Daily Quiz #2505
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 27 November 2015
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1
Düsseldorf is a major city in which country?
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2
What BBC documentary film, screened in high definition and featuring narration and live orchestral accompaniment conducted by its composer George Fenton, had its world première in Dallas in June 2010?
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3
The Rance Barrage is the first example of what?
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4
"Why don't you come up sometime and see me" was a famous line by Mae West in the 1933 film "She Done Him Wrong". Which actor did she say it to?
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5
In 2005 Karina Hollekim performed what, the first woman to do so?
A
Jet-powered wingsuit flight
B
Wingsuit flight of more than 30 km
D
BASE jumping from Mt Everest's north face
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6
What is the biological term for T H Huxley's theory that all living cells and organisms orginate from pre-existing living matter, not as the result of spontaneous generation?
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7
How did the Russian physicist and politician, Boris Nemtsov, die in February 2015?
A
He was shot in the back near the Red Square in Moscow
B
He died of pancreatic cancer
C
He fell off a bridge near the Kremlin and drowned
D
He overdosed on vitamins
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