Daily Quiz #897
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 3 July 2011
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Q1.
Which of these is a character in the "Back to the Future" series of films?
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Q2.
What was the name of the British India "Special Force", the brainchild of British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, that operated behind Japanese lines in Burma & India in 1943/1944 during World War II?
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Q3.
In May 2010, at the age of 13, Jordan Romero became the youngest person to do what?
A
Be accepted by an Oxford University
B
Sail single-handed around the world
C
Become a chess grand master
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Q4.
Geoff Capes, twice the world's strongest man, won 2 Commonwealth Games gold medals in which sport?
Note: This question was updated in April 2020
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Q5.
What weapon used in the middle ages had the cord of a bow fixed in a notch and an iron bolt released from it by a trigger?
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Q6.
The Victoria Falls is on which river?
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Q7.
Australopithecus sediba, an early hominid, whose only discovered remains date to 1.78 to 1.95 million years ago, is known from two partial skeletons discovered where?
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