Daily Quiz #2180
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 6 January 2015
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Q1.
The Lotophagi, an island people who ate the fruit of the lotus tree, are mentioned in which of these books?
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Q2.
In 2009, Heikki Kovalainen, Kimi Raikkonen, Sebastian Vettel, Robert Kubica and Nico Rosberg were competitors in which sport?
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Q3.
What is the highest mountain on the continent of Australia?
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Q4.
Where was a battle fought between General Robert E Lee and General Meade from 1 to 3 July 1863, which is generally accepted as the turning point of the American Civil War?
Note: This question was updated in April 2016
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Q5.
In 1854, John Snow proved that what was transmitted by infected water?
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Q6.
The ancient city of Persepolis was an important centre for which ancient state religion?
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Q7.
Whose novel "Wives and Daughters", about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a doctor in a provincial English town in the 1830s, was completed by Frederick Greenwood when the author died suddenly in 1865?
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
D
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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