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General Knowledge 160426 is a selection of 10 questions. General Knowledge 160426 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 Which is the only product that was launched by Richard Branson during the 1980s that did not bear the Virgin name?
A Mates Condoms
2 What is Scotland’s ‘Old Firm’, often the subject of a bitter rivalry?
A Glasgow’s two football teams
3 Who kept his promise to present the first ‘Match of the Day’ in his boxer shorts at the start of the 2016/2017 football season?
A Gary Lineker – after Leicester City won the league – he felt safe because Leicester started off as 5000/1 outsiders to take the title
4 What was the special event that marked the close to the two months of celebrations for the queen’s 90th birthday?
A A picnic (for 10,000 people)
5 What maritime emergency order gave rise to the term The Birkenhead Drill?
A Women and children first (when abandoning ship, after HMS Birkenhead which shipwrecked in 1852)
6 Which other two countries joined the EEC with the United Kingdom in 1973?
A Eire (Republic of Ireland) and Denmark
7 Who became MP for Uxbridge South & Ruislip at the 2015 General Election?
A Boris Johnson
8 In English Common Law, what is the minimum number of people that can constitute a riot?
A Three
9 How many republics made up the former Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
A 15 (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia (now Belarus), Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya (now Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (now Moldova), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)
10 What was Prince George doing in the official royal photo that will soon become his first-ever stamp?
A Standing on blocks (to appear taller)