Daily Quiz #2188
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 14 January 2015
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Q1.
Which of these represents waltz time?
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Q2.
Who was Secretary-General (later President) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939-80), led the World War II Yugoslav resistance movement, the Yugoslav Partisans (1941-45), became Prime Minister (1943-63) and later President (1953-80) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) and from 1943 to his death in 1980, held the rank of Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA)?
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Q3.
Which former American football star was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and was later convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping?
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Q4.
Which Earl of Essex, after being sent to Ireland as Governor-General in 1599, being briefly imprisoned and leading a rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I, was executed in 1601?
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Q5.
When and where was the first full facial reattachment performed?
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Q6.
What novel was published by Bob Dylan in 1971?
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Q7.
Part of a great lake many millions of years ago, re-formed by seismic activity, and functioning as a cradle of human activity for at least 1.9 m years, Oldupai, or Olduvai, Gorge in the Tanzanian part of the Great Rift is named after what?
A
A deity who was the centre of local worship
B
The archaeological term for the earliest stone tool industry in prehistory
D
A sisal plant which grows in the gorge
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