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Q1. What actor, then a lieutenant in the British Highland Light Infantry, after being placed under close arrest for insubordination escaped from a first-floor window, went to the USA and made 97 films until 1983?

A
Douglas Fairbanks
B
Errol Flynn
C
David Niven
D
Laurence Olivier
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Q2. The last stretch of the first railway line across the USA, from the East Coast to San Francisco via Omaha and to the north of Salt Lake City, was completed in what year?

A
1840
B
1869
C
1880
D
1900
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Q3. What is a set of table top games simulating team sports such as football (soccer), cricket, both rugby and hockey, and closely associated with soccer, which for many years was marketed as "the replica of Association Football"?

A
Subbuteo
B
Sususulio
C
Bushido
D
Hokkaidō
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Q4. Which of these was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist who did not begin his career as an artist until he was about 27 and committed suicide at the age of 37, yet produced more than 2,000 pieces, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, including portraits, landscapes, and sunflowers?

A
Van Morrison
B
Vincent van Gogh
C
Van Halen
D
Van Dyke Parks
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Q5. The black caiman, the largest living of its species, is found in which parts of South America?

A
In the Amazon basin
B
In the Pantanal
C
Throughout Argentina
D
In the mountain rivers of Colombia
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Q6. Which of these is an acute fatal disease of the nervous system characterised by hallucinations and paralysis?

A
Ebola
B
Trypanosomiasis
C
Rabies
D
Tuberculosis
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Q7. Which of these is used for colouring hair?

A
Grammar
B
Senna
C
Ravenna
D
Henna
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