Daily Quiz #523
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 24 June 2010
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Q1.
What was the name of the unofficial mascot of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which has a statue as part of an official Olympic memorial outside the Sydney Olympic Stadium?
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Q2.
Which of these is a lizard with a telescopic tongue, viscid lips, eyeballs that move independently, opposible toes and a prehensile tail?
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Q3.
Which film, directed by David Lean and starring John Mills, opens with an escaped convict grabbing hold of a boy in a graveyard?
B
The Blair Witch Project
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Q4.
When Robert Falcon Scott reached the south pole in January 1912, he discovered that who had reached it before him?
Note: This question was updated in March 2017
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Q5.
The Kiel Canal links which 2 seas?
D
North and Mediterranean
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Q6.
Porfirio Diaz resigned from the presidency of which country in May 1911?
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Q7.
Which of these is a problem that a hairdresser would deal with?
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