Today's General Knowledge Quiz
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1
The extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe, was known as what?
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2
Why was wrestler Ara Abrahamian of Sweden disqualified by the IOC and stripped of his rejected bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
A
He was over the weight limit for his event
B
Disrupting the award ceremony
C
He refused to attend the medal award ceremony
D
Assaulting a woman athlete during the closing ceremony
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3
In the 1979 film "Alien" which of these actors plays a charcter that has an alien burst out of his body?
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4
"Don't Cha" and "Stickwitu" were #1 hit singles for which group?
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5
A
In the Mediterranean Sea
C
Facing the English Channel
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6
What is the Spanish name for Saint James, son of Zebedee, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus?
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7
What is one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals, first published on 4 November 1869, one of the few that publish original research articles across a wide range of scientific fields?
C
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
D
The Scientific American
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