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QUIZ 87 – General Knowledge

1 Which Converse trainer is the biggest selling basketball shoe of all time?

2 What is the most populous city in Oceania?

3 Which Azerbaijani singer (1942–2008) was dubbed the “King of Songs” and the “Soviet Sinatra”?

4 The GRU is which country’s largest foreign intelligence agency?

5 Which species of bustard is the world’s heaviest flying bird?

6 The tourist resort of Magaluf is on which island?

7 Which animal features in the logo of the drink Jägermeister?

8 The actress Lillie Langtry was the mistress of which king?

9 Luis A. Ferré is credited with saving which Frederic Leighton painting from oblivion?

10 Isla Nublar, a fictional island off Costa Rica’s west coast, is the setting for which 1993 film?

11 Which 1937 self-help book by Napoleon Hill has sold over 70 million copies?

12 Which chemical compound is also known as caustic soda or lye?

13 Which company made the Panhead and the Shovelhead motorcycle engines?

14 Fronted by Dan Smith, which band had a 2013 hit single with Pompeii?

15 Jacques de Molay was the last Grand Master of which religious military order?

16 Which cosmetics brand, founded in 1834, uses the motto “Get the London Look”?

17 Which former England cricket captain published The Art of Captaincy (1985)?

18 Tam Samson’s Elegy by Robert Burns is about a player of which winter sport?

19 Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. debuted for which NFL team in 2014?

20 Name the pictured dinosaur –


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