General Knowledge Quiz for 1 January 2010
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1
Matt Damon played which role in a trilogy of films about an amnesiac who also suffers from PTSD who is attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA to track him down and arrest or kill him?
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2
Which of these was a very successful German fighter pilot in World War I who was shot down and killed on the Somme in 1918?
C
Baron Manfred von Richtofen
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3
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the world's oldest and most famous cricket club (founded in 1787), is based where?
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4
What is the Mufti of Jerusalem?
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5
What is the term for a period of isolation to prevent the spread of disease?
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6
The Belgian Revolution, that began after a performance at the Brussels opera in 1830, led to the secession of the Southern provinces of which kingdom to establish an independent Kingdom of Belgium?
B
United Kingdom of the Netherlands
C
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
D
The Kingdom of Portugal
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7
What was the capital city of Russia from 1712 to 1918?
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