General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 22 January 2015
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Question 1: Benjamin Caunt (1815-1861) from Nottinghamshire, England's heavy weight champion boxer 1838-1845 although his fights occasionally suffered claims of fouls, is popularly supposed to have been the source of what name?
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B
Big Ben, the bell hung in 1858 in the clock in Westminster
The village of Caunton in Nottinghamshire
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Benzene, first isolated and named 1825-1845
D
Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" (1843) by Charles Dickens