Daily Quiz #2851
General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 7 November 2016
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Q1.
What name was given to the civil war in England during the reign of Stephen?
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Q2.
When Spanish commander de Heredia founded a city in 1533 on an indigenous village in a bay in the north-west of what is now Colombia what was the source of the name he gave to it?
A
The city of Carthage, Tunisia
B
The city of Medellín, Spain
C
Bacatá, the indigenous name for the area
D
"Barranca", the Spanish word for the nearby canyons
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Q3.
The chemical messenger that transports signals from one cell to another, called phytohormone in plants, is called what in animals?
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Q4.
In which British sitcom does a draughtsman give up his job to live a self-sufficient lifestyle, planting fruit and vegetables, and running chickens, pigs and a goat in the garden, to the horror of their next-door neighbours?
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Q5.
What is a "carillon"?
A
A church built as a memorial
B
A set of bells played by a keyboard
C
A method of preparing lobster
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Q6.
Which of these qualities are actor Geoffrey Rush, artist David Hockney, composer Alexander Scriabin, writer Vladimir Nabokov, and poet Bob Dylan understood to have shared?
A
Mild scoliosis of the spine
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Q7.
In 1899 Jim Jeffries, the champion at the time, competed against Tom Sharkey on Coney Island, New York, in what discipline?
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