Daily Quiz #2014
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 24 July 2014
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Q1.
Which of these created a popular detective character with the first name of "Jane"?
Note: This question was updated in May 2023
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Q2.
Who formally became Emperor of Japan in 1926 and became its constitutional monarch in 1946?
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Q3.
The London production of which play by acclaimed Australian playwright, David Williamson, won him the George Devine Award, the first time for a non-UK writer?
Note: This question was updated in May 2023
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Q4.
The tiny Socotra archipelago, inhabited since the early stone age and once an integral part of trade networks in the area, lies where?
A
24 kilometres (15 mi) east of Somalia
B
380 kilometres (240 mi) south of the Arabian Peninsula
C
24 kilometres (15 mi) west of Gibraltar
D
380 kilometres (240 mi) south of Sri Lanka
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Q5.
What is not usually a phrase for which the acronym PDF is used?
B
Portable document format
C
Planar deformation features
D
Professional Drivers' Foundation
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Q6.
Where would you meet the terms straight rail, cushion, balkline, artistic and cowboy?
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Q7.
The longest word included in English language dictionaries, and probably contrived to be so, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. What does it mean?
Note: This question was updated in July 2021
A
Matter ejected during an eruption
B
A lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs
C
An eye disease that causes a permanent squint
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