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Test you knowledge with these 20 questions to broaden and deepen your general knowledge

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Friday Challenge

Questions

1 What is the next public holiday in South African and when is it?

2 What does the name, KwaMashu mean?

3 Which faith does King Misuzulu follow?

4 Who is the first and only South African world champion mixed martial artist?

5 The first of a significant wave of Indian settlers arrived in Durban in 1860. What was the name of the ship they came on?

6 What is the back end of ship called?

7 What is the primary ingredient of the drug cocaine?

8 What is the local name for cannabis?

9 How many inches in a foot?

10 What is the current minimum wage in South Africa?

11 Digital pictures come mostly in which format?'

12 Introduced in 2007, the iPhone revolutionised and popularised the cellphone. Which company was responsible for that?

13 What are the three primary colours

14 What is most common eye colour?

15 What are the three Abrahamic religions?

16 Who founded Islam?

17 How many eyes does a caterpillar have?

18 Where is the smallest bone in your body?

19 What grows faster, human hair or fingernails.

20 What is the world’s most stolen food?

Answers

1 Women’s Day, August 9. 2 Mashu is a Zulu adaptation of Marshall, and KwaMashu means Place of Marshall, in reference Sir Marshall Campbell, a prominent sugar cane farmer and magnate who owned the land where the township was established by the apartheid government. 3 The monarch ditched the family affiliation to the Anglican Church and has been baptised into the Shembe Nazareth Baptist Church. 4 Drikus du Plessis, aka DDP. 5 SS Truro. 6 The stern. 7 Leaf of the coca plant. 8 Dagga. 9 12. 10 R28.79 per hour, or about R1 150 per week. 11 .jpg (.jpeg). 12 Apple. 13 Red, green and blue. 14 Brown. 15 Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Today, at least 3.8 billion people are followers of Abrahamic religions and are spread widely around the world apart from the regions around East and Southeast Asia. 16 Mohammed. 17 12 – six on each side of its head. 18 In your ear, it’s called the stapes and is smaller than a grain of rice. 19 Fingernails. 20 Cheese.

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