Daily Quiz #1925
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 26 April 2014
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Q1.
African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976, as a protest against a recent tour of South Africa by a rugby team from which country?
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Q2.
What defence treaty was signed by Great Britain, the USA, France, Siam, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and the Philippines in 1954?
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Q3.
What did the International Avogadro Project aim to achieve?
Note: This question was updated in April 2023
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Redefine the kilogram in terms of a fixed number of atoms in a sphere of silicon
B
Re-express the Avogadro constant
C
Explore new uses for the Avogadro constant
D
Apply the Avogadro constant to sports science
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Q4.
What city was once known as Lutèce?
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Q5.
Who was the first Englishman to lead an expedition to circumnavigate the earth by sea, and died of dysentery in the West Indies 16 years later?
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Q6.
Daniel Craig played poet Ted Hughes in what 2003 film?
Note: This question was updated in November 2017
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Q7.
What is an ornamental string of feathers?
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