Daily Quiz #1814
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 5 January 2014
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Q1.
He established inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, and is thought to have died from pneumonia contracted while studying the effects of freezing on preserving meat. Who was he?
B
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban (1561 - 1626)
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Q2.
What does "Amen" mean?
C
See you same time tomorrow
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Q3.
Playwright Athol Fugard, multi-award-winning honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is best-known for what theme in his works?
A
Tension between Muslim and non-Muslim belief systems
B
Destruction caused by class distinction
C
Slavery, and the struggle against ethnic discrimination in the USA
D
Opposing the South African system of apartheid
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Q4.
Playing squash involves...?
A
Getting to the shopping counter first
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Q5.
What was the first standardised system of measurement established in Mesopotamia?
A
Bi-Sexagesimal System B
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Q6.
A coup in February 2010 led by Colonel Djibril Adamou Harouna displaced president Mamadou Tandja in which country?
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Q7.
Which of these countries does not administer part of the area known as Kashmir?
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