General Knowledge Quiz for 27 July 2010
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1
The "pre-Raphaelite movement" was about what?
B
Separation of church and state
D
The right to full representation in parliament
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2
Bishops Hugh Latimer & Nicholas Ridley, and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer were tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake. By what name are they collectively known?
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3
What was a negative term US Southerners gave to Northerner speculators in the South soon after the Civil War?
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4
What name is given to notes of the same pitch, but written differently, such as Db / C# and Gb / F#?
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5
What attaches muscles to bone?
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6
"The World Series" has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional players of which sport in the USA and Canada since 1903?
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7
The worst three natural disasters in recorded history (excluding disease and famine) in terms of the number of people killed, have occurred in which country?
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