Daily Quiz #2853
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 9 November 2016
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Q1.
What event affecting television happened in the United States on 8 September 2008 and in Canada on 31 August 2011?
A
Beginning of cessation of analog transmissions
B
Deregulation of broadcasting organisations
D
Legislation requiring broadcasts in ethnic languages
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2
Q2.
What is a set of table top games simulating team sports such as soccer, cricket, both rugby and hockey, and closely associated with soccer, which for many years was marketed as "the replica of Association Football"?
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Q3.
Who was the king of England who succeeded James I?
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4
Q4.
What does the Little Abbay river flow into?
A
Lake Victoria, Uganda / Kenya / Tanzania
C
Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania / Democratic Republic of the Congo / Burundi / Zambia
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Q5.
Which of these dogs was the main character in Jack London's book, "The Call of the Wild"?
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Q6.
What name is given by scholars to the first 6 books of the Old Testament of the Bible?
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Q7.
In 2011 in response to prolonged allegations by Republican Donald Trump that President Barack Obama was not qualified to be president because he was not American, Obama published what?
A
His recipe for pumpkin pie
B
A video of him winning a burger eating contest when he was 19
C
The long form of his birth certificate
D
His family tree showing his direct descent from Chief Sitting Bull
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