Daily Quiz #2614
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 15 March 2016
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Q1.
The Grand Canyon is in which US state?
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Q2.
In 2015 Swiss explorers Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg completed what?
A
A voyage by sampan from Vancouver to Vietnam
B
Submarine sailing of the complete length of the mid-Atlantic rift at sea-floor level
C
The first half of the first around the world zero-fuel, solar-powered flight
D
Scaling every mountain peak over 8,000 m
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Q3.
Which American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who wrote "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "Buddy Bolden's Blues" claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902?
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Q4.
The 9th Marquess of Queensberry sponsored the rules for which sport?
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Q5.
What religious sect that uses dancing as a form of worship was founded by Ann Lee, who migrated with her followers from England to New York in 1772?
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Q6.
Auditory refers to which of the senses?
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Q7.
Which children's book character was named after the London railway station where he was first met?
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