Daily Quiz #3501
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 19 August 2018
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Q2.
About 90% of the world's extractable material, used for the manufacture of ornamental objects and jewellery, is in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia on the Baltic Sea. What type of material is this?
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Q3.
When the Ashmolean opened in Oxford in 1683, it was one of Great Britain's first what?
B
Zoological gardens for public use
D
Plant research institutes
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Q4.
What electricity voltage is provided as mains power in the USA?
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Q5.
Which of these terms refers to part of a cricket pitch?
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Q6.
In classical architecture, what is the plain-faced portion, usually rectangular, of a pedestal between the base and the cornice?
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Q7.
The two older brothers of Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist, built up an empire called Branobel based on what?
A
Manufacture of dynamite
C
Plywood units for residential construction
D
Oil deposits in Baku on the Caspian Sea
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