General Knowledge Quiz for 26 March 2009
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1
Which Beatle played "Youngman Grand" in "The Magic Christian" 1969, with Peter Sellers?
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2
What military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders of Armies in Japan ended when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office in 1867?
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3
Woody Guthrie, tired of radio overplaying Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", wrote a song in 1940 now known as … what?
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4
What is produced by the cortex of supra-renal glands that stimulates the autonomic nervous system?
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5
Which mountain range crosses North Africa for over 1500 miles from Cape Nun on the Atlantic Coast to Cape Bon on the Mediterranean?
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6
Which is the participle in the sentence "he brought the documents required"?
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7
Why did 66 nations, including the United States, Canada, West Germany and Japan, boycott the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow?
B
USSR's participation in the Afghan Civil War
C
USSR's refusal to remove the Berlin wall
D
USSR's bad behaviour at the UN General Assembly
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