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1. What was the fabled city of gold that some 16th-century Europeans believed existed in South America?
a) Shangri La
b) Aconcagua
c) Atahualpa
d) El Dorado
2. How many players comprise an Australian Rules football team?
a) 15
b) 18
c) 13
d) 11
3. What were the names of the successive acts to regulate the entry into the UK of British subjects from the Commonwealth?
a) Enclosure Laws
b) Reform Acts
c) Navigation Acts
d) Commonwealth Immigration Acts
4. Which region of the Adriatic coast, having the capital Split, has given its name to a popular breed of dog?
a) Rottweiler
b) Dachsund
c) Alsatia
d) Dalmatia
5. Who wrote the words `All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.`?
a) T E Lawrence
b) William Shakespeare
c) Edward Fitzgerald
d) Jane Austen
6. Cymru is the name of which country in its own language?
a) Brittany
b) Iceland
c) Wales
d) Ireland
7. Which of the following was not part of the League of Nations?
a) The Permanent Court of Justice
b) The Privy Council
c) The Assembly
d) The Council
8. Who said `Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.`?
a) Horace Greeley
b) `Wild Bill` Hickok
c) Wyatt Earp
d) Theodore Roosevelt
9. Which city 40 miles north of London in eastern England is centred on a university founded in the 12th century?
a) Norwich
b) Cambridge
c) Ipswich
d) Sandringham
10. Who said `As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see `the River Tiber foaming with much blood`.`?
a) Benjamin Disraeli
b) Sir Oswald Mosley
c) Enoch Powell
d) Viscount Melbourne
11. What other name is given to the Stars and Stripes, the flag of the USA?
a) The Confederate Flag
b) Old Glory
c) The Union Flag
d) The Liberty Banner
12. What colour is the cross on the national flag of Switzerland?
a) White
b) Yellow
c) Blue
d) Red
13. What fertile lowland plain borders the Firth of Tay, Scotland?
a) Carse of Sidlaw
b) Carse of Gowrie
c) Arbroath Flats
d) Sidlaw Flats
14. What was the dukedom bestowed on Philip Mountbatten on 19 November 1947, the day before his wedding?
a) Edinburgh
b) Norfolk
c) Cornwall
d) Hampshire
15. What name is given to the unsuccessful uprising led by Adolf Hitler 1923 in an attempt to overthrow the government of Bavaria?
a) Augsburger putsch
b) July Plot
c) Night of the Long Knives
d) Munich beer-hall putsch
16. In which Canadian city is Laval University?
a) Québec
b) Toronto
c) Montréal
d) Ottawa
17. Which playwright, whose plays include A Streetcar Named Desire, set most of his works in the Deep South of the USA?
a) Eugene O'Neill
b) Thornton Wilder
c) Tennessee Williams
d) Arthur Miller
18. What was a principal battle of the Spanish Civil War 24 July-18 Nov 1938, in the vicinity of Gandesa, about 40 km/25 mi south of Lerida?
a) Peninsular war
b) Battle of Ebro
c) Madrid Riots
d) Revolt of Saint-Domingue
19. Which city was capital of the Soviet Union and is now the capital of Russia?
a) Leningrad
b) Kremlin
c) Moscow
d) Tomsk
20. The Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, off the coast of East Africa, is part of which country?
a) Tanzania
b) Ethiopia
c) Madagascar
d) Kenya
21. In which American city is Harvard University located?
a) Richmond
b) Evansville
c) Cambridge
d) Providence
22. Which Indian political party was founded 1885 as the Indian National Congress?
a) National 1885 Party
b) National Party
c) Indian Congress Party
d) Congress Party
23. In US history, which legislative proposals were designed to resolve the sectional conflict between North and South over the admission of California to the Union 1850?
a) The Union Compromise
b) Californian Compromise
c) Compromise of 1850
d) North-South Compromise
24. Which game, developed from basketball, is played by two teams of seven players?
a) Baseball
b) Hockey
c) Netball
d) Football
25. Which Pacific state is the most populated state in the USA with nearly 30 million inhabitants?
a) Alaska
b) Texas
c) New York State
d) California
26. What is the capital of Germany?
a) Cologne
b) Berlin
c) Essen
d) Munich
27. To which religion is the Ganges the most sacred river?
a) Islam
b) Buddhism
c) Hinduism
d) Sikhism
28. Which river rises in northern central Spain and flows through northern Portugal to the Atlantic at Porto; length 800 km/500 mi?
a) Tâmega
b) Douro (Spanish Duero)
c) Tejo
d) águeda
29. Which secret society originated in 15th-century Italy?
a) Mafia
b) Camerata Secreta
c) Rotarians
d) Masons
30. What is the capital of Mauritania?
a) Kiffa
b) Rosso
c) Nouakchott
d) Nouâdhibou
31. What name is given to the calm regions of water close to the Equator?
a) Gulf Stream
b) El Niño
c) Doldrums
d) Roaring Forties
32. Which city, whose name means `sheltered bay` in Hawaiian, is the capital of Hawaii?
a) Hola
b) Oahu
c) Aloha
d) Honolulu
33. Which of the following is an island off the Kathiawar peninsula, northwestern India?
a) Nicobar
b) Andaman
c) Diu
d) Katchall
34. In Britain, what is the name for those members of society who earn their living by nonmanual labour?
a) Middle class
b) Under class
c) Working class
d) Upper class
35. What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
a) Santiago de los Caballeros
b) Santo Domingo
c) La Vega
d) San Pedro de Macoris
36. Who said `You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again.`?
a) Andrei Sakharov
b) George Orwell
c) Voltaire
d) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
37. Who defined a Lexicographer as `A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.`?
a) Henry Fowler
b) Samuel Johnson
c) Jonathan Swift
d) Ambrose Bierce
38. What does a tennis player achieve, in name only, if he/she is champion at the Australian, French, US Open Tournaments, and Wimbledon in one season?
a) The Victory of Victories
b) The Full House
c) The Big Four
d) The Grand Slam
39. Who wrote the words `He who seizes the right moment, Is the right man.`?
a) Martin Heidegger
b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
c) Lord Byron
d) Friedrich Nietzsche
40. Which group of historians, that pioneered new methods of historical enquiry, was formed in France in 1929 and centred on the journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale?
a) Annales establishment
b) New history school
c) Annales school
d) 1929 group
41. On which continent is Paramaribo a capital city?
a) Australasia
b) South America
c) Europe
d) Asia
42. Who said `I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.`?
a) Nelson Mandela
b) Sammy Davis Jnr
c) Martin Luther King
d) Malcolm X
43. At 460 m/1,500 ft, the Sears Tower became the tallest building in the world when it was built in 1974. In which Illinois city is it situated?
a) Chicago
b) Detroit
c) Los Angeles
d) Washington
44. What is the name of the British flame-throwing tank of World War II which was a modified version of the Churchill?
a) Sherman
b) Leopard
c) Panther
d) Crocodile
45. This English poet also illustrated the Bible and works by Dante and Shakespeare. Who was he?
a) William Blake
b) Alfred Tennyson
c) Robert Browning
d) W B Yeats
46. On which river's bank is the Valley of the Kings, burial place of the ancient Kings of Egypt?
a) Ganges
b) Congo
c) Jordan
d) Nile
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