Daily Quiz #4590
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 12 August 2021
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1
Q1.
The Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, is also partly in which of these states?
C
None: It is all in Arizona
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2
Q2.
Where, in 1857, was there a brutal and unsuccessful uprising against British control, with estimates of the number of deaths in the hundreds of thousands?
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3
Q3.
Who caused a scandal when, on 2 February 1950, she gave birth to the son of Italian film director Roberto Rossellini while married to neurosurgeon Peter Lindstrom?
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4
Q4.
What part of the body is affected by the condition called rickets?
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5
Q5.
Which of these fictional characters was created by Ruth Rendell?
A
Superintendent Jack Meadows
B
Chief Inspector Dreyfus
D
Detective Inspector Wexford
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6
Q6.
The annual BBC Sports Personality award was first given in 1954 and as at 2020 includes how many other categories?
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Q7.
What is trokosi as practised among the Ewe people in Benin, Togo and Ghana?
B
Ritual tattooing of religious initiates
C
Lighting incense sticks to the ancestors
D
Paying for sin by sending a young girl into permanent bondage to priests in a shrine
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