Daily Quiz #1224
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 25 May 2012
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Q1.
What phrase means "on the brink of failure"?
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Q2.
What is the more common name for polytetrafluoroethylene?
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Q3.
A "land run" into which current state of the USA began at noon on 22 April 1889, when an estimated 50,000 people lined up to race to claim 160 acre (0.65 km2) pieces of the available 2 million acres (8,000 km²)?
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Q4.
After 97 years since being installed on a rock in Copenhagen harbour, the statue of "The Little Mermaid" left its place in April 2010 to go where?
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Q5.
Who was the merchant sea-captain who made the first American circumnavigation of the world in 1790, and is known for trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the fur trade in that region?
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Q6.
The Jefferson Memorial, completed in 1943, is in which city?
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Edge Hill, Woodford, Virginia
D
San Francisco, California
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Q7.
What is an expression used to describe across a number of different sports the apparent loss of certain fine motor skills seemingly without explanation?
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