Daily Quiz #2924
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 19 January 2017
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Q1.
Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critic's Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in which 2015 Canadian-Irish independent drama film?
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Q2.
Roller Hockey was known as Hardball Hockey in the USA until 2008, when what official USA name was adopted?
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Q3.
Which river gives access across West Bengal, India, carrying the waters of the Ganges or Ganga River from the Murshidabad District to Kolkata and Howrah?
D
Hugli, or Hooghly, River
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Q4.
Which of these is not green?
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Q5.
What Gaelic word is used to refer to an impromptu party at the home of a mutual friend, at which stories are told, dances danced and songs sung?
Note: This question was updated in June 2023
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Q6.
Which black UK TV comedy created by Julia Davis and first released in 2012, is a "gruesome, scatological, period-sitcom" (the Guardian)?
B
The Crimson Petal and the White
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Q7.
Since 2005, of whom or what does the name "Katrina" most often remind people in New Orleans, USA?
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