Daily Quiz #2686
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 26 May 2016
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1
Q1.
Which military powers fought the Punic Wars?
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2
Q2.
"The Count of Monte Cristo" was originally written in which language?
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3
Q3.
In the course of what did the captain of the Australian cricket team Michael Clarke resign in 2015?
D
ICC World Cricket League
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4
Q4.
Which religion has grown from 19th century teachings, of a man born in present day Iran and who died after a 24 year imprisonment in present day Israel?
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5
Q5.
What is Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin best known for?
A
Inventing the guillotine
B
Proposing beheading as the humane death penalty in the French Revolution
C
Fine tuning the angled blade in the guillotine
D
Disposing of the corpses of those guillotined
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6
Q6.
Which sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia, bounded on the west by Novaya Zemlya and to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya?
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7
Q7.
What is the study of fishes?
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