Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 14 March 2009
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1
Which of these is a portmanteau word?
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2
What is the name of the system whereby a number of persons subscribe to an invested fund which becomes the property of the last survivor?
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3
What word refers to a note whose pitch is not a member of the scale indicated by the key signature?
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4
What American Indian word was used to describe the first international Boy Scout rally held at Olympia, London, in 1920?
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5
What is a legal defence for being somewhere other than at the scene of a crime?
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6
How many semitones are there in an octave?
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7
Which of these was not one of the three members of the EU to replace their national currency with the euro in 1999?
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