Daily Quiz #1803
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 25 December 2013
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Q1.
In 1284, Prince Edward (later King Edward II of England), the first son born to Edward I of England, was the first English-born what?
D
Worshipful Master in Freemasonry
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2
Q2.
A sequence of overlapping and parallel mountain ranges, commonly called the American Cordillera, forms the backbone of the Americas and stretches from where to where?
B
The Yukon to New Mexico
C
British Columbia to Mexico
D
Brooks Range in Alaska, to Tierra del Fuego
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3
Q3.
What do golf balls have on the outside?
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4
Q4.
Australian Joan Sutherland is connected with what activity?
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Q5.
What links the UK television programmes Dr Who and Lewis?
A
They were both commissioned by BBC Wales
B
Kevin Whately, one of the leads in Lewis, played a dalek in an early Dr Who episode
C
The theme tunes were composed by the same person
D
Respective leads in the two series, Billie Piper and Laurence Fox, were married
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Q6.
Robert Mallet, a Victorian geophysicist, engineer and inventor, conducted a controlled experiment on a beach in southern Ireland as part of his seminal work in studying what and creating the science of what?
A
Earthquakes, and seismology
B
Tidal energy, and hydropower
C
Ecology of buccinis, and conchology
D
Erosion, and archaeology
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Q7.
Which of these words is not a conjunction?
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