Daily Quiz #2297
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 3 May 2015
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Q1.
Where is the newspaper "The Village Voice" published?
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Q2.
What is the inherited condition that causes the body to retain copper, which can lead to brain and liver damage?
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Q3.
John Adams, second President of the newly independent United States of America, was also which of these?
A
Author of "Watership Down" and "The Plague Dogs"
C
Pitcher in American National League baseball
D
First American Ambassador to Great Britain
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Q4.
Which British sprinter returned to competition in 1997 after a 4 year ban due to doping offences?
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Q5.
In 1998 who sold her Union Jack mini dress in a charity auction to Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas for a record £41,320, which broke the Guinness World Record for the most expensive piece of pop star clothing ever sold?
A
Melanie Chisholm (Mel C)
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Q6.
The most immediate sea to the east of Drake Passage, south of South America, is what?
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Q7.
What is an epic poem from Ancient Iraq, originally titled "He who Saw the Deep" or "Surpassing All Other Kings", of which the most complete version exists on 12 clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BCE Assyrian king Ashurbanipal?
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