Daily Quiz #2123
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Q1. Samoa, Hawaii and the Tokelau Islands are part of which geographic area?
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Q2. The song "They're Coming To Take Me Away ha haaa" was banned by the BBC in 1966. Who was the artist?
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Q3. Aeschylus, Greek religious thinker and playwright, was killed when a tortoise hit him on the head. How did the tortoise land there?
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Q4. A growth rate stated as 1 + half + a third + a quarter +... is what kind of growth?
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Q5. A sporting event involves propelling an object the most accurately, yet there are no uniform standards for it. What is the object, traditionally around 5-6 m (16-20 feet) long and weighing around 35-60 kg (80-130 pounds)?
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Q6. What does patrology mean?
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Q7. Which English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets, was praised because "his experimental explorations in prosody ... and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse"?
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