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General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 9 January 2012

A new general knowledge quiz is available every day. Try today's quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.

Question 1: John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby, operational from 1721, is generally acknowledged as being the first what?

A
Company to hire women
B
Water-powered machine
C
Workplace to recognise a union
D
Factory