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  1. Capital Cities

    1. Which capital city was built to replace Lagos in 1991?

    1. Lusaka
    2. Abuja
    3. Gaborone
    4. Dodoma
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    Answer: Abuja

    Japanese architect Kenzo Tange helped detail the master plan, and the city rose beside Aso Rock, a 400 metre monolith.

  2. Dinosaurs

    2. What is the informal term for the spiked tail of a Stegosaurus?

    1. Osteoderm
    2. Casque
    3. Thagomizer
    4. Quill
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    Answer: Thagomizer

    The term thagomizer was coined in a 1982 Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson and was later adopted by professional paleontologists.

  3. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

    3. What natural disaster finally destroyed the Lighthouse of Alexandria?

    1. Fire
    2. Earthquakes
    3. Erosion
    4. Lightning
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    Answer: Earthquakes

    A tremor in 956 sheared about 20 metres off the top, and by 1349 the traveller Ibn Battuta found the ruin impossible to enter.

  4. Cold War

    4. Who was the first leader of the Soviet Union born after the 1917 Russian Revolution?

    1. Joseph Stalin
    2. Leonid Brezhnev
    3. Konstantin Chernenko
    4. Mikhail Gorbachev
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    Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

    Every Soviet leader before him was born under the Tsars; Gorbachev, born in 1931, was the first shaped entirely by the Soviet era itself.

  5. Brand Logos

    5. What ancient alphabet inspired the geometric symbol used in the Bluetooth logo?

    1. Roman numerals
    2. Phoenician letters
    3. Nordic runes
    4. Egyptian hieroglyphs
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    Answer: Nordic runes

    Younger Futhark trimmed the older 24 rune alphabet down to 16 signs, and the logo fuses two of them into a single bind rune.

  6. Famous Paintings

    6. What material gives Gustav Klimt's The Kiss its shimmering appearance?

    1. Crushed pyrite
    2. Gold leaf
    3. Silk threads
    4. Polished brass
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    Answer: Gold leaf

    Austria's culture ministry bought the picture straight out of the 1908 Vienna Kunstschau for 25,000 crowns; it still hangs in the Belvedere.

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