Daily Quiz #2925
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 20 January 2017
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Q1.
What Italian film, released in 1999, told the story of a Jewish family sent to a concentration camp in World War II?
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2
Q2.
What river is the Aswan Dam built on?
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3
Q3.
What is the substance formed naturally in wine barrels during fermentation of the wine and known as wine diamonds?
A
Cream of Tartar (potassium hydrogen tartrate)
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Q4.
What tourist facility, occupying more than 85 acres, opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955?
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Q5.
The root of which plant, native to South America, is (in various forms) emetic, diaphoretic and expectorant, a stimulant to the stomach, intestines and liver, and a restorative?
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Q6.
What book published in 1864 by William Wallace Mitchell, a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, became the basis of the rules of a modern game?
A
"The Sporte of Croquet in the Modern Daye"
B
"How to Play Crickette"
C
"Rugby Union for Dummies"
D
"Manual of Bowls Playing"
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Q7.
Which Scottish biologist and pharmacologist who published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy, discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and an antibiotic substance from a fungus in 1928?
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