General Knowledge Quiz for 28 February 2010
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1
Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII of England, is the great grandmother of which of these people?
A
Opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa
D
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
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2
What is an alternative name for a hydrolaccolith, a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic that can reach up to 70 metres (230 ft) in height and up to 600 m (2,000 ft) in diameter?
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3
What instrument consisting basically of a telescope that can be rotated vertically and horizontally on graduated scales was designed for use in land surveying for measuring by triangulation ?
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4
Who is quoted as saying "... advertising ... attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. ... Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little"?
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5
In 1821 Venezuelan Simon Bolivar became the first President, and, except for a brief retirement, remained so until his death in 1839, of which country?
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6
On 12 September 1995, the Belarusian air force shot down a gas balloon, killing two Americans, during a race for which trophy?
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7
Which of these is an alternative name for Santa Claus?
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