Daily Quiz #2299
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 5 May 2015
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Q1.
Canis Major is also known as what?
Note: This question was updated in March 2022
C
The Great, or Greater, Dog
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2
Q2.
In 1985, Barbara Dickson released "I Know Him So Well" from the musical Chess, which remains the biggest-selling record by a female duo, with what other singer?
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3
Q3.
Who was the first soccer player to win 100 caps for England?
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Q4.
The Bering Sea is named after what or whom?
A
Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator in Russian service, the first European to explore it
B
A misspelling of "bear", after the large colony of bears who lived on the Alaskan shores
C
A experimental bee farm on its islands, which failed because of difficulties with climate
D
To distinguish it from Barents Sea
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Q5.
In 2014 and 2015 Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo were, sadly, linked by what?
Note: This question was updated in May 2018
A
Mourning for air crash victims
B
An epidemic of infections from the Ebola virus
C
The bottom's falling out of the futures market
D
Prolonged and major forest fires
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Q6.
What fully-fledged fictional language, which has a number of typologically uncommon features, was deliberately designed to be "non-human" by Marc Okrand?
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Q7.
What in the UK is referred to as "grilling" is called what in the USA?
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