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Q1. The charter of Georgia in America, when it was established in 1732, prohibited liquor and what else?

A
Cave dwellings
B
Private ownership of rifles
C
Crack cocaine
D
Slavery
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Q2. Which of these was not one of the "Three Fates" (or "Moirae") in Greek mythology?

A
Lachesis
B
Clotho
C
Athos
D
Atropos
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Q3. According to Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend, who, in Silene, Libya, saved a princess from a dragon by capturing it, and then led it to the king, promising to kill it if his people converted to Christianity?

A
Saint George
B
Saint Michael
C
Saint Patrick
D
Saint Andrew
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Q4. What was the reason behind the name given to the theory about cold episodes in Earth's history between 2.4 billion years ago and 650 million years ago?

A
Earth is thought to have become almost completely frozen
B
Snowball fighting became a recognised international sport
C
People drank a lot of advocaat cocktails
D
Flourishing global growth of Viburnum opulus Sterile
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Q5. Three Americans, artist Samuel F. B. Morse, physicist Joseph Henry, and machinist and inventor Alfred Vail, developed what in the 1830s?

A
An electrical telegraph system
B
A type of chair for cinemas
C
A stockbroker's code
D
A ball for basketball
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Q6. Three weeks after the USSR launched the first man into space what did the USA launch, with its first manned space flight?

A
Mercury-Redstone 3
B
MR-2
C
Freedom 6
D
Friendship 7
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Q7. The Treaty of Punakha, signed in 1910, was an agreement between British India and which other country, guaranteeing British advice in foreign policy in exchange for internal autonomy?

A
Singapore
B
Burma (Myanmar)
C
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
D
Bhutan
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