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QUIZ 28 – General Knowledge

1 First produced in 1981, what is Boeing’s largest single-aisle passenger aircraft?

2 Which Australian city is named after the Governor of New South Wales (1821–25)?

3 Which Roman god of love is the son of Venus and husband of Psyche?

4 The Australian continent has how many time zones?

5 The Hamilton-Norwood scale measures the progression of which male problem?

6 What is the largest inhabited castle in the world?

7 Raf Ravenscroft played the sax solo on which big 1978 hit?

8 Bakery chain Greggs opened during the 1930s in which city?

9 Louis Mountbatten opened which theme park on May 24, 1979?

10 Wilson Carlile founded which religious organisation in 1882?

11 Ernst Lindemann was killed in 1941 as the captain of which battleship?

12 Now extinct, the huia was which country’s largest species of wattlebird?

13 Robert Cornelius is credited with taking the first of which photos in 1839?

14 The internet abbreviation TL; DR stands for what?

15 Which Florentine museum houses Michelangelo’s sculptures Bacchus and Brutus?

16 Aqua regia is a mixture of which two acids?

17 Commonly found in American football players, which disease is known as CTE?

18 The horse Quiz won which Classic race in 1801?

19 Peter Oborne’s book Wounded Tiger is a history of cricket in which country?

20 Name the pictured star of musical theatre –


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