Daily Quiz #3160
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 12 September 2017
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Q1.
The "pre-Raphaelite movement" was about what?
B
Separation of church and state
D
The right to full representation in parliament
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Q2.
Who was exiled to Siberia three times, was active in the plot that overthrew Kerensky in 1917, and became Secretary of the Russian Communist Party?
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Q3.
Which of these is a type of melon?
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Q4.
What does the "V" in "V8 Supercars" refer to?
A
The configuration of the cylinders in the engine
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Q5.
Maputo is the capital of which country?
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Q6.
The Messel Pit was bought by the state of Hesse, Germany, and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 as being the single best site for plant and animal fossils from which period?
A
Cyclic glaciations including the most recent glacial period
B
Immediately before the dinosaur extinction
C
When early amniotes diversified into groups of mammals, turtles, lepidosaurs, and archosaurs
D
When the first modern mammals emerged
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Q7.
To foil something, in the sense of stopping or frustrating it, comes from an old French word and in turn from a Latin word denoting what activity?
B
Fulling, i.e. tramping to scour and thicken woollen cloth
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