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General Knowledge Quiz for October 19, 2026

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What actor, then a lieutenant in the British Highland Light Infantry, after being placed under close arrest for insubordination escaped from a first-floor window, went to the USA and made 97 films until 1983?
1. Douglas Fairbanks
2. Errol Flynn
3. David Niven
4. Laurence Olivier

The last stretch of the first railway line across the USA, from the East Coast to San Francisco via Omaha and to the north of Salt Lake City, was completed in what year?
1. 1840
2. 1869
3. 1880
4. 1900

What is a set of table top games simulating team sports such as cricket, rugby and hockey, most closely associated with football (soccer) and which for many years was marketed as "the replica of Association Football"?
1. Subbuteo
2. Sususulio
3. Bushido
4. Hokkaidō

Which of these was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist who did not begin his career as an artist until he was about 27 and committed suicide at the age of 37, yet produced more than 2,000 pieces, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, including portraits, landscapes, and sunflowers?
1. Van Morrison
2. Vincent van Gogh
3. Van Halen
4. Van Dyke Parks

The black caiman, the largest living of its species, is found in which parts of South America?
1. In the Amazon basin
2. In the Pantanal
3. Throughout Argentina
4. In the mountain rivers of Colombia

Which of these is an acute fatal disease of the nervous system characterised by hallucinations and paralysis?
1. Ebola
2. Trypanosomiasis
3. Rabies
4. Tuberculosis

Which of these is used for colouring hair?
1. Grammar
2. Senna
3. Ravenna
4. Henna

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 18, 2026

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Which of these is a professional association in the UK with the dual roles of learned society and professional body that was formed in 1980 from the merger of the Faraday Society with 3 other societies?
1. The Royal Society of Chemistry
2. The Royal Academy of Arts
3. The Chartered Institute for IT
4. The Geological Society of London

What is a poussin?
1. A needle used in surgery
2. A type of knife
3. Baby chicken raised for food
4. A small cart

In their original Greek version, what architectural style of fluted column stood directly on the flat pavement (the stylobate) of a temple without a base, topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam (entablature) that they carried?
1. Corinthian
2. Ionic
3. Doric
4. Carthaginian

What is the only book written by Emily Bronte?
1. Wuthering Heights
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. The Mill on the Floss
4. Jane Eyre

Which Australian city do the locals call "Freo"?
1. Darwin
2. Sydney
3. Melbourne
4. Fremantle

Carlos Menem was the president of which country from 8 July 1989 to 10 December 1999?
1. Brazil
2. Argentina
3. Chile
4. Paraguay

The single rule of sudoku is what?
1. To put a number in every box
2. To put the central square in checkmate
3. Each column, row and square must contain one each of the numbers 1 to 9
4. All the diagonals must add up to 45

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 17, 2026

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Loch Ness is part of which canal?
1. Glasgow
2. Bristol
3. Edinburgh
4. Caledonian

Six "Brandenburg Concertos" were written by which composer?
1. J S Bach
2. Brahms
3. Beethoven
4. Berlioz

German filmmaker and photographer Wim Wenders won the 1985 BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the 1984 Palme d'Or at Cannes for which film?
1. Paris, Texas
2. Wings of Desire
3. Faraway, So Close!
4. Buena Vista Social Club

Which of these professional football (soccer) clubs was formed in 1925?
1. Boca Juniors
2. River Plate
3. Flamengo
4. Colo-Colo

The invention of what game, needing only pencil and paper, is sometimes attributed to Clifford von Wickler in the early 1900s?
1. Three Men's Morris
2. Hangman
3. Tic Tac Toe
4. Battleship

For a constant sound wave, what is the name for the number of times successive crests occur per second?
1. Wavelength
2. Amplitude
3. Frequency
4. Power

Which can also express "between"?
1. Twist
2. Twixt
3. Twice
4. Twirl

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 16, 2026

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Who created the character of Doctor Frankenstein?
1. George Eliot
2. Baroness Orczy
3. Mary Shelley
4. Emily Brontë

The ISU is the body governing various competitive disciplines in what field?
1. Ski flying
2. Squash
3. Skating
4. Sledracing

When they played together between 1966 and 1968, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker & Eric Clapton were known as what band?
1. The Bluesbreakers
2. Derek and the Dominos
3. Blind Faith
4. Cream

What is the honour system founded by Napoleon in 1802 that has five classes including Grand Cross and Officer?
1. Sacre Blues
2. Compagnie de Chevaliers
3. Champs Elysees
4. Legion of Honour

What term is used of a spoken or signed human language, emerging organically without conscious plan, replicated across generations, regionally expanding or contracting, and subject to change internally and structurally?
1. Universal language
2. Natural language
3. Proto-language
4. Base communication system

Which of these is an island holiday destination and a type of shorts?
1. Corfu
2. Tasmania
3. Crete
4. Bermuda

To be truculent is to be what?
1. Adamantly critical
2. Ready to make a truce
3. Ready to pick a fight
4. Obstinate

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 15, 2026

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Which British artist was at one time goalie for the local football team and also one of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ)?
1. Anish Kapoor
2. Banksy
3. Tracey Emin
4. Slawn

In the 19th century a number of British theatres, because they showed a preponderance of bloodthirsty melodramas, became known as what?
1. Blood Curdler
2. Blood Bath
3. Murder House
4. Blood Tub

What are the active toxic principles in the roots and tubers of monkshood, or wolfsbane?
1. Alkaloids
2. Acids
3. Alkanes
4. Metal salts

What is the meaning of "kilter"?
1. The inner city
2. Long tartan skirt
3. The working drawings for a piece of machinery
4. Good or usual condition, order or balance

When did construction of Egypt's Aswan High Dam start?
1. 1960
2. 1930
3. 1945
4. 1975

In 2015 Manny Pacquiao fought Floyd Mayweather in a fight billed as what?
1. Fight of the Century
2. Rumble in the Jungle
3. Kings of the Ring
4. The Best with the Best

Where do the warm Agulhas and the cold Benguela ocean currents contact one another?
1. Near and west of the southern tip of Africa
2. West of the Galapagos Islands
3. South of New Zealand
4. Between Tierra del Fuego and the mainland of South America

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 14, 2026

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Which classic poem contains the line "Far from the madding crowd"?
1. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
2. Hiawatha
3. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
4. Sea Fever

What computer game has variants such as Sudoku Mania, Stax, Arcade, Jungle and Higher higher?
1. Sokoban
2. Pac-Man
3. Tetris
4. Frogger

Which capital city was nearly destroyed by earthquake in 1972?
1. Tegucigalpa, Honduras
2. Managua, Nicaragua
3. Sacramento, California
4. Wellington, New Zealand

What organisation was formed in 1670 when King Charles II of England granted a charter to Prince Rupert and others to give them large tracts of land and the trading rights over a large area?
1. New Zealand Company
2. East India Company
3. Hudson's Bay Company
4. Bad Company

What is the name of the gifted swordsman, poet and musician who, in Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, lends his skills to woo his beloved on behalf of his rival?
1. Cuff
2. Grace
3. Morse
4. Bergerac

Which of these is the smallest number?
1. 80%
2. Three quarters
3. 0.9
4. One

The Bartle Test of Gamer Psychology is a specialised personality test relating to which of the following activities?
1. Multiplayer Online Computer Games
2. Roleplaying Games
3. Athletics
4. Miniature Wargaming

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 13, 2026

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What is "enjambement"?
1. The run on of sense from one line of verse to the next without grammatical pause
2. The fixing of a door so that it does not quite close, so that it can be opened without a handle
3. Food topping, usually a pie, with confiture made from fruit, usually strawberry
4. The attachment of artificial limbs, specifically legs

Which musical was based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce "The Merchant of Yonkers", which he revised and retitled "The Matchmaker" in 1955?
1. Kiss Me, Kate
2. Hello, Dolly!
3. Aspects of Love
4. Damn Yankees

Which Nobel prize winner in literature died in August 2013?
1. Italian playwright, songwriter and political campaigner Dario Fo
2. UK writer Harold Pinter
3. Irish poet Seamus Heaney
4. South African writer Nadine Gordimer

Which of these is an instrument in the diagnosis of certain heart disorders?
1. Polygraph
2. Electroencephalograph
3. Seismograph
4. Electrocardiograph

In March 1960, Alberto Korda took what became an iconic photograph of whom?
1. Marilyn Monroe
2. Che Guevara
3. Albert Schweitzer
4. Fidel Castro

The 2026 Robot Games in China saw human sports records broken in standing high jump and what else?
1. Discus
2. Weightlifting
3. Speedskating
4. 100m sprint

Yuánzhùmín is a term applied to what people?
1. People of Tierra del Fuego
2. Settlers of western Siberia
3. Aboriginal inhabitants of Taiwan
4. People of the Kermadecs

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 12, 2026

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What is the longest river in Italy?
1. Rubicon
2. Tiber
3. Po
4. Hudson

What is or was the main characteristic of the Younger Dryas?
1. Cold temperatures
2. Extreme agility
3. Car chases
4. The ability to fly in outer space

Which function does nitric oxide have in the human body?
1. Regulating platelet formation
2. Vasodilation
3. Joint lubrication
4. Increasing signal strength in the immune system

"A Dictionary of the English Language", first published in 1755, becoming one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language, was by whom?
1. Noah Webster
2. Francis Bacon
3. Samuel Johnson
4. Thomas More

What is the name of the bird in the Peanuts comic strip?
1. Wingle
2. Flapper
3. Woodstock
4. Sammy

What is the maximum allowed width of a table tennis bat or racquet?
1. 15 cm (5.9 in)
2. The rules do not stipulate either a maximum or a minimum
3. 30 cm (11.8 in)
4. 10 cm (3.9 in)

What word can either refer to a nineteenth century specialised theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum?
1. Stripepyjama
2. Cinerama
3. Bananarama
4. Diorama

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 11, 2026

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What was the last act of the Live 8 performance in Philadelphia on 2 July 2005?
1. Bob Dylan with "Blowin' in the Wind"
2. Stevie Wonder with "Superstition"
3. CCR with "Proud Mary"
4. Bruce Springsteen with "Born to Run"

What would be most useful in playing a game of backgammon?
1. A ball
2. Dice
3. Umpires
4. Special shoes

What actor had the title role in the film "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"?
1. Ben Stiller
2. Will Ferrell
3. Adam Sandler
4. Steve Carell

What is the name of the large seat covered with red cloth, being the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of the UK Parliament?
1. The La-Z-Boy
2. The Throne
3. The Big Chair
4. The Woolsack

The government in the UK 1935 to 1945, leading up to the partition of India in 1947, and from 1951 afterwards, was led in succession by Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill and was effectively Conservative; what was the UK government which saw the partition into effect and who led it?
1. Anthony Eden, Conservative
2. Neville Chamberlain, Conservative
3. Winston Churchill, Conservative
4. Clement Attlee, Labour

What is the name for what is basically an induction coil whereby the voltage of an alternating current can be increased or decreased without changing the frequency?
1. Transformer
2. Voltmeter
3. Rheostat
4. Ammeter

What is an Afrikaans and South African English word for a roughly circular enclosure for livestock, surrounded by fencing?
1. Kraal
2. Igloo
3. Boma
4. Tepee

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 10, 2026

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What was the prize money (in $US) for the winner of the 2015 Men's World Open Squash Championship?
1. $1.2m
2. $48,000
3. $160,000
4. $750,000

The War of the Fourth Coalition 1806-7 against Napoléon Bonaparte's French Empire was waged by a coalition whose principals were Prussia and which other country?
1. Denmark
2. Great Britain
3. Austria
4. Russia

What is a Riemannian manifold?
1. An origami fold
2. A system to manage flow of air, fuel, or exhaust into or out of an engine's cylinders
3. A geometric space on which ideas of, e.g., distance, angle, volume and curvature are defined
4. A type of calculus

Edgard Varèse famously said, and John Cage popularised the saying, "… (what)... is organised sound"?
1. A dog barking
2. Music
3. Thunder
4. A baby's giggle

Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom, war and the liberal arts?
1. Pallas Athene
2. Hera
3. Barbara
4. Jennifer

Which of these is an island or group of islands?
1. Mozambique
2. Zanzibar
3. Cap Bon
4. Timbuktu

What genre was "The First Hundred Years", an American TV serial airing on CBS from 1950 to 1952?
1. Home kitchen
2. History
3. Panel quiz show
4. Soap opera

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 9, 2026

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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The 2013 UK television series "Ambassadors" follows the lives of the British embassy employees in which fictional nation?
1. Tazbekistan
2. Lichtenbourg
3. Zimbanyika
4. Pataguela

Which of these countries is closest to Austria?
1. Korea
2. Denmark
3. Zimbabwe
4. Japan

Which cloud formation is a sign of thermals?
1. Cirrus
2. Cumulus
3. Stratus
4. Alto

Which French artist created "Monument to Balzac", "The Kiss", "The Burghers of Calais", and "The Gates of Hell"?
1. Auguste Rodin
2. Camille Claudel
3. Antoine-Louis Barye
4. Jules Dalou

Competitors in what MilSim Games would carry markers?
1. Submarine
2. Wargaming
3. Airsoft
4. Paintball

Which least means "wick"?
1. Small plant or twig
2. Village
3. Living
4. Creek

The Second Emsav, a cultural nationalism movement which started in 1919 after the First World War, was centred on the standing and culture of what place?
1. Greece
2. Brittany
3. Portugal
4. Normandy

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 8, 2026

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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The film actor Maurice Micklewhite is better known by what name?
1. Clark Gable
2. Michael Caine
3. Anthony Hopkins
4. Steve Martin

In 2015, an economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan came into effect called the what?
1. Russphere
2. Warsaw Pact
3. Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU or EEU)
4. Vookusy Europa (VE)

What is the peptide hormone produced in all vertebrates and some others to promote the absorption of glucose from the blood to muscles and fat tissue?
1. Lipids
2. Insulin
3. Haemoglobin
4. Bile

What is the name for the area of a page in, e.g., a book which is designed to be trimmed off in the final product?
1. Strip
2. Bleed lines
3. Crop
4. Slug

As the River Ganges enters Bangladesh the main branch becomes known as what river?
1. Ganges (it keeps the same name)
2. Padma
3. Hugli
4. Meghna

What is the name for a set of marks stamped on gold and silver articles to attest to the genuineness of the metal and the year of testing?
1. Hallmark
2. Provenance
3. Birth Mark
4. Watermark

Which of these competes in Tug of War World Championships?
1. Samoa
2. New Zealand
3. Basque Country
4. Mozambique

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 7, 2026

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Which Graham Greene novel was the basis for a 1948 film, directed and produced by the Boulting Brothers and starring Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell and Carol Marsh in her film debut?
1. The Lawless Roads
2. Quartet
3. Brighton Rock
4. Fame is the Spur

In what position had Shimon Peres who died in September 2016 at the age of 93 most recently served in Israel?
1. Director-General of the Ministry of Defence
2. Prime Minister
3. President
4. Minister of Immigrant Absorption

In the acronym NASA, what does the first "A" stand for?
1. Aeronautics
2. Aerospace
3. Atmospheric
4. Administration

English business magnate, investor, and philanthropist Sir Richard Branson's ventures also include what?
1. International water delivery
2. Franchising worm farms
3. Engineless cars
4. Developing commercial craft for sub-orbital space flight

"Joltin' Joe" was the nickname of which American sportsman?
1. Joe Louis
2. Joe Torre
3. Joe Bugner
4. Joe DiMaggio

The Tien Shan, or Tian Shan, mountains lie to the north of which?
1. Beijing, China
2. Gobi Desert
3. Bhutan
4. Taklimakan Desert

What is La Niña?
1. A cloud formation
2. A type of tsunami
3. A dress style
4. A climate pattern

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 6, 2026

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Of whom did the 1954 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians say his music was "monotonous in texture ... consist[ing] mainly of artificial and gushing tunes" and predicted that his popular success was "not likely to last"?
1. Cole Porter
2. Elvis Presley
3. Irving Berlin
4. Sergei Rachmaninoff

What is the meaning of the word "micturition"?
1. Heating food
2. Passing University Entrance examinations
3. Manipulating cells under a microscope
4. Urinating

Which folksong, with Spanish lyrics talking of an insect which cannot walk, became especially popular in the 1910s?
1. La Macarena
2. La Bamba
3. Guantanamera
4. La Cucaracha

Rhinitis is inflammation of the mucous membranes of what?
1. Germans
2. Rhinoceroses
3. Nose
4. Throat

How far must the centre of a tug of war rope be pulled away from the starting point of the tug for a winner to be declared?
1. 4m (13.12 ft)
2. 0.91m (3 ft)
3. The length of spread of the team pulling the rope
4. Until the opposing team's last player is pulled over the starting point

In January 1925 Wyoming and Texas in the USA swore in the first what in the USA?
1. Police chiefs
2. African American judges
3. Congressmen under 40 years old
4. Female governors

With which country does Russia have its shortest international border?
1. North Korea
2. Ukraine
3. Estonia
4. Latvia

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 5, 2026

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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A best-selling album by Bruce Springsteen was "Born in ..." what?
1. The USA
2. A manger
3. A Hospital
4. A Trunk

Which president of the USA lent his name to a species of elk?
1. Bill Clinton
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Andrew Jackson
4. Theodore Roosevelt

What accusation was levelled at the winner of the men's Conker World Championship in 2024?
1. Distracting fellow competitors
2. Using a steel conker
3. Painting a reflective skull and crossbones on his hand
4. Letting off fireworks when he won

Which credit card is famous for the slogan "Don't leave home without it"?
1. Diners Club
2. Visa
3. Mastercard
4. American Express

What is the name for the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, from which Muslims date their era?
1. Sha'Ban
2. Hejira
3. Muharram
4. Ramadan

Which of these is a short haired odd-toed vegetarian mammal native to Central and South America and Southeast Asia?
1. Marmoset
2. Sloth
3. Tapir
4. Capybara

Which country has Nuku'alofa, on the island of Tongatapu, as its capital?
1. Federated States of Micronesia
2. Tonga
3. Kiribati
4. Vanuatu

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 4, 2026

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What is a dewlap?
1. A fold of skin round a dewclaw
2. A flap of skin beneath the neck or jaw
3. A spring wildflower in Britain
4. A particular morning dew

Who sang, backed by U2, as the first song in the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London, in 2005?
1. Mick Jagger
2. Elton John
3. David Bowie
4. Paul McCartney

Which of these has played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Los Angeles Galaxy, AC Milan and England?
1. Rory McIlroy
2. David Beckham
3. Roger Federer
4. Magic Johnson

According to the English nursery rhyme, who ran after the farmer's wife?
1. Old King Cole
2. Solomon Grundy
3. The dish
4. Three blind mice

Who first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864 and painted several thousand works until his death in 1919, even though during the last twenty years of his life rheumatoid arthritis severely limited his mobility and use of his shoulder and hands and he eventually became wheelchair-bound?
1. Paul Cézanne
2. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
3. Henri Matisse
4. Paul Gauguin

Cathay is now a poetic name for which country?
1. China
2. Japan
3. Korea
4. Iraq

The USA purchased Alaska in 1867; when did it become one of the states in the United States?
1. 1940
2. 1880
3. 1918
4. 1959

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 3, 2026

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Norfolk Island is closest to which of these?
1. Australia
2. India
3. France
4. Russia

What is a term for the proof of a book or pamphlet which is printed to enable checking before it is published?
1. Galley
2. Gallimaufry
3. Galop
4. Gallow

Who sang with UB40 on their hit record "I Got You Babe"?
1. Cher
2. Tom Jones
3. Chrissie Hynde
4. Beyonce

Which of these is a style of music?
1. Hop Off
2. Hip Cats
3. Hep Hup
4. Hip hop

The chemical messenger that transports signals from one cell to another, called phytohormone in plants, is called what in animals?
1. Calcium
2. Hormone
3. Pheromone
4. Antibody

The maidservant Anna Göldi was executed in Switzerland in 1782, officially for non-lethal poisoning (although that did not carry the death penalty) but actually for what?
1. Talking too much
2. Being impertinent
3. Carrying out chemical experiments with her master's equipment
4. Witchcraft

In darts, what is the next in the sequence 7, 16, 8, 11, 14?
1. 5
2. 12
3. 9
4. 20

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 2, 2026

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Songwriter Jack White (vocals, guitar and piano) and Meg White (drums and occasional vocals) make up which American rock duo who produced three Grammy Award (Best Alternative Music Album) winning albums ("Elephant", "Get Behind Me Satan" & "Icky Thump")?
1. The White Stripes
2. The Red Chevrons
3. The Blue Checks
4. The Purple Plaids

What does the institution ECDC do?
1. Monitors infectious diseases on behalf of the EU
2. Certifies computer skills
3. Ecological research
4. Regulates international standards for electrical cable ducting

Which new year has ever started on 16 July?
1. Aztec
2. Jewish
3. Islamic
4. Chinese

The BAFTA-winning British TV series "It's a Sin" (2021) follows a group and their friends during what crisis?
1. HIV/AIDS
2. CoViD-19
3. Illegal immigration
4. Child Marriage/Gender Discrimination

The membership of which British intellectual socialist group formed in London in 1884 included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Ramsay MacDonald, Emmeline Pankhurst and Bertrand Russell?
1. The Darin Society
2. The Dion Society
3. The Fabian Society
4. The Rydell Society

Which board game depends on competitors drawing destination cards, railway car cards and locomotive cards?
1. Ticket to Ride
2. Think I'm Gonna Be Sad
3. Great Western Railway
4. Chattanooga Choo Choo

Which of North America's Great Lakes has the same name as a province of Canada?
1. Superior
2. Michigan
3. Ontario
4. Erie

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General Knowledge Quiz for October 1, 2026

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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The opening sequence of the film "Airplane" (also entitled "Flying High") is a parody of which film?
1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. The Godfather II
3. Halloween
4. Jaws

What amphibia are native across the northern hemisphere up to the Arctic tree line, typically have four fingers and five toes, and include a species which ejects a white poisonous fluid from the glands in the skin?
1. Cobra
2. Tuatara
3. Salamander
4. Tapir

"Say that smoothly with thy beauty's silent music" and "murmuring of innumerable bees" are examples of what?
1. Alliteration
2. Assonance
3. Simile
4. Anagram

Permian is a term for what?
1. A breed of dog
2. A style of hairdressing
3. A long-time relationship (colloquially)
4. A period in Earth's history

Which two land masses does Palk Strait separate?
1. India and Sri Lanka
2. The North and South Islands of New Zealand
3. Mainland South America and Tierra del Fuego
4. The Isle of Wight and mainland UK

Which country hosted the Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament during the years when it was held (2014 to 2017)?
1. Colombia
2. Canada
3. USA
4. Mexico

Which English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist rebuilt 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666?
1. Inigo Jones
2. Grinling Gibbons
3. Sir Roger Pratt
4. Sir Christopher Wren

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General Knowledge Quiz for September 30, 2026

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What is the name for an elaborate seat, frequently with a canopy, strapped to the back of an elephant?
1. Hoopla
2. Hookah
3. Howzat
4. Howdah

The two carotid arteries in mammals carry blood to where?
1. Arms
2. Lungs
3. Brain, head and neck
4. Legs

Living examples of one of the rarest and most primitive flowering plants, the Idiot Tree, are found where?
1. Amazon rainforest, South America
2. Queensland, Australia
3. Lappland, north Sweden
4. Central Borneo, Indonesia

Which art museum, on the eastern edge of Central Park in New York City, USA, has a permanent collection containing more than two million works of art?
1. Queens Museum of Art
2. The Hyde Collection
3. The Tate Gallery
4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Which group of people took control of Carthage in 439 CE?
1. Huns
2. Vandals
3. Trojans
4. Romans

Which location-based augmented reality game developed by Niantic for iOS, Android, and Apple Watch devices was released in 2016?
1. Fallout 4: Far Harbor
2. Super Mario Maker
3. Reality on Demand
4. Pokémon GO

Who, in June 2026, became the sixth Prime Minister of the UK in ten years to resign from office or leave after a premature election?
1. Rishi Sunak
2. Sir Keir Starmer
3. Kemi Badenoch
4. Jeremy Corbyn

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General Knowledge Quiz for September 29, 2026

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Who wrote the operas "Punch and Judy" (1967), "The Mask of Orpheus" (1984), "Gawain" (1990), "The Second Mrs Kong" (1994), "The Last Supper" (2000) and "The Minotaur" (2008)?
1. Steve Reich
2. Harrison Birtwistle
3. Philip Glass
4. Peter Maxwell Davies

Where was the 1825 Decembrist Uprising?
1. China
2. Russia
3. France
4. UK

A popular video game is called "Grand Theft … (what)…"?
1. Loco
2. Auto
3. Hobo
4. Pogo

Which of these was a hit record for Boney M in 1976?
1. Oh Mein Papa
2. Papa Don't Preach
3. Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
4. Daddy Cool

The crane fly is also known by what name?
1. Brother Hairy Legs
2. Mummy Fat Legs
3. Sister Hot Legs
4. Daddy Long Legs

It is in Rwanda, delivers 8.5 megawatts of power and is designed so that, from a bird's-eye view, it resembles the shape of the African continent; what is it?
1. The first major solar power farm in east Africa
2. Nyabarongo Dam
3. A windmill farm
4. Nuclear power station

What name is given by scholars to the first 6 books of the Old Testament of the Bible?
1. Originals
2. Hexateuch
3. Dead Sea Scrolls
4. Da Vinci Papers

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