General Knowledge Quiz for 21 March 2009
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1
What is the word commonly thought to mean "a morbid fear of open spaces"?
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2
Which of these was not a son of Noah, the chap in the Bible with the ark?
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3
Who set the record for winning the World Snooker Championship the most times (7) in 1999?
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4
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and New Orleans, Louisiana, what is the name for the day called Shrove Tuesday in Ireland and the UK where it is celebrated with pancakes?
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5
Which Greek mathematician, who lived in the 1st century BC, is best known for the theorem which bears his name and for leading a group who discovered square numbers and proposed that the earth was round, that planets have an axis, and that they travel aro
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6
The songs "Almost Like Being In Love" and "Come To Me, Bend To Me" are from which musical?
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7
The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what?
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