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General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 16 December 2022

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Q1. What is a veiner or V-tool used for?

A
Carving wood
B
Brain surgery
C
Splicing rope
D
Grafting plants
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Q2. Which of these railways is mainly in Russia?

A
Glacier Express
B
The Ghan
C
Trans-Siberian
D
The Coast Starlight
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Q3. Which 16th century German physician and botanist is also remembered in the name of a small flowering shrub, with flowers usually of vivid purple-red petals and deep red sepals?

A
John Tradescant the Elder
B
Leonhart Fuchs
C
Philibert Commerçon
D
Ernst Dieffenbach
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Q4. Which video game, the music for which was composed specially for the game, features composition by Nobuo Uematsu and includes work by Masashi Hamauzu, Hitoshi Sakimoto and Yoko Shimomura?

A
EverQuest
B
World of Warcraft
C
Final Fantasy
D
Portal 2
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Q5. Which of these is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide, which produces a reaction that is not explosive, but creates short bursts of high temperatures on a small area for a short period?

A
Thermite
B
Naphthalene
C
Chlorine
D
Sodium chloride
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Q6. Which phrase that first came to public attention as a U.S. television commercial for the Wendy's chain of hamburger restaurants in 1984 became associated with the 1984 U.S. presidential election when Walter Mondale ridiculed Gary Hart's candidacy?

A
Think
B
Where's the beef?
C
Who's Got Big Buns?
D
Low fat formula
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Q7. "Massacre in Korea", a 1951 expressionistic painting by Pablo Picasso which is seen as a criticism of American intervention in the Korean war is drawn from the painting "The Third of May 1808", which shows Napoleon's soldiers executing Spanish civilians, by whom?

A
Francisco Goya
B
El Greco
C
Henri Rousseau
D
Paul Gauguin
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