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Wildcard Quiz #287

Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 19 July 2014

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Q1. In the music industry, what does an A & R man do?

A
Looks after accommodation and refreshments
B
Looks after amplifiers, road managers and technical crew
C
Monitors levels of affect and response in the audience
D
Looks after artists and repertoire
Select from the options above.
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Q2. Where would "SCRAM" be used?

A
To deter a streaker on a sports field
B
In monitoring of alcohol offenders
C
In an 18th century slave market
D
To deploy fighter aircraft rapidly to meet an incoming threat
Select from the options above.
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Q3. Issei is a Japanese term used by Japanese in countries in North America, South America and Australia to describe what?

A
The government
B
The original native inhabitants
C
Japanese people who were first to immigrate
D
The lost homeland
Select from the options above.
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Q4. If someone holds their breath, chokes, or in some other way suspends external breathing, the term is what?

A
Anaerobia
B
Apnoea
C
Eupnoea
D
Alveolic failure
Select from the options above.
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Q5. Scribes from Roman times to the Middle Ages and later used a technique to maximise the use of precious writing material. Which of these describes one result?

A
Parching
B
Palimpsest
C
Papyrograph
D
Palingenesis
Select from the options above.
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Q6. It is traditionally distilled from malted barley, grain, potatoes or whey and is one of the strongest alcoholic beverages in the world. What is it?

A
Moonshine
B
Hooch
C
Vodka
D
Poitin
Select from the options above.
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Q7. Outstanding work of lasting literary merit giving evidence of consistent idealism on some significant level is recognised by the annual Nobel Prize in Literature, one of only six Nobel prizes. What was the first novel published by the most recent American recipient (as at 2015)?

Note: This question was updated in February 2024
A
The Bluest Eye by Dr Toni Morrison
B
Hike and the Aeroplane by Sinclair Lewis
C
Elegy for John Donne and Other Poems by Joseph Brodsky
D
The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Select from the options above.
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