The 'C' Quiz - General Knowledge

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1) Who was the only US President to be sworn in by his own Father?

2) Who died in 1506, still believing that he had found a new route to the East Indies?

3) The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win 2 Nobel Prizes?

4) The first modern scientist to propose that Earth and planets revolve around the sun?

5) Born in Egypt, her father was Ptolemy XII Auletes of Macedonian ancestry ?

6) Composer and pianist, married to George Sand?

7) Who in 76 BC was captured by pirates, raised his ransom, was freed, formed an army, captured and crucified his pirate captors?

8) British explorer, navigator, cartographer, born in Yorkshire, murdered in Hawaii?

9) Beginning with 'C' which country borders 4 countries beginning with 'C'?

10) Who said “Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

11) At the birth of 'Rock & Roll' in the 50's was 'Bill Haley and the ****** ?"

12a) There are 4 Island Countries beginning with 'C'........ name them?

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16) Which county is the most southern in the United Kingdom?

17) Which mountain range is used as the continental divide between Asia and Europe?

18) Which US city of almost 3 million lies on the shore of Lake Michigan?

19) The father of which famous revolutionary was born in Láncara in North-West Spain?

20) At 23½ degrees what is the name of the tropic that passes across Australia?