Daily Quiz #3723
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 29 March 2019
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Q1.
The formula (X²)² is the same as which of these?
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Q2.
Which of these is not a line from "The Skye Boat Song"?
B
Like a bird on the wing
D
Sit down the sailors cry
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Q3.
Who referred to her quarter final match against Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 2009 Australian Open as "an out of body experience"?
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Q4.
Who was re-elected President of the Republic of Germany in 1932 defeating Adolf Hitler, became a figurehead when Hitler became Chancellor in 1932, and died in 1934, enabling Hitler to disestablish the position of President and proclaim himself Fuhrer?
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Q5.
Which Greek philosopher, from the 6th century BCE, is best known for a mathematical theorem which bears his name and for leading a group who discovered square numbers and proposed that the earth was round, planets have an axis, and they travel around the sun?
Note: This question was updated in June 2020
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Q6.
What is the name given to the hypotheses, now superseded, that the movement of continents and the appearance of new crustal material at mid-ocean ridges is because the Earth's volume is increasing?
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Q7.
Which of these countries is landlocked?
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