General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 23 August 2014

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Question 1: Who was instrumental in defeating the Mahdi at Omdurman in 1898, and was British Secretary for War from 1914 until he died on the cruiser "Hampshire" when it struck a mine on 5 June 1916?