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Friday, January 16, 2009

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: General Knowledge. Answers here.

1. Would a cowboy wear "chaps" on his legs, his arms or his head?
2. Which disease is often abbreviated as "TB"?
3. What is usually used for the outer covering of a Battenberg cake?
4. Which US film actor won Academy Awards for best director and best picture for the 1992 film "Unforgiven"?
5. What are the three colours of the French national flag?
6. Is Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, China or Japan?
7. For which sport was the Wightman Cup awarded?
8. Music is written on a set of horizontal lines called a "stave " or "staff". How many lines are there in a stave?
9. Which Russian author wrote the novel "Doctor Zhivago"?
10. Which modern game is credited to a Lancashire carpenter Brian Gamlin (1852-1903) who devised the present-day board and scoring system?

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