Daily Quiz #4795
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 5 March 2022
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Q1.
In 1964, Larisa Latynina, who had represented the USSR and the Ukraine in gymnastics, achieved what Olympic record?
A
Won medals by competing for 4 different countries
B
Competed in the most Olympic Games
C
Holding the most Olympic medals in any field
D
Won medals for competing in both track and field and gymnastics
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Q2.
Which branch of astronomy studies radiation with wavelengths greater than approximately one millimetre?
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Q3.
"The Edge of Love" (2008), a film starring Matthew Rhys, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy & Keira Knightley, is biographical about which couple?
A
King Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson
B
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles
C
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin
D
Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
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Q4.
In France, which of these establishments specialises in selling pastries and sweets?
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Q5.
In which state of the USA is the private research university known as M. I. T.?
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Q6.
In September 1905 the government of New South Wales, Australia, voted to buy 1,000 miles of netting in attempt to control what?
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Q7.
Which Italian nobel prize winner (1934) wrote novels such as "Mal Gioconda" and switched to writing plays in 1910?
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