Daily Quiz #83
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 10 April 2009
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Q1.
What event affecting television happened in the United States on 8 September 2008 and in Canada on 31 August 2011?
Note: This question was updated in August 2016
A
Beginning of cessation of analog transmissions
B
Deregulation of broadcasting organisations
D
Legislation requiring broadcasts in ethnic languages
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2
Q2.
What disaster occurred on the San Andreas Fault in 1906?
D
San Francisco earthquake
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Q3.
In the TV series "The Flintstones", who were the parents of Pebbles and Bam Bam?
B
Fred & Wilma (Pebbles); Barney & Betty (Bam Bam)
D
Fred & Wilma (Bam Bam); Barney & Betty (Pebbles)
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4
Q4.
What was the occupation of Vaslav Nijinsky from 1908?
C
Dancer and choreographer
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5
Q5.
What was the first combat aircraft to provide cabin pressurisation for the crew?
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Q6.
Middelburg is the capital of which province in the South West of The Netherlands?
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Q7.
What tennis tournament, first played in 1877, is the oldest in the world?
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