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"A pragmatic socialist, Bob Hawke was reelected prime minister of Australia when the right was divided by the Joh for Canberra campaign, which rallied behind Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the right-wing premier of what state?
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"In 1938, to slow down the marauding Japanese, what country blew up the levees on the Yellow River to flood thousands of square miles in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu, drowning some 800,000 of their own people in the process?"
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General Knowledge Quiz
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"When Egypt lent the remains of Ramses II to France, the mummy was issued a passport. What was listed as his occupation?
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"The Arabs call this place Wadi al Muluk. We know it for all the pharaohs secretly buried there. Where?"
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"From 1928-94, what country flew a flag known as the Oranje-Blanje-Blou, for the Afrikaner words for the main colors on it?
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"Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt were mayors before taking charge as chancellors of what country?"
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"Whose failed strategy for the Battle of Big Horn mostly involved kidnapping Indian woman and children, whom he'd use as human shields?
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"The Secret Service was powerless when what wildlife attacked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she left a Malawi airport in 2012?"
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General Knowledge Quiz
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"When I was 25, I had already become a general and dumped Desiree Cleary for an older woman named Josephine de Beauharnais. Who am I?
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"Which of these is not one of an octopus's defense mechanisms?"
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General Knowledge Quiz
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"About two-thirds of the African slaves brought to the New World ended up on plantations to satisfy European demand for glucose (C6O6H12). Which of these products is glucose?
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"Simon Fraser called it New Caledonia, George Vancouver called it New Hanover and the Americans called it Oregon. What did Queen Victoria name it?"
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Science Quiz
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"Seven muscles make up the calf, which is anchored to the heel bone by the tendon calcaneus, better known by what name?
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"People listening to portable devices will often store their music in what format?"
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"The movie Three Men and a Baby was adapted from Trois Hommes et un Couffin, which had been a hit in what country?
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"Able to close its nostrils and ears while walking along river bottoms, what is the only cloven-hoofed mammal with four equally sized toes?"
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Only take this movie quiz if you can handle a defeat.
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"It was actually Alfredo Codona of the Flying Codonas who did the swinging through the trees in what movie?
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"I have a cameo as a loan shark in the remake of Get Carter; a clip from Alfie is seen in the remake of The Italian Job; and I co-star in the remake of Sleuth, with the guy who played Alfie in that remake. Who am I?"
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"What bird, whose name meant "dummy" in Portuguese, was about the size of a turkey, and just about as tasty, which may be why it was extinct?
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"The kid who played David Copperfield and Harry Potter shares his surname with one of the Seven Sisters. Who?"
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"Who would suffer hypoglycemia if they get low blood glucose levels from excess insulin action?
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"Who has four stomach chambers called the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum, which allows them to redigest their cud?"
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"Owned by the Grosvenor family and named for May fairs held there from 1686 to 1764, Mayfair is now a fashionable district in what city?
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"What city named its famous film festival's award for the palm leaf found on its coat of arms?"