Daily Quiz #1911
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 12 April 2014
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Q1.
Tenzing Norgay was famous for his activities in what field?
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Manufacture of alpine equipment
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Q2.
Which of these countries is south of the equator?
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Q3.
Which poet's middle name is Bysshe?
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Q4.
Which of these was not the name of one of the three "Angels" in the first TV series of "Charlie's Angels", first broadcast in the US in 1976 / 1977?
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Q5.
Which of these words is a common English word for moonshine, illicitly-distilled corn whiskey?
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Q6.
Sigmund Freud coined the term Oedipus complex to describe the tendency for a male to want to kill his father and marry his mother. What did he call the female equivalent (of a female being attached to her father and wishing to replace her mother)?
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Q7.
What century were the four major eruptions of the volcano on Krakatoa, heard some 3,000 miles away and changing global weather patterns and temperatures for years?
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