Daily Quiz #1832
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 23 January 2014
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1
Q1.
In curling, how do team members help to direct the "stones" towards the target?
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2
Q2.
What is the largest island administered by the People's Republic of China, which is due east of Vietnam?
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3
Q3.
Osman founded which empire?
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4
Q4.
Which of these is the only vertebrate to have been discovered so far to have lungs but no windpipe (trachea)?
Note: This question was updated in May 2023
A
A brackish water fish called calamoichthys
B
A freshwater fish genus called polypterus
C
A freshwater fish called lungfish
D
A seawater fish called coelacanth
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Q5.
Who were the parents of 5 girls and a boy, born between 1932 and 1940, who were killed by their mother in Berlin on 1 May 1945, before both parents committed suicide?
A
Joseph & Magda Goebbels
C
Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov
D
Benito and Donna Mussolini
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6
Q6.
A YouTube mobile phone video showing giggles spreading contagiously among people on a crowded train, from just one person to the whole carriage, was filmed where?
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7
Q7.
Which of these is a film production company founded in 1934?
A
18th Century Boll-weevil
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