Daily Quiz #3442
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 21 June 2018
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Q1.
What are Soohorang and Bandabi, the official mascots for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics respectively?
A
A polar bear and a snow leopard
B
A white tiger and an Asiatic black bear
D
A ray of light and a snowflake
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Q2.
What Western Christian military order, which existed for approximately two centuries in the Middle Ages, was endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church around 1129?
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Q3.
Which different characters with the same name were played in films with the same title by Richard Roundtree in 1971 and Samuel L Jackson in 2000?
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Q4.
Where were descendants of intermarriage between Arawak and Carib Indians and Nigerian ex-slaves originally found?
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Q5.
What was the now-extinct New Zealand huia?
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Q6.
Which ingredient particularly distinguishes béarnaise sauce from hollandaise sauce?
C
Fresh tarragon and other herbs
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Q7.
Which German was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF & UHF radio waves?
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