Daily Quiz #2351
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 26 June 2015
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Q1.
Portree is the principal town on which island?
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2
Q2.
Who did the British fight at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879?
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3
Q3.
The makers of MMs refused to allow the sweet to be associated with what 1982 US film, because they believed one of the characters was so ugly that children, who were the film's intended main audience, would be terrified?
A
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
B
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
C
Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan
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4
Q4.
In 1991 Magic Johnson stunned the sporting world in the USA by what?
C
Switching to the discipline of AFL
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Q5.
Who described "unified field theory", an attempt to unify and simplify the fundamental laws of physics, in a paper titled "On The Generalised Theory of Gravitation" in 1950?
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Q6.
George Bush, then vice president, asked which of these people to be his running mate for the 1988 presidential election?
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Q7.
Parsley is the main ingredient of which of these sauces?
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