Daily Quiz #2000
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 10 July 2014
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Q1.
What tool contains a bubble to show accurate horizontal and vertical settings?
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Q2.
In which sea is the country of Grenada?
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Q3.
In October 2010 it was announced that the longest genome (genetic code) of any organism belonged to what?
Note: This question was updated in January 2024
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Q4.
At 9.00 a.m. on 27 August 1896, after Khalid bin Bargash ignored a British ultimatum to leave the Beit al Hukum Palace, Royal Navy ships opened fire. Khalid's troops returned fire. A cease fire was declared at 9.45 a.m., giving the bombardment the title of "The Shortest War in History". Where was this?
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Q5.
A standard archery target is marked with how many evenly spaced concentric rings?
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Q6.
"The lady doth protest too much" is a comment on whom?
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A character in The Massacre at Paris
C
Nurse in Romeo and Juliet
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Q7.
Who principally studied transplant rejection and immunosuppression after World War II, which led him to perform the first successful living kidney transplant in the UK on 30 October 1960?
Note: This question was updated in February 2024
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