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General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 18 June 2015

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Q1. Which of these is a fighter plane used by the British air force during World War II?

A
Vomitfumes
B
Coughsmoke
C
Sneezeash
D
Spitfire
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Q2. The names of how many US states begin with "W"?

A
6
B
8
C
2
D
4
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Q3. What international movement has a pink triangle as its symbol?

A
Breast Cancer Foundation
B
Gay rights
C
Greenpeace
D
Amnesty International
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Q4. Who played Mrs Robinson in the 1967 film "The Graduate"?

A
Anne Bancroft
B
Katharine Ross
C
Katharine Hepburn
D
Vivien Leigh
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Q5. What is a highly magnetized, rotating, neutron star emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation that can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing towards the Earth (known as the lighthouse effect)?

A
Nebula
B
Pulsar
C
Nova
D
Red Dwarf
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Q6. Why did 66 nations, including the United States, Canada, West Germany and Japan, boycott the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow?

A
Cuban Missile Crisis
B
USSR's participation in the Afghan Civil War
C
USSR's refusal to remove the Berlin wall
D
USSR's bad behaviour at the UN General Assembly
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Q7. What is the setting for the John Carpenter film "Halloween"?

A
Amity Island
B
Bodega Bay
C
Haddonfield, Illinois
D
Black Lake, Maine
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