Daily Quiz #2687
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 27 May 2016
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Q1.
The mountainous country which begins as the Cordillera de Guanacaste rising in the north of Costa Rica, continuing into the Cordillera de Talamanca, peters out where?
A
East of the Panama Canal
B
West of the Panama Canal
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Q2.
Where were the first world championships for mountain bike racing, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 1990, held?
A
Turkey Mountain, Tulsa, Oklahoma
B
Oak Mountain State Park, Pelham, Alabama
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Q3.
What does term "monorchid" describe?
A
Having only a single colour
B
An orchid which carries only one flower in a season
C
Having only a single testicle in the scrotum
D
Wearing spectacles with only one prescription lens
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Q4.
Which UK television series was, unusually, adapted from a US series of the same name?
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Q5.
In 1989 Carlo Petrini founded what?
D
The Kenyan National Transplant Centre
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Q6.
The Boston Tea Party, where tea was tipped into the harbour to protest taxation, precipitated what historical event?
D
Assassination of John F Kennedy
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Q7.
What role did John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719) fill in Great Britain?
A
Archbishop of Canterbury
D
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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