Daily Quiz #2900
General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 26 December 2016
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Q1.
Two of the three tallest mountain peaks in Africa are in which country?
Note: This question was updated in August 2017
D
Democratic Republic of Congo
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Q2.
The stoop, or dive, of which bird can reach more than 330 km/h (205 mph)?
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Q3.
Sarah Radclyffe and who else was behind the 1983 formation of Working Films, which was the company behind films such as "My Beautiful Laundrette", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "The Big Lebowski", "The Theory of Everything" and "The Danish Girl"?
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Q4.
Who, with his crew, was credited as being the first person to circumnavigate the continents of North and South America, including a transit of the Northwest Passage?
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Q5.
What colour or colours predominate in Aubrey Beardsley's works?
A
Pale blue, green and gold
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Q6.
Which of these is the highest poker hand?
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Q7.
What was the destination of a number of caged chickens which were found abandoned, starving, dehydrated, and (in the case of 35 of them) drowned, in the streets of Brooklyn, New York, in late 2005?
A
A Williamsburg egg-producing farm
B
The Denbight & Flint poultry show
C
The local Kentucky Fried Chicken slaughter house
D
Use in a Jewish atonement ritual
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