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Wildcard Quiz #570

Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 21 December 2019

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Q1. Which of these teaches: that the religions of the world come from the same source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God, and there is need to find a unifying vision of the future of society and of the nature and purpose of life?

A
The Girl Guide Movement
B
Freemasons
C
The Bahá'í faith
D
Sikhism
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Q2. Where are krugerrands legal tender?

A
South Africa
B
Australia
C
The Netherlands
D
The USA
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Q3. What is the first line of the hymn "Jerusalem"?

A
Good King Wenceslas looked out
B
Oh come all ye faithful
C
Once in royal David's city
D
And did those feet in ancient time
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Q4. When C.B.C. Sales Film Corporation changed its name in 1924 to Columbia Pictures, what did the logo they developed show?

A
A Roman soldier with a wreath on her head, a shield, and in her right hand an ear of wheat
B
A woman wearing a headdress, draped Roman dress and US flag, and carrying a torch
C
A woman in draperies on a pedestal, with a torch but without headdress and flag
D
A sunburst
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Q5. What name is given to a style of journalism that is written subjectively, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative?

A
Fozzie
B
Gonzo
C
Rizzo
D
Scooter
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Q6. The phrase "the father of the nation" is an example of … what?

A
Gerund
B
Simile
C
Litotes
D
Metaphor
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Q7. Sid Baker, in his book "The Australian Language", suggests that a derogatory word used in Australasia to refer to a young person who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviour was a contraction of the name of which fictional race which appears in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift?

A
Lilliputian
B
Houyhnhnm
C
Brobdingnagian
D
Blefuscus
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