| General Knowledge Questions - Set 8
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1. Who played JR Ewing in the TV series
Dallas? Larry Hagman
2.
How many wives of Henry VIII were beheaded? 2
3.
Where were the 1992 Summer Olympic Games held? Barcelona, Spain
4.
Who wrote Tarzan of the Apes in 1912? Edgar Rice Burroughs
5.
Which Japanese martial art translates into English as "empty hand"?
Karate
6. Who played the Toymaker in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Benny Hill
7.
Who wrote the novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang : The Magical Car? Ian Fleming (he was more famous for
James Bond)
8.
What is the chemical symbol for Copper? Cu
9. What year was Margaret Thatcher elected as Britain's first female Prime
Minister? 1979
10.
Which of these countries does NOT border the Russian Federation A) Georgia
B) Armenia C) Azerbaijan D) Latvia? B) Armenia
11. Who wrote the novel Black Beauty,
first published in 1877? Anna
Sewell
12.
Which metallic element has the chemical symbol Pb and atomic number 82?
Lead
13.
The Gobi desert covers territory in which two countries? China and Mongolia
14.
Which American city is known as 'the city of brotherly love'? Philadelphia
15.
Who preceded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
James Callaghan
16.
Odin, a one-eyed bearded old man was the most powerful god in which
mythology? Norse
17.
What is the name of the galaxy our Solar System belong to? The Milky Way
18.
What country did ex-Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar represent?
Zimbabwe
19.
What flag does a ship traditionally fly to indicate it is about to set
sail? The Blue Peter
20.
What is the capital city of Iran? Tehran
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