Daily Quiz #3424
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 3 June 2018
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1
How did Nigerian man Umar Farouk Abdulmutallah make world news on 25 December 2009?
Note: This question was updated in October 2022
A
Trying to blow up an aeroplane
B
Finding, by e-mail, someone to share his family fortune
C
Shooting down Santa's sleigh
D
Leading US police on their longest recorded car chase
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2
George Orwell wrote most of his bleak dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", published in 1949, while living on which lonely and bare island in the Inner Hebrides in the south west of Scotland?
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3
What type of event is the London Marathon?
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4
Yerevan is a city in which country?
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5
Who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)?
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6
Which of these is a phrase meaning "free to go where or act as one pleases"?
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7
What is the most abundant element in the earth's crust?
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