Daily Quiz #838
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 5 May 2011
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Q1.
Which car company badge includes the City of Milan's emblem and that of the Visconti family in a circular motif, bordered by a dark blue metallic ring containing inscriptions, separated by two Savoy dynasty knots to honour the Kingdom of Italy?
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Q2.
Which African country is the largest in area?
Note: This question was updated in April 2016
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Q3.
Of the 8 Summer Olympics between 1896 and 1952 inclusive, how many were held outside of Europe?
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Q4.
Which of these is an important date in the US election process?
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Q5.
Who was Christianity's first openly gay bishop in a major Christian denomination believing in the historic episcopate?
Note: This question was updated in December 2018
B
Richard Chartres, London
C
Rowan Williams, Canterbury
D
Gene Robinson, New Hampshire
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Q6.
Which song, in the best known translation, contains the words "Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, And he shows them pearly white, Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear, And he keeps it out of sight"?
B
They Swam Right Over the Dam
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Q7.
After Sir William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 while in the garden of his house in Bath, England, he reported it as a what?
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