Daily Quiz #12
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 29 January 2009
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Q1.
In 1956, British and French forces invaded a country in North Africa due to a dispute over which engineering work?
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Ethiopian oil refinery complez
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Q2.
In which 1988 Academy Award-winning film did Dustin Hoffman play a character with special mental powers called Raymond Babbitt?
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Q3.
Which of these has the lowest population destiny?
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Q4.
Who won the Formula One Championship in 2008?
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Q5.
What was the name of the IBM computer that defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997?
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Q6.
The film actor Julia Elizabeth Wells is better known by what name?
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Q7.
What is the world's only alpine parrot?
Note: This question was updated in May 2015
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