Daily Quiz #5522
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 1 March 2024
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Q1.
When something is referred to as mumblecore, what is it likely to be?
B
Any badly delivered speech
C
Junior coral growth on a reef
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Q2.
With what decade was the Dust Bowl, the period of prolonged dust storms and severe drought, in the USA and Canada mainly associated?
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Q3.
Zonker, Boopsie and Roland Hedley appear in which comic strip?
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Q4.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics, why did the Russian Federation file an (unsuccessful) protest over the women's 100m hurdles, delaying the medal ceremony by a day?
A
The hurdles were not to the correct height
B
American Joanna Hayes had made rude comments to Russian Irina Shevchenko at the start
C
Canadian Perdita Felicien fell on the first hurdle and took Russian Irina Shevchenko with her
D
During the race, some of the hurdles fell over in the strong wind
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Q6.
In late 2021 the first orally administered treatment to combat a virus was announced. Which virus?
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Q7.
Whose fictionalised account of a interview by Harold Bloom with Benzion Netanyahu and his family, including his son, Benjamin Netanyahu, at an upstate New York college in the late 1950s won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
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