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Published 6th July 2021

 

Our latest general knowledge quiz which you are free to use online or print off as you like. As always the questions are repeated below along with the answers.

 

Questions

1) Founded as Albrecht Discount, what is the company known as now?

 

2) When you get treated the same way that you have treated others, then you get a what of your own what?

 

3) Olympus Mons is the highest mountain in our Solar System, where can it be found?

 

4) Which British monarch was known as Farmer George?

 

5) A statistician employed to assess risks for an insurance company is called a what?

 

6) How was the Mexican revolutionary General, born as Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula in 1878, known as?

 

7) What ‘C’ is a white or unbleached cotton fabric with no printed design?

 

8) What does the French cooking term ‘au beurre’ mean?

 

9) Santiago is the capital city of which country?

 

10) In what year did the Cuban Missile Crisis take place, when the USA put a blockade on Cuba after they saw missile sites being built? a) 1959 b) 1961 c) 1963

 

 

 

Answers

1) Founded as Albrecht Discount, what is the company known as now?

ALDI

 

2) When you get treated the same way that you have treated others, then you get a what of your own what?

A taste of your own medicine

 

3) Olympus Mons is the highest mountain in our Solar System, where can it be found?

Mars

 

4) Which British monarch was known as Farmer George?

George III

 

5) A statistician employed to assess risks for an insurance company is called a what?

Actuary

 

6) How was the Mexican revolutionary General, born as Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula in 1878, known as?

Pancho Villa

 

7) What ‘C’ is a white or unbleached cotton fabric with no printed design?

Calico

 

8) What does the French cooking term ‘au beurre’ mean?

Cooked in butter

 

9) Santiago is the capital city of which country?

Chile

 

10) In what year did the Cuban Missile Crisis take place, when the USA put a blockade on Cuba after they saw missile sites being built? a) 1959 b) 1961 c) 1963

b) 1961