Daily Quiz #346
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 29 December 2009
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1
What is the name given to the silent electrical discharge between the atmosphere and, for example, trees, ships' masts, steeples and flagpoles?
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2
Joseph Smith is known as the founder of what movement?
C
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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3
Which of these was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, political activist and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005?
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4
Michael Keaton starred in which film as a spirit who makes a living from scaring people?
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5
At the opening ceremony of every Olympic Games when the athletes parade into the stadium, what is traditionally the first nation to enter?
Note: This question was updated in December 2013
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6
Which monotheistic, Abrahamic religious movement accepts Haile Selassie I, the former and final Emperor of Ethiopia, as the incarnation of God, called Jah?
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7
Where are Southampton Island and the King George Islands?
B
Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada
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