Daily Quiz #3605
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 1 December 2018
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1
The vast swathe of mostly treeless grassland plains which stretches west to east across central Asia is usually called what?
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2
The "A" in "AGM" stands for what sort of General Meeting?
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3
In the Olympic shot put competition, what is the weight of the women's shot?
A
24 kilograms (52.92 pounds)
C
14.52 kilograms (32 pounds)
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4
Where did Jeffrey Eugenides, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Middlesex" (2002) dealing with gender identity and gene inheritance in a Greek family, grow up, an area he saw as a haunting and continuing influence?
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5
In 1967 five countries formed the Association for Regional Cooperation among the Countries of Southeast Asia, known as ASEAN. The countries were Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and which other country?
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6
What do the Imaginarium Studios specialise in?
A
Digital performance and motion capture for visual moving media
C
Augmented reality games
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7
After public outrage over a painting by Goya of a nude woman ("the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art"), he refused to paint clothes on her, and created a new painting of the same woman in the same pose, clothed. The paintings are known as "The Nude ... " what and "The Clothed ..." what?
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