Daily Quiz #3562
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 19 October 2018
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Q1.
New York businessman and gambler Arnold Rothstein was believed to have been behind baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which the 1919 World Series was fixed, giving the series to which team?
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2
Q2.
Which ITV live morning magazine programme has screened, as at 2018, for thirty years?
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3
A
The language of nomadic tribes in the north of Mongolia
B
An Inuit dialect exclusive to Greenland
C
Women's literary language in the courts of 11th century Japan
D
An ancient written language exclusively for women, used in southern China
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Q4.
What defines a species?
A
There is no hard and fast definition yet
B
The ability for individuals to interbreed naturally
C
Organisms which share at least 10 common physical characteristics
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5
Q5.
Which country in the Central America isthmus borders a country in continental South America?
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Q6.
Which American comedian who died on 4 May 2009 became famous as an inept magician on Dean Martin's TV show in the 1960s and appeared in "Cannonball Run", "Blazing Saddles" and "The Muppet Movie" ?
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Q7.
Where did France begin its acquisitions in its first French Colonial Empire?
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