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General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 17 September 2025

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Q1. What is or are the machair?

A
A commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France
B
An indigenous tribe in south-west Ecuador
C
Calcareous, fertile, dune grasslands unique to northern Scotland and Ireland
D
A type of pear
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Q2. Minnesang, lyric- and song-writing in the 12th to 14th centuries, was a tradition in what?.

A
Children's ballads
B
Epic histories
C
Community news
D
Love songs
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Q3. With which sport are Rodney Eyles, Peter Nicol, Susan Devoy and Cassie Campion associated?

A
Badminton
B
Table Tennis
C
Tennis
D
Squash
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Q4. Which American singer, actress, songwriter and author who was born Cherilyn Sarkisian has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards?

A
Sherry Stringfield
B
Koo Stark
C
Cher
D
Cherry Jones
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Q5. Speech which is high-flown and impressive-sounding but exaggerated, pretentious, overblown, and with little of truth or substance is called what?

A
Bombastic
B
Rhetorical
C
Puerile
D
Loquacious
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Q6. In 1516, English humanist Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) published "Utopia", which describes an ideal society based on what economic theory?

A
Taxes paid by all men according to their means to pay, and spent on all men according to their need
B
All land owned in common, plus universal education and religious tolerance
C
Specialisation of labour, collective ownership of resources, and money as units of credit
D
Outlawing of usury and monopoly
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Q7. Cyrus the Great of Persia, for his religious tolerance, power and skill the only non-Jew to be acclaimed as the Messiah, founded the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE which stretched how far?

A
Italy in the west to Afghanistan in the east
B
Iraq in the west to Afghanistan in the east
C
Mesopotamia and Egypt in the west to Kazakhstan in the east
D
Asia Minor in the west to the northwestern areas of India in the east
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