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Q1. For what does Greek legend generally agree that Prometheus received eternal punishment?

A
Going AWOL
B
Getting blind drunk
C
Stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mankind
D
Tripping Zeus with a skipping rope
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Q2. Who founded "Answers" in 1888, and later founded Amalgamated Press in the UK which, at various times, owned "The Evening News", "The Daily Mail", "The Daily Mirror", "The Observer" and "The Times"?

A
Lord Northcliffe
B
Lord Beaverbrook
C
William Randolph Hearst
D
Rupert Murdoch
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Q3. Who wrote the "Discworld" series of books?

A
Margaret Mahy
B
Frank Herbert
C
Roald Dahl
D
Terry Pratchett
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Q4. Pope St. Victor I (reigning around 10 years at the end of the second century CE) was the first pope from where?

A
England
B
Rome
C
Africa
D
Spain
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Q5. Which Austrian performed the winning song, "Rise Like a Phoenix", at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014?

A
Conchita Wurst
B
Måns Zelmerlöw
C
The Makemakes
D
Ann Sophie
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Q6. James Boswell is best known for his biography of whom?

A
Thomas Edison
B
Benjamin Franklin
C
Robbie Williams
D
Samuel Johnson
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Q7. In 1920 the architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887 - 1965) adopted what pseudonym?

A
Le Corbusier
B
Viollet-le-Duc
C
Auguste Perret
D
Jean Nouvel
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