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General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 3 November 2023

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Q1. The city of Las Vegas is in which US state?

A
Texas
B
California
C
Nevada
D
Arizona
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Q2. When Denis Potter's "Brimstone and Treacle", originally a TV play starring Michael Kitchen, was made into a film and released in 1982, Kitchen's role was then played by whom?

A
Jim Carter
B
John Simm
C
Jeremy Irons
D
Sting
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Q3. The annual international cheese-rolling contest at the steep Cooper's Hill in England involves rolling downhill what kind and size of cheese?

A
Wensleydale, 16 lb round
B
Caerphilly, 10 kg round
C
Double Gloucester, 9 lb round
D
Camembert, 9 lb round
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Q4. Akhenaten ruled in which country?

A
Morocco
B
Mongolia
C
Egypt
D
Arabia
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Q5. A social experiment conducted with a hoax film star in a shopping mall in Virginia, USA, in April 2012 and posted online, concerned what?

A
Speed and reach of social media contacts
B
People apply different standards of behaviour to film stars
C
Mass suggestibility, particularly as it relates to celebrities
D
Techniques of crowd control
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Q6. What does the SI unit "Pascal" measure?

A
Heat
B
Force
C
Mass
D
Pressure
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Q7. Who was the US president at the time of the Black Tuesday Wall Street Crash?

A
Bill Clinton
B
Richard Nixon
C
Herbert Hoover
D
Teddy Roosevelt
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