General Knowledge Quiz for 2 January 2010
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1
At the time of her construction in 2003, what was the longest, widest, tallest, largest passenger ship ever built?
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2
The term "coalition of the willing", to describe military and / or humanitarian interventions for which the UN Security Council cannot agree to mount a full UN peacekeeping operation, was not applied to which of these?
A
The Australian-led INTERFET operation in East Timor
C
The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003
D
Possible operations against North Korea during the 1994 stand-off over nuclear weapons
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3
The islands Bouganville, Buka, Ysabel, Choisculi, Guadalcanal, Malaita and South Christobal are in which group?
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4
What striking and fielding team game, originating in England and known in Ireland as cluiche corr, is played between two teams alternating between batting and fielding and involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round bat and then running around four bases in order to score?
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5
Which astronomer, born in West Yorkshire, England in 1915 and dying in 2001 in Bournemouth, England, was a science fiction writer, whose output includes the novel "The Black Cloud", a TV series "A for Andromeda" and a play "Rockets in Ursa Major"?
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6
What is the name given to the the planet Venus when it appears in the West after sunset?
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7
How old was Kurt Cobain when he died?
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