FREE QUIZ BOWL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GK 37 EXAM

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FREE QUIZ BOWL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GK 37 EXAM

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-Guarantee passing score -1000 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Which North American city is served by George Bush International Airport?

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Houston, Texas Question 2: The name of which archangel means "God is my strength" or "God is my might"?

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Gabriel Question 3: According to Landnámabók, who became the first permanent Norse settler on Iceland in 874AD?

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Ingólfr Arnarson

Question 4: "All Of Me" is the 2000 autobiography of which actress?

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Barbara Windsor

Question 5: Which five-letter word, now familiar in another context, is used in archaeology for "a monumental gateway to Egyptian temples or palaces, built in stone and usually decorated with relief figures and hieroglyps"?

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Pylon Question 6: Conventional or pre-BD-XL Blu-ray discs contained how many GB per layer?

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25GB Question 7: Thomas Carlyle was sometimes the nicknamed "The Sage Of -" which area of London?

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Chelsea Question 8: From the Greek word meaning "down",what name is given to an ion with fewer electrons than protons, giving it a positive charge?

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Cation

Question 9: Which musician was born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye in 1990?

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The Weeknd Question 10: Which band dropped the words "Transit Authority" from their name in 1969?

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Chicago Question 11: Which Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat was named for the place it was signed in Iran in 1971?

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Ramsar

Question 12: What name is given to the painting technique in which water colours are thickened with gum or glue before application to the canvas?

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Gouache Question 13: Which actor (1926-2012) starred as Andy Taylor in a show named after him from 1960-68, and Ben Matlock in the legal drama Matlock (1986-1995)?

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Andy Griffith Question 14: Which city in Texas is the hub for American Airlines, as well as the home of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and world-class museums designed by Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson, Renzo Piano and Tadao Ando?

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Fort Worth Question 15: Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 - 1 November 2007) was best known historically for doing what?

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Piloting Enola Gay when it dropped the first atomic bomb, on Hiroshima Question 16: Who wrote 1617's "Rabdology", printed in Edinburgh, Scotland, and dedicated to his patron Alexander Seton?

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John Napier

Question 17: Who founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1946?

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Thomas Beecham Question 18: Which man, President of Ukraine from 2005 to 2010, achieved the position in part because of the 'Orange Revolution'?

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Viktor Yushchenko

Question 19: The only person to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony, a Pulitzer Prize, and a Golden Globe is which composer responsible for the scores to films such as The Way We Were, Ordinary People, and Sophie's Choice?

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Marvin Hamlisch Question 20: Larix decidua is the only deciduous conifer native to central Europe - what is its common name?

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European larch Question 21: Which humorous artist and musician often used to sign his name with a trademark signature in which the double 'f' in his surname was replaced by two treble clefs?

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Gerard Hoffnung Question 22: Donald Rumsfeld served as Secretary of State for Defence under George W Bush, and which other President of the USA?

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Gerald Ford Question 23: Which American newspaperman and short story writer is credited with coining the phrase "Hooray Henry", a term now used in British English to describe an upper-class, loud-mouthed, arrogant twit?

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Damon Runyon

Question 24: The Nash Equilibrium applies in which specific field?

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Game Theory Question 25: Melanie Laccohee, Michelle Stephenson, Lianne Morgan and Suzanne Tinker were all former members of which group before they became famous, and who were originally called "Touch"?

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The Spice Girls