Daily Quiz #5257
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 10 June 2023
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Q1.
Scottish singer, composer and music hall comedian Harry Lauder sang to troops in France during World War I and gave concerts for war charities> What happened in 1919?
A
He succumbed to the influenza pandemic which accompanied the end of the war
C
He started a career in opera
D
He became a conscientious objector
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Q2.
Which Woody Guthrie album was included on Mojo magazine's list of 100 Records That Changed The World?
B
Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child
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Q3.
In Greek mythology Argus Panoptes, guardian of the heifer-nymph Io and son of Arestor, was a primordial giant described as having multiple, often one hundred, what?
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Q4.
Which South American country stretches over 3,000 miles from north to south and less than 300 miles from east to west?
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Q5.
Which was the first Olympics to be held in a communist country?
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Q6.
Which of these is a book of the Christian and Jewish Bible?
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Q7.
What was a major significance in Europe and the western world of the book the "Liber Abaci" (1202)?
A
It introduced use of the abacus
B
It demonstrated the mathematical relationship between the circumference of a circle and its radius
C
It convincingly advocated the use of Arabic numerals in European mathematical notation
D
A discussion of the golden ratio
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