Daily Quiz #2404
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 18 August 2015
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1
What name is given to someone who enforces racing rules and regulations at many types of race track?
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2
Which of these events in World War II occurred first?
A
Signing of the final documents for the surrender of Japan
B
Announcement that the Armistice between Italy and the Allied armed forces had been signed
C
D-Day landings by the Allies in Normandy, northern France
D
Invasion of continental Italy by Allied Forces
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3
What is the name of the garden created in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson that is designed as a series of "rooms", each with a different character of colour and/or theme, divided by high clipped hedges and pink brick walls?
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4
Who made the first, in western countries, practical successful and widely usable vaccinations in 1796 against smallpox?
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5
Which is the style of music, characterised by staccato offbeat rhythms, and owing much to the influence of mento, jazz, ska and rhythm and blues?
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6
What is an affliction of nose, throat, upper air passages and eyes caused by over-sensitivity to proteins of pollen in certain plants?
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7
How old was Kurt Cobain when he died?
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