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General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 2 September 2023

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Q1. What is a word for a long piece of wood?

A
Beam
B
Grin
C
Frown
D
Scowl
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Q2. What city was not known to the Western world until 1812, when it was discovered by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt and described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a sonnet by John William Burgon?

A
Petra
B
Cheops
C
Babylon
D
Atlantis
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Q3. A car bomb which was detonated in 2002 in Karachi, one of a series of attacks believed to be directed at Westerners, caused the cancellation of what national event in Pakistan?

A
National kite-flying contest
B
Commissioning of Pakistan's new Agosta 90B-class submarine
C
Mourning for the dead in a major earthquake in northern Pakistan
D
A tour by the New Zealand national cricket team
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Q4. Hebrew Noah, Babylonian Atrahasis and Sumerian Ziusudra were all known in their respective Epics for having which common preoccupation?

A
Competition sport
B
Marital disharmony
C
Home brewing
D
An overwhelming flood
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Q5. What is Marchalina hellenica?

A
A scale insect
B
A spider
C
A beetle
D
A millipede
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Q6. During the production of the Disney animated feature "Fantasia", what nickname was given by the animation department to the unnamed sorcerer in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment?

A
Abracadabra
B
Yen Sid
C
Gandalf
D
Pluto
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Q7. Which band performed at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia in 2009 and in the halftime show of the Super Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida in 2010?

A
The Who
B
Green Day
C
R E M
D
U2
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