Daily Quiz #442
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 4 April 2010
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Q1.
Who was the American who, in 1871, collected animals and freaks for a travelling circus, menagerie and museum, which by 1872 was billing itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth"?
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Q2.
Which is the common name of the perennial herb, crocus sativus, with purple flowers and orange coloured stigmas?
Note: This question was updated in November 2016
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Q3.
Which cup, an ornate silver-plated Britannia metal bottomless ewer, designed and crafted in 1848 by Garrard & Co., was donated by Sir Henry Paget, Marquess of Anglesey, for the Royal Yacht Squadron's 1851 Annual Regatta?
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Q4.
What is known as the "standard gauge" for a railway?
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Q5.
Pol Pot became the de facto leader of which country in mid-1975, forcing city dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in "Year Zero", which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people, approximately 21% of the population?
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Q6.
Where is the longest railway tunnel, opened in 2016?
Note: This question was updated in June 2017
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Q7.
Which of these is a British TV series (which has the alternative title of "MI-5") that follows the work of a group of intelligence officers based at their Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid?
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