Daily Quiz #768
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 24 February 2011
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Q1.
Which of these characters was created first?
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2
Q2.
Which TV comedy series featured agents 86 and 99 and "Chief"?
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Q3.
The Dunnart, Bandicoot, Cuscus and Potoroo are native to which country?
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Q4.
Which British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet who had strong views on matters such as immigration, national identity, monetary policy, and the UK's entry into the EEC, was a Conservative Party MP 1950 to 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP 1974 to 1987?
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Q5.
Olympic gold medallists Nedo Nadi, Enrico Fabris, Domenico Fioravanti and Alberto Tomba represented which country?
Note: This question was updated in November 2017
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Q6.
Besides the relatively recent annual honorarium of £5,750, the Poet Laureate of the UK has, since the 1500s, been traditionally rewarded annually with what?
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100 goose quills and a pint of ink
C
Free stabling for a horse
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Q7.
Which of these countries has one official time zone that is eight hours ahead of UTC (Greenwich Mean Time)?
A
People's Republic of China
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