Daily Quiz #2020
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 30 July 2014
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Q1.
Cable News Network (CNN), the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, was founded by Ted Turner in what year?
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Q2.
Who was the first person to refuse an Academy Award for Best Actor?
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Q3.
What is the name for radiations of a wavelength shorter than, and immediately next to, the visible spectrum?
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Q4.
What replaced the Cyclops computer system, that helps to determine whether a serve is in or out, at the US Open in 2006 and the Wimbledon Championships in 2007?
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Q5.
A traditional music ensemble from Indonesia, featuring instruments such as xylophones, gongs, bells, bamboo flutes, and strings is known as what?
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Q6.
Miners trapped underground in Chile in August 2010 received help and advice from which of these organisations?
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Q7.
Which of these is a country on the continent of Africa?
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