Daily Quiz #1768
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 20 November 2013
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Q1.
Which of these originated in Japan?
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Q2.
In 2005, who became the youngest Formula One Champion Racing Driver at the age of 24?
Note: This question was updated in March 2022
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Q3.
The geographic region of Patagonia, so called because Magellan described the native people whom his expedition thought to be giants as "patagón", is where?
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Nepal, Tibet, and parts of China
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Q4.
In their original Greek version, what architectural style of fluted column stood directly on the flat pavement (the stylobate) of a temple without a base, topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam (entablature) that they carried?
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Q5.
In 1779 Captain James Cook, having surveyed the West Coast of the continent of North America, was killed at which islands?
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Q6.
Who married British actress and producer Trudi Styler in 1992?
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Q7.
Tuberculosis was once called which of these?
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