Daily Quiz Daily

Our daily general knowledge quiz

Quiz Archive Archive

A complete history of our quiz challenges

By Subject Subjects

Choose from seven quiz categories

Personalised Personalised

Build a quiz by subject and difficulty

Daily Quiz #2150

General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 7 December 2014

A new general knowledge quiz is available every day. Try today's quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.

0 out of ?

Q1. What is the main feature of the design of a "Riparium"?

A
Live aquatic animals
B
Circulating current through different-levelled pools
C
The mostly submerged area of a wetland or freshwater shore habitat
D
A dry habitat
Select from the options above.

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
Select from the options above.

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?

A
De Rigeur
B
De Maupassant
C
De Lorean
D
Devoy
Select from the options above.

Q4. The international abbreviation "CH" represents which country?

Note: This question was updated in May 2023
A
Switzerland
B
The Czech Republic
C
Chad
D
Iceland
Select from the options above.

Q5. Where is the Ross Sea?

A
Antarctic Ocean
B
Arctic Ocean
C
A branch of the Mediterranean
D
A branch of the North Sea
Select from the options above.

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?

A
Egypt
B
India
C
China
D
Cambodia
Select from the options above.

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?

A
Noel Maguire
B
Richard Reid
C
Jemaah Islamiyah
D
Nizar Trabelsi
Select from the options above.
0%
There are 0 questions in this quiz.
You've completed 0 questions.
You've answered 0 questions correctly.
You've answered 0 questions incorrectly.