General Knowledge Quiz

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Question 1: What does the phrase "card shark" mean?
Answer a: Shut Up And Listen
Answer b: A Box To Hold Cards
Answer c: A Professional Card Player
Answer d: Someone Ineffectual
Question 2: What unit of measurement is one-thousandth of a gram?
Answer a: Methane
Answer b: Milligram
Answer c: Kilometer
Answer d: Aqueduct
Question 3: Which country's government is communist?
Answer a: Chile
Answer b: China
Answer c: Canada
Answer d: England
Question 4: He was engaged to Gwyneth Paltrow in 1996, but they split up. He was married to Jennifer Aniston in 2000, but they split up in 2005, when he hooked up with Angelina Jolie. Who is this lucky dog?
Answer a: Ben Affleck
Answer b: Brad Pitt
Answer c: Benjamin Bratt
Answer d: Matt Damon
Question 5: In Mother Goose lore, what bridge was "falling down"?
Answer a: Golden Gate Bridge
Answer b: The old rickety bridge
Answer c: London Bridge
Answer d: Brooklyn Bridge
Question 6: In 2015, users of which social media site fell for a hoax viral news story about privacy notices?
Answer a: ClassMates
Answer b: Facebook
Answer c: Tagged
Answer d: LinkedIn
Question 7: Zager and Evans had a 1969 hit about which futuristic year?
Answer a: 2525
Answer b: 3535
Answer c: 4525
Answer d: 2000
Question 8: The Ravens were named to honour which famous Baltimore writer?
Answer a: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Answer b: Mark Twain
Answer c: H.L. Mencken
Answer d: Edgar Allen Poe
Question 9: The property of glowing under ultraviolet light is named for what mineral, which happens to do so?
Answer a: Quartz
Answer b: Amber
Answer c: Fluorite
Answer d: Chlorine
Question 10: In what year did Franklin D. Roosevelt's second Secretary of the Treasury begin his service?
Answer a: 1934
Answer b: 1914
Answer c: 1924
Answer d: 1904

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Question 8 was easy. In fact an easy quiz altogether.

[@philb6490]

9 of 10 missed the brad pitt one 🌞🇺🇸🦅👍

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10 for 10. Good questions😊

[@MAgaSUXX]

10/10 this had some testy questions. I was lucky to get them all.

[@carolcorrigan3130]

10/10 thanks

[@shibaricognoscenti14]

An easy enough 10/10.

[@davidgreen5255]

I got 9 out of 10.

[@noelkamp7897]

10/10 easy

[@jennyreilly1151]

9/10...
Q8: no idea I'm 🇦🇺

[@petermccracken2247]

9/ 10 # 9 got me.

[@carolynwoodman1734]

7/10😮

[@rodgerscott6405]

I really like your questions, but wish you would be consistent between the question finish being read and the correct answer being shown. It varies from two to six seconds (roughly) and that makes it impossible to know how much time you have.

[@domatshering7985]

9/10

[@charleswagar7055]

10 / 10 and really #5 and #8 weren’t that hard. Guess no one knows children’s nursery rimes anymore.

[@knife_knut]

10/10 - super easy…

[@billcudd7844]

10/10

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Question 8, Nevermore.Question 10 I could have wagered a buck on. 10 for 10.

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10/10. The last question has only one possible answer, anyway...

[@e.woodwitch2925]

9/10 I was off by a decade on #10. But I'm not an American.

[@vickiirvine1893]

I got 10 out of 10. Yeah me.

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Ten out of Ten a walk in the park easy peasy up and easy love Anthony Fed ex lol ❤😊

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10

[@DanielBarrett-og7sv]

Question number eight was Edgar Allan Poe because he wrote the poem the raven in Baltimore so they named their football team the ravens in honor of that home and of course 1934 FDR’sSecretary of the treasury

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9

[@garyharnish2395]

7

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ten of ten ruff!!!! Ha ah HA

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I wouldn’t call him lucky!

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9/10 missed q 10

[@williammarriott6131]

Too easy, virtually every question had obvious clues and what is that thing about question #5. Stop wasting our time.

[@user-vw1ub3jo3q]

10/10

[@carlfowler1996]

10

[@thomasstone6200]

10/10

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10/10

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10/10

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10/10

[@andrewhodgkins2292]

10/10