Daily Quiz #4700
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 30 November 2021
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1
Q1.
Who wrote the influential book "Areopagitica"?
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2
Q2.
Where is the opera "Dialogues of the Carmelites" set?
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3
Q3.
When was Berlin's Tegel Airport first given its time-saving hexagonal terminal complex, and substantially increased in capacity, function, international use and runway length?
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4
Q4.
Why was NBA player Kyrie Irving, a player with the Brooklyn Nets and 7-time NBA All-Star, excluded from practising and playing with his team in October 2021?
A
Funding for sports fell sharply in mid 2021
B
He had not had a vaccine against COVID-19
C
He was late in paying his membership fee for his sports federation
D
He had made a racist tweet
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5
Q5.
Where are bascules found?
D
In bridges with a span which can be swung upwards
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6
Q6.
Which of these is a breed of dog?
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7
Q7.
Near Lubumbashi (once named Élisabethville), third largest city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the dark conical slag mountain which has been celebrated on a bank note was originally formed from nearly 70 years of mining for what?
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