Daily Quiz #4725
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 25 December 2021
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Q1.
Which of these items used to be part of some kinds of typewriter?
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2
Q2.
The era of political liberalisation in Czechoslovakia in 1968 was called what?
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3
Q3.
Who is remembered in the name for the "cold rain" process, the process by which precipitation starts in a mixed cloud with a temperature below freezing, e.g. how ice crystals grow at the expense of liquid cloud droplets within the cloud?
B
Bert Holtslag and Byron Boville
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4
Q4.
Baffin Bay is on which continent?
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5
Q5.
In cricket, what term is used to describe the situation when a batsman is "out" for no score in both innings of the same two-innings match?
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6
Q6.
What song was a UK #1 hit for Mike and the Mechanics in 1989?
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Q7.
Equipment launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in December 2021 was designed to do what?
A
Experiment with all-electric airplane flight
B
Observe the near-earth asteroid 4660 Nereus
C
Replace the aging Hubble Telescope
D
Be one of three flights gathering data to provide a foundation for human deep space exploration
Select from the options above.