Daily Quiz #2112
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 30 October 2014
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Q1.
The Victoria Falls are on the border of Zimbabwe and which other country?
Note: This question was updated in June 2015
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Q2.
If you divide a prime number by 4, the answer must result in … ?
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Q3.
What, in 1337, caused the Hundred Years' War between France and England?
Note: This question was updated in September 2023
A
France adopted the Salic Law concerning royal succession
B
French king Philip VI claimed the English throne
C
English king Edward III claimed the French throne
D
A dispute over trading rights
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Q4.
What is the name of the stadium in The Bronx in New York City which was the home baseball park of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 2008?
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Q5.
Vlastimil Hart together with 11 colleagues won the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for documenting what in relation to dogs?
A
Friction between a banana skin and the floor when a dog steps on it
B
Treating dogs' "uncontrollable" nosebleeds, by nasal-packing-with-strips-of-cured-pork
C
When dogs defecate/urinate, they prefer to align the body with Earth's north-south geomagnetic axis
D
How dogs react when seeing a human dressed up as a cat
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Q6.
What genre best describes the 1967-72 UK TV series Callan?
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Q7.
What does one usually do with a rutabaga?
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