General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 23 August 2025

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Question 1: A commentator in 1835 in England described two men at their first meeting as, variously, "full of trickery and treachery - he has no ethics" and "as deadly and as poisonous as a rattlesnake with about the same ethics"; what were they doing together?