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English Pub Quiz # 120/2024
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The first pub quiz was started in the 1970s as a way to get patrons into pubs in the UK on quieter nights.
Over the span of just a few years, the popularity of these nights grew from 30 teams playing each week to 10,000.

1
 When did the USA officially enter World War II?
  1943
  1939
  1944
  1941

2
 Minamata disease, a neurological syndrome with symptoms including ataxia, numbness, general weakness, narrowing of vision and damage to hearing and speech, and even insanity, paralysis, coma and death within weeks, is caused by severe poisoning by what?
  Mercury
  Lead
  Uranium
  Aluminium

3
 What is a form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect?
  Pun
  Neologism
  Alliteration
  Simile

4
 Where is the Cotahausi Canyon, one of the deepest canyons in the world and over twice as deep, at its deepest point, as the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA?
  Peru
  Spain
  New Zealand
  Canada

5
 Which 20th century French writer and philosopher wrote the plays 'Huis Clos', 'Les Mouches' and 'Les Mains Sales' and the novels 'La Nausée' and 'Chemins de la Liberté'?
  Molière
  Jean Paul Sartre
  Guy de Maupassant
  Victor Hugo

6
 Where was the Congress held in 1814-15, chiefly between Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia, that adjusted frontiers after the fall of Napoleon?
  The Hague
  Geneva
  Vienna
  London

7
 Why did Captain James Cook give the name "The Sandwich Islands" to the Hawaiian Islands on his discovery of them on 18 January 1778?
  They were first sighted by Jim Sandwich, the crewman on watch
  He was eating lunch on the forecastle
  On the horizon, they looked like a sandwich
  He named them for John Montagu

8
 Which of these was the cause of 8.5 million refugees and half a million deaths between August and December 1947?
  The eruption of Mt Pinatubo in the Philippines
  The long march in China
  The partition of India
  Hurricane Alfred in the Caribbean

9
 In 1434, Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes made a major breakthrough to obtain a reliable trade route to Western and Eastern Africa and India by finding a route around which cape?
  Cape of Good Hope
  Cape Bojador
  Cape Verde
  Cape Lopez

10
 What is the former name of Helsinki, Finland?
  Helsingfors
  Elsinor
  Helsingor
  Eleanor