Daily Quiz #225
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 30 August 2009
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Q1.
Who was the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and heir to the throne, who renounced his children's right to succession in order to make a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek and was assassinated with her in Bosnia in 1914?
Note: This question was updated in April 2015
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Q2.
When did the final armistice for World War I come into effect?
Note: This question was updated in August 2022
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Q3.
Which US TV show, for which the cast list included Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander, was set predominantly in an apartment block on New York City's Upper West Side (but shot mostly in Los Angeles, California)?
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Q4.
Which pen manufacturer was founded in 1891 in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA?
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Q5.
On which island are 16 of Japan's 20 largest cities and Mount Fuji?
Note: This question was updated in February 2017
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Q6.
When did the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), formerly the governing body of cricket in England and across the world, pass most of its global functions to the International Cricket Council (ICC)?
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Q7.
Glaucoma affects which part of the body?
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