Daily Quiz #2975
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 11 March 2017
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1
Q1.
Which of these is German wine?
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2
Q2.
Where is it possible to see a solenodon in its native habitat?
A
Borneo and the Philippines
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3
Q3.
What was the title of the film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood that was about a thinly disguised episode in John Huston's life?
A
Making of the African Queen
B
White Hunter, Black Heart
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4
Q4.
In 1972 Dr Ananda Chakrabarty became the first to do what?
A
Define the Gaia hypothesis
B
Engineer a bacterium to produce human insulin
C
Use the immunosuppressive effect of ciclosporin after organ transplant surgery
D
Design a genetically modified microbe which was patented
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5
Q5.
Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia and what other country are on the Horn of Africa?
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6
Q6.
What was worn by the leader of the first Tour de France?
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7
Q7.
When the New Zealand Minister of Finance in 1944 called an effect of an 1881 Act a ‘blot on our legislation' what was he referring to?
A
A poll tax to deter Chinese immigrants
B
Restrictions on Maori serving in the New Zealand army
C
Capital punishment for murderers
D
Barring women other than property owners from voting
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