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General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 12 August 2023

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Q1. On February 13 2008 the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, delivered a formal apology to the Stolen Generations. What was he referring to?

A
Descendants of people sent to Australia as convicts
B
Children who were expatriated from the UK during WW II and not returned
C
Children of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who were taken from their families 1909-1970
D
Children taken from single mothers in the 1950s and 1960s
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Q2. What tool contains a bubble to show accurate horizontal and vertical settings?

A
Spectre level
B
Spirit level
C
Ghost level
D
Ghoul level
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Q3. What is the full name of the organism found in abundance in the mammalian gut, and used as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant DNA, in early commercial work the bacterium of choice for cloning and mass-producing new materials?

A
Staphylococcus aureus
B
Enterococcus faecalis
C
Clostridium perfringens
D
Escherichia coli
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Q4. Which of these people was not assassinated in 1963?

A
Lord Louis Mountbatten, British admiral and former Governor-General of India
B
Sylvanus Olympio, first president of independent Togo
C
Medgar Evers, U.S. civil rights activist
D
John F. Kennedy, President of the USA
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Q5. Which US TV series premièred in 2018, starring (among others) Luke Grimes and Kelly Reilly, to growing critical acclaim?

A
Succession
B
The Rookie
C
Grown-ish
D
Yellowstone
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Q6. Otto Lilienthal was an inventor whose designs and practice led to the first practical what in the 1890s?

A
Helicopter
B
Propeller for powered flight
C
Steam turbine
D
Hang glider
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Q7. Where would be the best place to see the Andean Condor in its native environment?

A
Swiss Alps
B
California
C
Peru
D
Tibet
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