General Knowledge Quiz for 16 May 2010
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1
Who was president of the USA during the American Civil War?
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2
Which sport was developed in 1895 when the Rugby Union refused to allow professionalism?
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3
What is the first line of the speech by the 3 witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth that ends "toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble"?
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4
What is the name of the prehistoric figure, of a man holding a club, that is carved into the chalk near Dorchester, England?
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5
Primogeniture is the method by which, for example, land passes from a farmer who dies intestate to his eldest son. What is the name of the method whereby the land is divided between all of the sons?
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6
Mt Rushmore is near which US city?
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Charleston, North Carolina
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7
Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are the moons of which planet?
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