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General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 13 January 2022

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Q1. In October 2021, what was the name of the Facebook app changed to?

A
Meta
B
It was not changed
C
Metaverse
D
Metamet
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Q2. France's often controversial Petit Saut Dam was built on what river?

A
River Creuse, Indre, France
B
Sinnamary River, French Guiana
C
Rivière de l'Est, Reunion Island
D
Yaté River, New Caledonia
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Q3. Who were sandwiched in 2021 between the border forces of Poland and Lithuania on one side and those of Belarus on the other?

A
Students on an orientation day parade
B
A convention of political scientists
C
Migrants and refugees from a variety of other countries
D
Some puzzled hedgehogs
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Q4. Which pianist, philosophy and public affairs major, and investment banker started a political party and was elected President of France just over 12 months later?

A
Jacques Chirac
B
Nicholas Sarkozy
C
Emmanuel Macron
D
Georges Pompidou
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Q5. Which of these is part of a television set?

A
Hard drive
B
Differential
C
Cavity magnetron
D
Receiver
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Q6. Of which book did its author say: “I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change.”?

A
Thank You, Jeeves
B
Three Men in a Boat
C
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
D
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Q7. Which small country won its only Olympic gold medals since it first participated in 1936, at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, USA?

A
Vatican City
B
Monaco
C
San Marino
D
Liechtenstein
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