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Q1. American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes is credited with developing what?

A
The Voree Record
B
The QWERTY sequence for typing
C
Headphone jacks
D
The steam drill
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Q2. Whose autobiography was entitled "Step Inside Love"?

A
Cilla Black
B
Lulu
C
Dusty Springfield
D
Xaveria Hollander
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Q3. Which former General and President of South Vietnam resigned and left for Taiwan 9 days before South Vietnam unconditionally surrendered on 30 April, 1975, handing power to his Vice President?

A
Ho Chi Minh
B
Trần Văn Hương
C
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
D
Nguyễn Dinh Thuan
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Q4. Who wrote the music for the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrushka", and "The Rite of Spring"?

A
Rimsky-Korsakov
B
Prokofiev
C
Stravinsky
D
Tchaikovsky
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Q5. A spinoff from the BBC TV series "The Thick of It" was which 2009 film, also starring Peter Capaldi?

A
In the Loop
B
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
C
Up in the Air
D
Lovely Bones
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Q6. Which of these was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb?

A
Thomas Edison
B
Thomas Jefferson
C
Thomas da Tankengine
D
Thomas More
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Q7. Who directed Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling in the 1990 comedy horror "The Witches"?

A
Nicolas Roeg
B
Peter Weir
C
Jonathan Glazer
D
Henry Selick
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