Daily Quiz #2385
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 30 July 2015
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Q1.
Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Guglielmo, Ferrando, Despina and Don Alfonso are characters in which opera?
D
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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2
Q2.
A male horse four years and under is called what?
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3
Q3.
The 12th century Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth is known for his writings on what?
B
Recipes for griddle cakes
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Q4.
Which of these, a short Texan pop singer of the 60s, 70s and 80s whose children died in a fire and whose wife died in a car crash, died of a heart attack on 6 December 1988?
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Q5.
The Sete Quedas Falls, said to rival the famous Iguazu Falls complex on the Iguazu River, were obliterated by what?
A
The construction of the Itaipu Dam, beginning 1970
B
The Oran earthquake (1871)
C
The Cúcuta earthquake (1875)
D
Bombing in the 1947 Paraguayan Civil War
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Q6.
What does an anemometer measure?
A
The strength of an opposing army
B
Sea creatures tentacles
C
Petal sizes of certain perennial flowers
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Q7.
Since the building, Taipei 101, topped 500m tall at the end of 2003, how many buildings have now, in 2015, topped 600m?
Note: This question was updated in December 2020
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