Daily Quiz #3529
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 16 September 2018
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1
What spirit is traditionally made from maize grain, flavoured with juniper berries?
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2
In the 19th century in Europe, cubebs, known as Piper cubeba, tailed pepper, or Java pepper, were thought to be possibly a useful medicine in the treatment of what?
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3
Which city has "areas" called Burdiehouse, Clermiston, Corstorphine, Dumbiedykes, The Grange, Haymarket, Hermiston, Holyrood, Inverleith, Jock's Lodge, Leith, Meadowbank, Murrayfield, Oxgangs, Pilrig, Portobello, Riccarton, Shandon and Tynecastle?
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4
Which 1952 film, directed by Vittorio de Sica, was about a penniless old man (played by Carlo Battisti) and his dog, Flick?
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5
Who wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"?
D
Robert Louis Stephenson
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6
When was the Heian period in Japan, named after the imperial city at the time (modern Kyoto)?
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7
Why did the International Olympics Committee ban Russian athletes from competing under the Russian flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil?
A
Previous long-term state-sponsored doping of Russian athletes
B
Russia had excluded Muslims from the team
C
The Russian Olympic Committee had not paid its subscription
D
None of the athletes qualified
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