General Knowledge Quiz for 30 May 2010
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1
What part of mainland Europe was English territory for 200 years from the mid 14th century?
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2
In which country is Lake Como?
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3
A
Impulses sent to the brain
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4
What is the name for a loose mock-biographical quatrain such as "When Alexander Pope / Accidentally trod on the soap / And came down on the back of his head / Never mind what he said"?
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5
Which of these is a play by Oscar Wilde?
A
The Irrelevance of Being Algernon
B
The Importance of Being Earnest
C
The Consequences of Being Roger
D
The Result of Being George
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6
Most of which of these games is spent handling "tiles"?
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7
Who was an 8 year old English girl murdered on 24 August 1867 by solicitor's clerk Frederick Baker in Alton, Hampshire: the body was found in a hop field, her head and legs severed, her eyes put out, her torso emptied and her organs scattered?
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