Daily Quiz #2150
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 7 December 2014
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Q1.
What is the main feature of the design of a "Riparium"?
B
Circulating current through different-levelled pools
C
The mostly submerged area of a wetland or freshwater shore habitat
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Q2.
What links a 1999 version of Richard Adams's work "Watership Down" and a 1984 version of Lewis Carroll's work "The Hunting of the Snark"?
A
Mike Batt, composer of the sound track
B
Henry Holliday, illustrator
C
They were both animated films
D
Billy Connolly sang in the sound track
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Q3.
A New Zealand squash player who dominated the sport in the late 1980s and early 1990s, winning the World Open 4 times, is Susan who?
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Q4.
The international abbreviation "CH" represents which country?
Note: This question was updated in May 2023
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Q5.
Where is the Ross Sea?
C
A branch of the Mediterranean
D
A branch of the North Sea
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Q6.
Pol Pot became the de facto leader of which country in mid-1975, forcing city dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in "Year Zero", which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people, approximately 21% of the population?
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Q7.
Who was known as the shoe bomber, who in 2003 was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to destroy a commercial aircraft in-flight by detonating explosives hidden in his shoes, which led to the requirement of US airline passengers having to remove their shoes for inspection before boarding?
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