Daily Quiz #2923
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 18 January 2017
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Q1.
Which musical, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows, is based on two short stories by Damon Runyon ("The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure")?
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Q2.
A player from which nation or nations is the 2016 World Champion of the board game Diplomacy?
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Q3.
Throat-singing, where a singer produces two or more notes simultaneously, is used mostly in which areas?
A
Parts of Central Asia, northern Canada and South Africa
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Q4.
What organisation financed Henry Hudson's voyage when he explored much of what is now Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay in 1610?
C
Virginia Company with the British East India Company
D
Dutch East India Company
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Q5.
What is the official capital of Sri Lanka?
C
Sri Jayawardenepura-Kotte
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Q6.
The film actor Marion Michael Morrison is better known by what name?
Note: This question was updated in June 2022
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Q7.
What instrument was used to measure accurately, small differences in vertical heights?
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