General Knowledge Quiz for 4 July 2009
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1
What is "A" in the International Radio Alphabet?
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2
Viewed from Earth, Venus crosses the sun twice every hundred years or so, about 8 years apart. The last was on 8 June 2004. When is the next?
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3
Who was physician to James I and Charles I, and whose chief discovery was the circulation of the blood, which he published in 1628?
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4
Where did Sherlock Holmes lose his struggle with Moriarty but did not die after all?
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5
What is the maximum number of individual players for Ludo?
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6
What is the oldest existing lighthouse in America, built in 1764?
A
Boston Light, Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts
B
Sandy Hook Lighthouse, New Jersey
C
Charleston Light, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
D
Morris Island Light, South Carolina
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7
The Union Jack, the British flag, is a combination of flags of different saints. Where does the blue come from?
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