Daily Quiz #2663
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 3 May 2016
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1
Q1.
What is or are "Stockman's Dogs"?
A
Grappling hooks for a cattleherder
C
A team within the UK Secret Service
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2
Q2.
What is the international movement, started in 2008, aiming to promote exploring, understanding threats to, and conserving the world's natural wonders?
C
Friends of World Heritage
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3
Q3.
Which poet, professor and novelist, whose first novel is considered the most widely read in modern African literature, died in Boston, USA, in 2013 at the age of 82?
A
Wole Soyinka, from Nigeria
B
Chinua Achebe, from Nigeria
C
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from Nigeria
D
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, from Kenya
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4
Q4.
If clergy, using the old Roman names, were travelling in the 11th century from Hibernia to Caledonia where, in present terms, would they be travelling from to?
D
Switzerland to Scotland
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5
Q5.
With which sport is Sebastian Loeb associated?
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6
Q6.
Which of these words is another name for a nose bleed?
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7
Q7.
Apart from Africa where is there a Table Mountain?
B
Coromandel, New Zealand
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