Daily Quiz #1862
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 22 February 2014
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Q1.
Which of these items is termed "whiteware"?
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2
Q2.
The intergovernmental East African Community includes five African nations, the Republics of Burundi and Kenya, and three more nations; which of these is not one?
C
United Republic of Tanzania
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Q3.
In 1990 the World Weightlifting Championships were run separately for men and women for the last time. Where were they held?
Note: This question was updated in September 2023
A
Budapest, Hungary, and Sarajevo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
B
Athens, Greece and Manchester, United Kingdom
C
Ostrava, Slovenia and Florida, United States
D
Södertälje, Sweden, and Sofia, Bulgaria
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Q4.
Where would you find the Caves of Altamira, famous for prehistoric paintings on the rock?
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Q5.
James Prescott Joule have his name to a unit of energy, and to what else?
A
Joule-Thomson Effect: temperature change in an insulated environment
B
A drummer in a Canadian indie rock band
C
The wife of a celebrity chef
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Q6.
What term is used to refer to a structural deformity of the bones and the joint between the foot and big toe, and is usually used to refer to the bump on the side of the big toe joint?
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Q7.
Complete the title of this James Bond film: "The World Is Not ... "
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