Daily Quiz #1162
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 24 March 2012
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1
In medicine, what does "GP" mean?
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2
"Kraal" is an Afrikaans and South African English word for what?
A
An enclosure for livestock
B
A jazz singer who plays the piano
D
A bird from the partridge family
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3
What card game uses a scoreboard with holes and pegs?
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4
Who is credited with inventing the gyroscope?
Note: This question was updated in June 2015
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5
The airship L.19, a World War 1 Zeppelin of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) came down in the North Sea while returning from her first bombing raid on the United Kingdom during the night of 1/2 February 1916. What was the controversy following this incident?
A
The crew survived but drowned when a British vessel refused to rescue them
B
3 Dutch rescue vessels were dragged underwater
C
The crew came ashore at Norfolk and shot 5 civilians
D
The flaming wreck sank a German battleship
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6
Which of these is displayed in Florence?
A
Andy Warhol's "100 Soup Cans"
B
Leonardo da Vinci's "The Mona Lisa"
C
Pablo Picasso's "Guernica"
D
Michelangelo's statue of David
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7
In the UK, the Ordnance Survey is an executive agency of government that is one of the world's largest producers of what?
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