Daily Quiz #4011
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 11 January 2020
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1
Edward Wilson as chief scientist, and others - zoologists, biologists, geologists, a physicist and a meteorologist - were the scientific team for which expedition?
A
Terra Australis Expedition, led by Captain James Cook
B
Terra Nova Expedition, led by Sir Robert Falcon Scott
C
Nimrod Expedition, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton
D
Australasian Antarctic Expedition, led by Douglas Mawson
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2
The 38th episode of what series is infamous for using visual effects that, when transmitted in December 1997, caused seizures in 685 viewers so severe that they were taken to hospital?
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3
Which of these words can be applied correctly to 97% of all animal species?
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4
What country lies between Venezuela and Peru?
Note: This question was updated in October 2022
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5
During a speech in January 1992, then-president George H. W. Bush mentioned that he wanted to "make American families a lot more like ... which family? ... and a lot less like the Simpsons".
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6
What is the nickname of the Australian national netball team?
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7
Which mystic symbol among Buddhists was adopted in its clockwise form by the Nazi party in Germany?
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