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Q1. What was the occupation of the character played by Maggie Smith in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"?

A
Parking attendant
B
Teacher
C
Author
D
Nurse
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Q2. Once the most famous clipper and the fastest, and profitable because of that speed, the UK's Cutty Sark, for over a decade from 1883 accelerated a major trade for Australia in what commodity?

A
Wool
B
Tea
C
Aluminium
D
Botanical specimens
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Q3. In which country has guerrilla warfare been waged to a greater or lesser extent for over 50 years by a group called FARC?

A
Spain
B
Brazil
C
Colombia
D
Sri Lanka
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Q4. How did the aftermath of World War I and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, affect the 1920 Olympic Games?

A
They provided a source of extra funding
B
They came close to cancelling the Games again
C
They almost resulted in cancellation of the proposed venues
D
They created new states, and sanctioned losers and perceived instigators of the War
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Q5. What is Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin best known for?

A
Inventing the guillotine
B
Proposing beheading as the humane death penalty in the French Revolution
C
Fine tuning the angled blade in the guillotine
D
Disposing of the corpses of those guillotined
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Q6. Which is one of the psychological challenges to emerge in the 21st century?

A
Behaviourism
B
Cyber-bullying
C
Functionalism
D
Cognitive science
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Q7. Which of these was the earliest type of road design to have a convex surface in all major roads?

A
Scottish
B
Ancient Roman
C
French
D
Greek
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