Daily Quiz #2430
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 13 September 2015
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Q1.
Which supertanker carrying 120,000 tons of crude oil was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England in March 1967, resulting in Blackburn Buccaneer planes dropping forty-two 1,000lb bombs on it?
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Q2.
Which is the preposition in the tongue twister "She sells sea shells by the sea shore"?
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Q3.
Which of these capitals is the most northern?
Note: This question was updated in August 2022
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Q4.
Who wrote "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van"?
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Q5.
Which New Zealand-born and New York-based artist, known for his kinetic sculpture produced between 1950 and 1980, also made films, applying dyes, stencils, air-brushes and other objects directly to celluloid?
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Q6.
Which of these sports uses a round ball?
D
Australian Rules Football
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Q7.
A waterbear or moss piglet, otherwise known as a tardigrade, is a minute extremophile organism. Which of these can it survive?
B
Water temperature ranging from absolute zero to boiling point
C
Pressure 6 times greater than in the deepest ocean, radiation 100-fold higher than lethal for humans
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