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General Knowledge 140506 is a selection of 10 questions. General Knowledge 140506 is the filename to differentiate it from other general knowledge quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 According to the rhyme, who ‘kissed the girls and made them cry’?
A Georgie Porgie (this nursery rhyme dates back to the 19th century)
2 What does an ampersand represent?
A And (& – it’s a logogram, the smallest meaningful unit of language)
3 On what might you observe the inscription ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giant?
A On the edge of a £2 coin
4 On a UK-layout PC keyboard, the £ sign shares a key with which number?
A Three
5 In which city does the EuroMillions draw normally take place?
A Paris
6 Where in 2000 did Charles Darwin succeed Charles Dickens?
A On the back of a ten-pound note
7 What is the name of Israel’s secret service?
A Mossad (Mossad frequently operate outside the laws of the countries in which they are spying, as sanctioned by their government and carry out assassinations, also sanctioned – Margaret Thatcher ordered a shutdown of their operations here in 1987)
8 What is the official name of the award for bravery given by the charity PDSA and popularly known as the Animals’ Victoria Cross?
A The Dickin Medal (instituted in 1943 in the United Kingdom by Maria Dickin to honour the work of animals in World War II)
9 What is the name of the charity for single parents founded in the 1970s?
A Gingerbread
10 According to the traditional nursery rhyme, what do six magpies signify?
A Gold (there is, however, some considerable variation in the lyrics over the years, for example, One for sorrow, Two for mirth, Three for a funeral, Four for birth, Five for heaven, Six for hell, Seven for the devil, his own self)