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General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 5 May 2023

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Q1. On 30 August 2012 NASA launched Radiation Belt Storm probes to look at the two doughnut-shaped Van Allen radiation belts of high energy particles encircling the Earth. Three days after the launch they discovered what?

A
The main probe sensors failed
B
The magnetic field holding the belts in place showed a weak point, which strengthened a week later
C
The proportion of alpha particles in the belts was increasing
D
A third belt
Select from the options above.
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Q2. Which golfer released the song "All My Exes Wear Rolexes" in 2002?

A
Notah Begay
B
Fred Funk
C
John Daly
D
Joel Edwards
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Q3. Which river runs through the cities of Basel, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Arnhem, Utrecht and Rotterdam?

A
Tay
B
Po
C
Rhine
D
Seine
Select from the options above.
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Q4. What is a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offence against it to the positions of innocent people?

A
Amnesty
B
Pardon
C
Grant of impunity
D
Absolution
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Q5. In Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" the Barrister dreams he sees a Snark defending a case where the defendant was what or who?

A
A weevil
B
A bat
C
A pig
D
A donkey
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Q6. Who was the first woman to walk in space as well as, 36 years later, to reach the deepest known spot in the ocean?

A
Sally Ride
B
Kathy Sullivan
C
Valentina Tereshkova
D
Svetlana Savitskaya
Select from the options above.
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Q7. Although Chinese emperors had kept a fleet, when needed for waging coastal wars and invading neighbouring lands, when did they first establish a standing navy?

A
1865
B
Late 14th century
C
Early 12th century
D
1924
Select from the options above.
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