Daily Quiz #4044
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 13 February 2020
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1
A
A dart that bounces off the wire (darts)
C
A bowling style (cricket)
D
A bathing cap (synchronised swimming)
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2
Q2.
Who directed the allied forces at the second Battle of El Alamein?
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3
Q3.
What was the fate of Mary Queen of Scots in Donizetti's opera "Maria Stuarda"?
A
She goes mad and commits suicide
B
She was stabbed to death by her lover
D
She died of consumption
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4
Q4.
The Manhattan Project, led by the USA and including scientists from the UK and Canada, was the codename for a project that ran from 1942 to 1946 to develop what?
D
Four-wheel drive vehicles
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5
Q5.
Which of these US cities is the southernmost?
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6
Q6.
What do the words "xoxo", "pogonophobia" and "yarn bombing" have in common?
A
They don't show in any official dictionary
B
They are words coined by talk show host Stephen Colbert
C
They are words officially banned in the Index librorum prohibitorum
D
They are some of the words officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary since 2015
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7
Q7.
What name is given to a cultural and societal phenomenon characterised by an excessive preoccupation with the individual's own appearance, accompanied by difficulties coping with the aging process and with the requirements of maturation?
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