Daily Quiz #3485
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 3 August 2018
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Q1.
When was the French Tricolor flag officially adopted?
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2
Q2.
What satellite, launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral on 10 July 1962, was built as part of a multi-national agreement between AT&T, Bell Telephone Laboratories, NASA, the British General Post Office, and the French National PTT (Post, Telegraph & Telecom Office)?
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Q3.
Who is quoted as saying "... advertising ... attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. ... Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little"?
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Q4.
Where do the waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet?
A
Off the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego
B
Off the southern tip of South Africa
C
Off the southern tip of Sri Lanka
D
Off the southern tip of New Zealand
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Q5.
Primogeniture is the method by which, for example, land passes from a farmer who dies intestate to his eldest son. What is the name of the method whereby the land is divided between all of the sons?
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Q6.
Until 2004, when the International Judging System (IJS) (informally called the "Code of Points") was introduced, what was the highest score a judge could award in figure skating for each of the "free skate" and the "short" programmes?
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Q7.
Which bass player, who had been a member of the Sex Pistols, died from a drug overdose in New York?
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