General Knowledge Trivia Questions - Set 4

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 Twenty General Knowledge Questions 

With Answers

 

1. Who wrote The Origin of the Species?
   THE ANSWER Q1: Charles Darwin
   
   
2. Which Slim Dusty song is Australia's only Gold 78 record?
   THE ANSWER Q2: The Pub With No Beer
   
   
3. Who was the original singer of You're So Vain?
   THE ANSWER Q3: Carly Simon
   
   
4. Which bear grows the largest - Brown, Grizzly or Polar?
   THE ANSWER Q4: Polar Bear
   
   
5. In which year were the Ash Wednesday Fires?
   THE ANSWER Q5: 1983
   
   
6. How many test scores over 200 did Don Bradman achieve?
   THE ANSWER Q6: Twelve
   
   
7. What is the first name of ex Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser's wife?
   THE ANSWER Q7: Tammy
   
   
8. Where were the 1968 Olympic Games held?
   THE ANSWER Q8: Mexico City
   
   
9. Mount Everest is on the border of which two countries?
   THE ANSWER Q9: Nepal and Tibet
   
   
10. What do the letters M & M stand for in the chocolate M & M?
    THE ANSWER Q10: Mars and Murrie
    
    
11. Where would you find St. Mark's Square?
    THE ANSWER Q11: Venice, Italy
    
    
12. Which ex-patriot Australian is known as the Kogarah Kid?
    THE ANSWER Q12: Clive James
    
    
13. Which country was called Siam until 1939?
    THE ANSWER Q13: Thailand
    
    
14. What sport would you be playing if competing for the Solheim Cup?
    THE ANSWER Q14: Golf
    
    
15. Which river flows both north and south of the equator ?
    THE ANSWER Q15: The Congo
    
    
16. Who broke the 100m freestyle world record at the 2004 Olympic trials?
    THE ANSWER Q16: Libby Lenton
    
    
17. Who was the only person exempted from taking a drug test at the 1972 Olympics?
    THE ANSWER Q17: Princess Anne
    
    
18. What is the name of the rear of a ship?
    THE ANSWER Q18: Stern
    
    
19. In Aussie rhyming slang what is a 'Captain Cook' ?
    THE ANSWER Q19: A look
    
    
20. Which popular entertainer was born Reginald Dwight?
    THE ANSWER Q20: Elton John
    
    

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To help me memorise Pi to nine decimal places, I employ an easy trick - 'May I have a large container of coffee, thank you'.  Counting the number of letters in each word gives us 3.141592653.

Mathematicians have been attempting to expand their knowledge of π for millennia, occasionally by precisely calculating its value.

For practical computations, ancient civilisations such as the Babylonians and Egyptians needed reasonably good estimations of π.

Greek mathematician Archimedes developed a technique to calculate π with arbitrarily high accuracy in 250 BC.

Using geometrical methods, mathematicians from China and India approximated π to seven and five digits, respectively, in the fifth century AD.

A millennium later, the first computing formula for π was found, based on infinite series.

The Welsh mathematician William Jones is credited for using the Greek letter π to denote the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter as early as 1706.