General Knowledge Questions & Answers - 21-10-2014

Questions:

1. Which town in Sri Lanka is known as the city of Gems?
2. Which African republic's coast is notorious as White Man's Grave?
3. How is the Olympic flame kindled?
4. How is the Olympic flame brought to the modern Olympic venue?
5. Which dignitary inaugurated the first modern Olympics?
6. Which Filmstar won an Oscar for his performance as Prof Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady?
7. Name the white 'soul' singer whose debut album Affection sold two million copies?
8. In which year did Leander Paes, aged 17, win the Junior Wimbledon title?
9. Who was EI Salvador's first freely elected President?
10. Which Japanese automobile production engineer's just in time method of manufacturing helped make Toyota a giant of the car industry?

Answers:

1. Ratnapura
2. The Guinea coast 
3. Naturally, with the aid of the rays of the sun 
4. The Atlar of Hera, wife of Zeus, in the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, Greece
5. King George I of Greece
6. Rex Harrison
7. Lisa Stansfield
8. 1990
9. Jose Napolean Duarte
10. Taichi Ohno

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