General Knowledge Quiz for 29 December 2009
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1
What is the name given to the silent electrical discharge between the atmosphere and, for example, trees, ships' masts, steeples and flagpoles?
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2
Joseph Smith is known as the founder of what movement?
C
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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3
Which of these was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, political activist and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005?
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4
Michael Keaton starred in which film as a spirit who makes a living from scaring people?
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5
At the opening ceremony of every Olympic Games when the athletes parade into the stadium, what is traditionally the first nation to enter, so as to honor the origins of the Olympics?
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6
Which monotheistic, Abrahamic religious movement accepts Haile Selassie I, the former and final Emperor of Ethiopia, as the incarnation of God, called Jah?
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7
Where are Southampton Island and King George Island?
B
Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada
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