Daily Quiz #2652
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 22 April 2016
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Q1.
At which Olympic Games did the People's Republic of China participate for the first time?
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2
Q2.
Which of these is a portmanteau word?
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3
Q3.
What name is given to the activities of the specially constituted group of British, American, Russian and French judges that tried NAZI Party leaders and German military commanders after World War II?
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Q4.
What is a common characteristic of the Titicaca Grebe, the Greater Rhea, the Inaccessible Island Rail, and the Campbell Teal?
A
They are flightless birds
B
They are native to northern hemisphere countries
C
They are carnivorous birds
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Q5.
Which 19th century Englishman went to New Zealand to be a sheep farmer, visited Canada, and wrote "Erewhon", "A Psalm of Montreal" and "The Way of All Flesh"?
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Q6.
The River Danube is on what continent?
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Q7.
Which 1959 film, produced by John and Roy Boulting, starring Peter Sellers as Kite and Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush, was about a trade union reaction to the firing of an incompetent forklift driver?
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