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General Knowledge 141216 is a selection of 10 questions. General Knowledge 141216 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 What do the initials P&O stand for in the cruise line’s name?
A Peninsular and Oriental (P&O began life as “The Peninsular Steam Navigation Company”)
2 Which car manufacturer produced a model called Eos?
A Volkswagen – a sport compact cabriolet coupé produced from 2006 to 2016
3 Costing 7/6d (seven & six) before 1971, which licence was abolished in 1987?
A Dog licence (37½p, then 37p when ½ps withdrawn from circulation)
4 What is the name of Iran’s currency?
A Rial
5 What is the largest religion in Japan, practised by nearly 80% of the population?
A Shinto
6 To which former island-nation leader did China award the Confucius Peace Prize of 2014, their version of the Nobel Prize?
A Cuba’s Fidel Castro
7 What is the astronomical link between Hell, Birmingham, Archimedes, and Ian?
A They’re Moon craters – https://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/features/MOON_nomenclature.html
8 Which high-street shop markets the ‘Per Una’ and ‘Blue Harbour’ brands?
A Marks & Spencer – Blue Harbour is Britain’s largest men’s casuals brand
9 Old Carthusians, is the name for former pupils (old boys) of which public school?
A Charterhouse (The first Carthusian monastery or ‘Charterhouse’ was founded by Henry II in Witham Friary, Somerset as penance for the murder of St Thomas Becket. The London Charterhouse gave its name to the Charterhouse School, which used part of its site before moving out to Godalming, Surrey)
10 What is the meaning of the Latin phrase “Cogito ergo sum”?
A I think, therefore I am (or better “I am thinking, therefore I exist”)