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General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 16 October 2023

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Q1. Famous in NBA Basketball, Michael Jordan first retired in 1993 to develop a career in what?

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Baseball
B
Water polo
C
High jump
D
Go-kart racing
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Q2. Apart from his partnership with Sir Arthur Sullivan in musicals, Sir W. S. Gilbert wrote several plays. What was the central character in his last play "The Hooligan, A Character Study" (1911)?

A
The leader of a troupe of actors who take political power
B
A young Cockney murderer in prison awaiting execution
C
A renegade accountant
D
A young peer turned boardroom pirate
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Q3. Which UK TV series , based on a 1939 novel by Rumer Godden and starring Gemma Arterton, Alessandro Nivola, Aisling Franciosi, Jim Broadbent and Gina McKee, also starred Diana Rigg in one of her last performances?

A
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017)
B
Victoria (2017)
C
Black Narcissus (2020)
D
Moley (2021)
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Q4. Traditionally, the Nukak live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers, in which country?

A
Chile
B
Argentina
C
Colombia
D
Mexico
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Q5. In the USA, the Tav HaYosher is a certification mark offered to establishments that do what?

A
Take leadership roles in social justice campaigns
B
Provide medical care
C
Serve kosher food and treat their workers fairly
D
Make loans to support entrepreneurs worldwide and combat poverty
Select from the options above.
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Q6. In 2022, as a response to Russia's full invasion of Ukraine at the beginning of the year, the remaining (what...) separated from their lingering ties with Russia and Moscow?

A
The Cherkasy Oblast nature reserves
B
Ukrainian Orthodox Churches (Moscow Patriarchy)
C
Business relations in export to Russia of aluminium oxide
D
International Red Cross
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Q7. The work of mathematician and cosmographer, Pedro Nunes (1502-1578), was the first to propose what for navigators?

A
A method of precise measure of latitude
B
The loxodromic curve
C
The traverse board
D
Charts for mapping winds and currents
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