Daily Quiz #1638
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 13 July 2013
A new general knowledge quiz is available every day. Try today's quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.
1
Which ex Formula One driver competed in the World Rally Championship in 2010?
Select from the options above.
2
After the murder of his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, Richard John Bingham disappeared on 8 November 1974, was presumed deceased on 11 December 1992 and declared legally dead in October 1999. By what name is he better known?
Select from the options above.
3
Whose work "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine, became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s?
Select from the options above.
4
Which of these distances is the longest?
A
London to Edinburgh, UK
B
Cairo to Khartoum, Africa
C
Chicago to New York, USA
D
Perth to Sydney, Australia.
Select from the options above.
5
What is the meaning of the German word "ausgang"?
Select from the options above.
6
In what country, between the 1950s and 1980, would one have found "Rusticated Youth"?
Select from the options above.
7
In the 18th century John Harrison solved the problem of determining longitude at sea using what instrument?
Select from the options above.
