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General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 6 January 2022

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Q1. Which HBO Max sci-fi series set on the real planet Kepler-22b centres on artificial intelligence and religious belief?

Note: This question was updated in May 2023
A
Station Eleven
B
Peacemaker
C
Raised by Wolves
D
Infinity Train
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Q2. Voyages of exploration which stretched from 1492 to 1504 started with what purpose?

A
To travel from one pole to the other
B
To find a new and shorter route from Portugal to the Orient
C
Testing out a new type of sail
D
To give the crew extended holiday cruises
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Q3. What caused the eventual sinking of the Italian ship, MS Achille Lauro, hijacked in 1985 by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)?

A
A fierce storm when it was returning to Italy from Egypt after the hijack
B
Scuttled by the hijackers as they escaped
C
Mined by the US military after an American passenger was killed in the hijack negotiations
D
A fire in the engine room nine years later, in 1994, when one of the boilers exploded
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Q4. Where are the headquarters of the World Curling Federation?

A
Ottawa, Canada
B
Perth Scotland
C
Bern, Switzerland
D
Stockholm, Sweden
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Q5. Fingerprints come in three basic patterns. Which of these is not one of them?

A
Arches
B
Loops
C
Whorls
D
Turns
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Q6. Who wrote the music for the award-winning 1961 musical film for which Steven Spielberg directed a re-make in 2021?

A
Leonard Bernstein
B
Stephen Sondheim
C
George Gershwin
D
Aaron Copland
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Q7. What are the first words of the hymn written by Henry Francis Lyte in 1847 that continues "Fast falls the Eventide"?

A
Onward Christian soldiers
B
Away in a manger
C
Silent night, holy night
D
Abide with me
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