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QUIZ 24 – General Knowledge

1 The American G.I. Chris Scott is a major character in which musical?

2 The “Radiant Baby” was the trademark of which US street artist (1958–90)?

3 Which general created and first hoisted Argentina’s national flag?

4 Who is the only canine member of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five?

5 According to Sir John Seeley, what was “acquired in a fit of absence of mind”?

6 In 1885, what was first tested on the nine-year-old boy Joseph Meister?

7 Symantec is the world’s largest maker of what type of software?

8 Which Elvis Presley hit was simply O Sole Mio with a new lyric?

9 What symbol links the flags of Vietnam, Somalia and Suriname?

10 In which play does Martin Dysart evaluate the boy Alan Strang?

11 Rosemarie Frankland was the first British winner of which title?

12 Shark Tank is the American version of which BBC Two show?

13 Which Allen Ginsberg poem opens: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”?

14 In geology, what term is used for soil at or below the freezing point of water for two or more years?

15 Which Dutch company is Europe’s largest brewer?

16 Which Irish province has the greatest number of native Irish speakers?

17 Which Old Testament book contains both the shortest and longest chapters in the Bible?

18 Nicknamed ‘The Bayonne Bleeder’, which boxer claims to have inspired the film Rocky?

19 Which French alpine skier won the first two overall World Cup titles, in 1967 and 1968?

20 Name the pictured knife –


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