General Knowledge Questions

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Question 1: What is the capital of the Philippines?
Answer a: Beijing
Answer b: Tokyo
Answer c: Manila
Answer d: Cebu

Question 2: Familiarity ... contempt
Answer a: breeds
Answer b: needs
Answer c: covers
Answer d: gives

Question 3: Who sang the famous song Dream Baby (1973)?
Answer a: Martin Rosenplänter
Answer b: Roy Orbison
Answer c: Seal
Answer d: Tracy Chapman

Question 4: Gloria Gaynor is one of the two female artists who are often referred to as "The Queen of Disco". Who is the other?
Answer a: Madonna
Answer b: Cher
Answer c: Dolly Parton
Answer d: Donna Summer

Question 5: In 1951, photographer Arthur Sasse took a famous picture of what very serious thinker with his tongue stuck out?
Answer a: Albert Einstein
Answer b: Marshall McLuhan
Answer c: George Bernard Shaw
Answer d: Albert Camus

Question 6: In "The Wizard of Oz", the Wicked Witch of the West wants Dorothy's...?
Answer a: Ruby Slippers
Answer b: Dog Toto
Answer c: Nothing
Answer d: Pigtails

Question 7: Writer George Bernard Shaw, who died in 1950, was from which country?
Answer a: Spain
Answer b: West Germany
Answer c: Italy
Answer d: Ireland

Question 8: Which of these is an African city, not a country?
Answer a: Ethiopia
Answer b: Monrovia
Answer c: Egypt
Answer d: South Africa

Question 9: Gideon Sundback patented what clothes fastener in 1914?
Answer a: Button Fly
Answer b: Zipper
Answer c: Eyelet
Answer d: Velcro

Question 10: Who is guided through Hell by the Roman poet Virgil and through Heaven by his beloved Beatrice?
Answer a: Aquinas
Answer b: Petrarch
Answer c: Dante
Answer d: Augustine