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General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 8 February 2025

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Q1. In the 2015 World Rowing Championships which country was not in the top four medal winners in the table of medals won?

A
USA
B
New Zealand
C
Great Britain
D
Germany
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Q2. What name is given to an American whiskey, a type of distilled spirit, made primarily from corn and named for a county in Kentucky?

A
Habsburg
B
Medici
C
Bourbon
D
Poteen
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Q3. Until 1965, it was thought that which planet was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and keeping the same face directed towards the Sun at all times, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth?

A
Mercury
B
Saturn
C
Jupiter
D
Earth
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Q4. Which celebrated athlete joined figure skating great Hanyu Yuzuru on the ice in his "Notte Stellata" in 2023?

A
Speed skater Park Ji-won
B
Figure skater Christopher Dean
C
Artistic gymnast Kōhei Uchimura
D
Figure skater Shoma Uno
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Q5. What was the sack of Béziers in 1209 CE?

A
Jewels and gold brought back from China and India
B
A prominent vintage of the wine known as sack
C
A type of body bag used during the Bubonic Plague
D
The first major military action of Pope Innocent III's Albigensian Crusade
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Q6. In England, what is commonly known as "The Old Bailey"?

A
A brand of cream liqueur
B
The Central Criminal Court
C
The London Metropolitan Police
D
One's wife (in cockney slang)
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Q7. The 2011 US crime drama TV series "The Killing" was based on a work created by whom?

A
Henning Mankell
B
Veena Sud
C
Søren Sveistrup
D
Stieg Larsson
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