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General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 29 July 2024

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Q1. The .44 Magnum was made famous by which fictional policeman?

A
Inspector Morse
B
Hercule Poirot
C
Dirty Harry
D
Officer Jonathan "Jon" Baker
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Q2. What is the name for the numbers in the sequence 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, 66, 78 ….?

A
Simplex numbers
B
Triangular numbers
C
Fibonacci numbers
D
Pascal numbers
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Q3. "Mate" is a technical call in the course of which game?

A
Rugby football
B
Cribbage
C
Chess
D
Polo
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Q4. The harsh Yuma Desert lies to the east of which river?

A
Orange River, Lesotho
B
Colorado River, USA
C
Songhua River, China
D
Ebro River, Spain
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Q5. What word means the judgement (using analysis and evaluation) of the merits and faults of the actions or work of another individual, which now has an implication of an expression of disapproval?

A
Nepotism
B
Syllogism
C
Criticism
D
Aphorism
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Q6. Which of these is an American bandmaster and composer of marches such as "Stars and Stripes Forever"?

A
John Philip Sousa
B
Irving Berlin
C
Leonard Bernstein
D
George Gershwin
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Q7. The Emperor Charlemagne famously clashed with the Basques in 778 CE in which of these?

A
The plains of Agincourt
B
The valley between the Fedyukhin Heights and the Causeway Heights, Crimea
C
Pass of Roncevaux, the Pyrenees
D
Waterloo
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