Daily Quiz #1722
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 5 October 2013
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Q1.
Which of these is a nickname for France?
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Q2.
In 1984 Anne Wood founded a company to produce children's shows for TV, the early shows from which included Pob's Programme, Playbox and Teletubbies. What was it called?
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Q3.
The hula is traditional dance from where?
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Q4.
A 2002 feature-length documentary film directed by David C. Thomas, that includes US government surveillance footage of a performance at the protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, is about which Detroit-based rock band?
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Q5.
Erik the Red was convicted of killing both Thorgest (after a dispute over a shovel) and Valthjof (who had killed some of his slaves) and banished from Iceland. He led a group of approximately 500 settlers to settle in what country?
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Q6.
Kelly Slater is both the youngest and oldest person to hold the world title in what sport?
Note: This question was updated in July 2022
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Q7.
What part of an egg does albumen come from?
Note: This question was updated in July 2022
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