Daily Quiz #3170
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 22 September 2017
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1
What are Omo I and Omo II, discovered by Richard Leakey in southern Ethiopia?
D
Previously unknown species of hyena
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2
What is the format for winning the World Chess Championships?
A
8-player double round-robin tournament
B
Single-elimination tournament with finals best-of-6 + tiebreaks
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3
A type of behaviour characterised by living together in mutigenerational colonies headed by one productive female, cooperative brood care, individuals with specialised non-transferable skills, is known as what?
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4
Who is the "I" in Roald Dahl's book "Danny, Champion of the World"?
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5
Which of these statements is incorrect?
A
The square of an odd number is always an even number
B
The sum of two whole numbers, whether they are odd or even, is always a whole number
C
The sum of two numbers, where both are either odd or even, is always an even number
D
The sum of an even number and an odd number is always an odd number
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6
In the Greek pantheon, whose daughter was Panacea (the goddess of universal remedy)?
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7
Which river has its source in the Fuente de García, Aragon, near the Mediterranean and flows after 626 miles (1,007 km) across Spain and Portugal into the Atlantic?
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