Daily Quiz #2002
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 12 July 2014
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Q1.
After the signing of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, Mubarak Al-Sabah was recognised by the Ottomans and British as the ruler of the autonomous caza of which city and its hinterlands?
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Q2.
Where would you find a person called a seamer?
Note: This question was updated in August 2023
C
In a factory for tin cans
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Q3.
Why, during World War I, were some munition workers nicknamed "canary girls" or simply "canaries"?
A
They sang to ensure that they didn't bump into each other when their vision was obscured
B
They wore yellow overalls
C
Handling TNT can cause the skin to turn bright yellow-orange
D
They did most of their work in blast-proof cages
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Q4.
Siberia is geographically part of which area?
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Q5.
Which is the participle in the sentence "he brought the required documents"?
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Q6.
Which of these is Japanese chanted poetry drama, using masks and originally devised for aristocratic audiences?
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Q7.
The father of which ex prime minister of the UK was a trapeze artist and a garden gnome salesman?
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