Daily Quiz #3201
General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 23 October 2017
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1
The mantilla is a type of what?
A
A pasta, round in section and thicker than spaghetti
B
A dance characterized by a fast upbeat tempo
D
Scarf worn over the head and shoulders
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2
Which of these is a Spanish possession on the African continent?
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3
Which game uses the term "pung"?
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4
Which American lexicographer also published a popular and influential speller, grammar book and reader for elementary age students?
D
William Adolphus Wheeler
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5
What is the nationality of former US Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali?
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6
What is another term for an "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms"?
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7
Where or when is Joseph Heller's novel, "Catch-22" (1961), set?
A
A fishing trip with Ernest Hemingway
C
In a tuberculosis sanatorium
D
Moth hunting in the Amazon rain forest
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