Daily Quiz #127
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 24 May 2009
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Q1.
What reptile, of which there are two living species, the American and the Chinese, got its name from the Spanish for lizard?
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Q2.
How many states are there in Australia?
Note: This question was updated in November 2014
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Q3.
Quickly is what part of speech?
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Q4.
What was the first Olympics to be boycotted by nations that had previously competed?.
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Q5.
Which Scotsman was given a ship by Americans to harass English shipping near Great Britain, and later became an admiral in the Russian Navy of Catherine The Great?
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Q6.
Who "packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus"?
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Q7.
Which US State ended prohibition in November 1948, a law that had been in place there for 68 years?
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