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Q1. Prior to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran was ruled by whom?

A
King Salman
B
Saddam Hussein
C
Muammar al-Gaddafi
D
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
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Q2. Whom did the 19th century grave robbers and murderers Burke and Hare supply the bodies to?

A
Scottish comparative anatomist and extramural teacher in anatomy John Barclay
B
Scottish anatomist, surgeon and lecturer Robert Knox
C
British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and antiseptics pioneer Joseph Lister
D
Scottish obstetrician Sir James Young Simpson
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Q3. What politician or world leader is co-author of the book ‘Judo: History, Theory, Practice' (2004)?

A
Golda Meir
B
David Cameron
C
Ban Ki-Moon
D
Vladimir Putin
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Q4. What English folk singer, songwriter, and musician whose primary musical instruments are the violin, the tenor guitar, the banjo and the viola, was brought up in the village of Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, produced 4 solo studio albums ("The Punch Bowl", "Kitty Jay", "Freedom Fields" & "Poor Man's Heaven") between 2002 and 2008, and in February 2007 won Singer of the Year and Best Album awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards?

A
Seth Lakeman
B
Ozzy Osbourne
C
Billy Bragg
D
Robert Plant
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Q5. Which Welsh poet (e.g. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog") wrote a play "Under Milk Wood" that was published posthumously in 1954?

A
Dylan Thomas
B
Richard Burton
C
Tom Jones
D
Dai Morgan
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Q6. Which German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draughtsman and caricaturist became famous for his fairy stories and romantic novels, and for composing the opera "Undine"?

A
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
B
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
C
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
D
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
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Q7. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started what computer application?

A
Twitter
B
Facebook
C
Google
D
Yahoo!
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