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General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 22 September 2017

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Q1. What are Omo I and Omo II, discovered by Richard Leakey in southern Ethiopia?

A
Homo sapiens fossils
B
Pyramids
C
Meteor craters
D
Previously unknown species of hyena
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Q2. What is the format for winning the World Chess Championships?

A
8-player double round-robin tournament
B
Single-elimination tournament with finals best-of-6 + tiebreaks
C
Best-of-12 + tiebreak
D
Best-of-24
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Q3. A type of behaviour characterised by living together in mutigenerational colonies headed by one productive female, cooperative brood care, individuals with specialised non-transferable skills, is known as what?

A
Hymenopteric
B
Parasociality
C
Eusociality
D
Batroid
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Q4. Who is the "I" in Roald Dahl's book "Danny, Champion of the World"?

A
Danny's coach
B
A pheasant
C
Danny's father
D
Danny
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Q5. Which of these statements is incorrect?

A
The square of an odd number is always an even number
B
The sum of two whole numbers, whether they are odd or even, is always a whole number
C
The sum of two numbers, where both are either odd or even, is always an even number
D
The sum of an even number and an odd number is always an odd number
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Q6. In the Greek pantheon, whose daughter was Panacea (the goddess of universal remedy)?

A
Poseidon
B
Socrates
C
Venus
D
Aesculapius
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Q7. Which river has its source in the Fuente de García, Aragon, near the Mediterranean and flows after 626 miles (1,007 km) across Spain and Portugal into the Atlantic?

A
Danube
B
Volga
C
Rhine
D
Tagus
Select from the options above.
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