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General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 28 January 2025

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Q1. What is a dropsonde?

A
The plop of a raindrop
B
A weather meter dropped from an aircraft
C
Aerial attack by frogs
D
A particularly solid conker
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Q2. Whose last compositions, written in 1948 when the composer was 84, were called "Four Last Songs"?

A
Oscar Hammerstein II
B
Irving Berlin
C
Mstislav Rostropovich
D
Richard Strauss
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Q3. Menes in Egypt in the third millennium BCE is recognised as the first leader to do what?

A
Establish a standing army
B
Build a pyramid
C
Unite the Upper and Lower Nile in one kingdom
D
Go on a pilgrimage to Mecca
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Q4. The Australian Dolphins swimming team for which Summer Olympics had four members at least one of whose parents had also been an Olympian?

A
2020
B
2024
C
1984
D
2012
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Q5. What does the Latin abbreviation QED mean?

A
Because it is demonstrated
B
Which was to be demonstrated
C
Fast definition
D
That is the proof
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Q6. "Out of Africa" (1985), starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, is based loosely on the 1937 autobiography of a person from which country?

A
The UK
B
Germany
C
Denmark
D
Belgium
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Q7. Which of these countries does not have a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean?

A
Canada
B
Portugal
C
Kenya
D
Brazil
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