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Can YOU answer the general knowledge quiz of the year? Gala Bingo reveal the 15 tricky pub questions people get wrong

You may think that you're smarter than your friends - but this deceptively tricky general knowledge quiz will determine whether you’re the brainiest once and for all

HOW good is your general knowledge?

You may think that you're smarter than your friends - but this deceptively tricky general knowledge quiz will determine whether you’re the brainiest once and for all.

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How will you fare in this tricky quiz?Credit: Getty Images

The quiz of the year was compiled by and aims to determine how switched on you are when it comes to general knowledge

Despite 80 per cent of the nation claiming they can answer all of the questions, some of them are sure to have you stumped - and only 50 per cent of people being able to answer question three.

So how will you fare?

1. Where is the North Pole?

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2. How do you spell the green vegetable traditionally eaten at Christmas?

3. What is the capital of Australia?

4. Look at the sequence - 4 9 16 25 36 -Which expression could be used to find the nth term in this sequence?

5. A British 50p coin has how many sides?

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6. What is the longest river in the world called?

7. Where is Father Christmas originally from?

8. Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?

9. How many bones is the human face made up of?

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10. How many arms/tentacles/limbs does a squid have?

11. What is the word used to describe an animal/plant that is both male and female?

12. The llama belongs to the family of animals commonly called what?

13. What in Cornwall is the most southerly point of mainland Britain?

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14. What do the British call the vegetables that Americans call zucchini?

15. In which Dickens novel was Miss Havisham jilted on her wedding day?

Answers below.

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Answers:

  1. The Arctic Ocean
  2. Brussels Sprouts
  3. Canberra
  4. N2+3, 2N+2, N2-3, N2
  5. Seven
  6. Nile
  7. Turkey
  8. Japan
  9. 14
  10. 10
  11. Hermaphrodite
  12. Camels
  13. Lizard Point
  14. Courgettes
  15. Great Expectations
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