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General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 21 November 2023

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Q1. What is one of the keystones of current biological theory, concerned with heritable change in successive generations of animals, plants and other living things?

A
Gene theory
B
Anthropology
C
Demography
D
Evolution
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Q2. Issei is a Japanese term used by Japanese in countries in North America, South America and Australia to describe what?

A
The government
B
The original native inhabitants
C
Japanese people who were first to immigrate
D
The lost homeland
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Q3. Inspector Morse of the TV series (1987-2000) of the same name was very reticent about his first name; the name eventually revealed then became the title of a prequel, but what was it?

A
Endeavour
B
Sam
C
Maximilian
D
Signal
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Q4. Which of these was a US scientist who won a Nobel prize in both 1954 and 1962?

A
Ernest Rutherford
B
J. Robert Oppenheimer
C
Albert Einstein
D
Linus Pauling
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Q5. The Volga Delta, at the mouth of the Volga River, is on the shore of what?

A
Sea of Azov
B
Black Sea
C
Lake Baikal
D
Caspian Sea
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Q6. In the first 140 years since the cricket tournaments known as The Ashes began in 1882-3, which side has won the trophy most?

A
Pakistan
B
England
C
West Indies
D
Australia
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Q7. When Britain fought the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the forces it opposed were from France and which other country?

A
Spain
B
Italy
C
Prussia
D
Holland
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