Daily Quiz #1902
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 3 April 2014
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1
Which one of the four provinces of Ireland includes Northern Ireland, and three counties in the Republic of Ireland?
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2
When Graeme McDowell won the US Open in 2010, he became the tournament's first golfing champion since 1970 to come from where?
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3
A 1924 enterprise in tourism in South Dakota, USA, resulted in what?
A
A campaign to save the Golden Eagle
C
Setting up Yellowstone National Park
D
Carvings of four Presidents' heads on Mt Rushmore
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4
Celebrated archaeologists Frederick Bligh Bond and later Dr C.A. Ralegh Radford excavated at Glastonbury Abbey in the 20th century searching for what remains?
A
King Arthur and Guinevere
B
The Abbey's founder King Ine of Wessex
D
The last Abbot in the 16th century, Richard Whyting
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5
What was the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, first isolated on 19 October 1943 by Albert Schatz, a graduate student, in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University?
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6
In the film "Home Alone", what is the name of the character who is left alone at Christmas, played by Macaulay Culkin?
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7
Who invented the saxophone in 1840?
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