Daily Quiz #2023
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 2 August 2014
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Q1.
When was the Sûreté, initially the criminal investigative bureau of the Paris police, founded?
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Q2.
Who has the line "Is this a dagger which I see before me" in a Shakespearean play?
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Q3.
Behourd, quintain, mêlée, and hastilude are terms relating to what?
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Embroidery of murals commemorating famous battles
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A mediaeval religious ritual in Macedonia
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Q4.
When the Chinese Nationalist Party lost the civil war to the Communist Party in 1949, it relocated to which island and established Taipei as the Republic Of China's provisional capital?
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Q5.
When SARS was discovered in 2003 it was only the third human coronavirus known, but by the end of 2012 a further three had been identified including one now known as MERS; what coronavirus is MERS most closely related to?
Note: This question was updated in July 2016
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Q6.
Robert de Vere was an advisor and companion to which English king?
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Q7.
The Himalayas and Tien Shan, or Tian Shan, lie north and south of which other major mountain range?
Note: This question was updated in January 2016
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