General Knowledge Quiz for 7 January 2010
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1
Which international treaties of 1899 and 1907 cover the use of weapons in war?
D
The Treaties of Utrecht
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2
Who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, which he proposed in "Stenographic Soundhand" in 1837?
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3
What medium had its first test with a recording of Richard Strauss's "Eine Alpensinfonie" by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan in 1981, and its first commercial pressing with "The Visitors" by ABBA a year later?
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4
Which of these people have never been a US Open Golf champion?
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5
Which of these countries is an island nation?
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6
"A Little Night Music" by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler and Harold Prince, was based on which 1955 film directed by Ingmar Bergman?
A
Smiles Of A Summer Night
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7
Which of these is a form of heavy sword with one cutting edge, that is usually curved towards the point?
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