Daily Quiz #4099
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 8 April 2020
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Q1.
Where or how is riprap used?
A
As a pattern infill in graphics
B
As a drone and a rhythm element in street music
C
To assist farmers in tail docking
D
In shorelines to protect against water erosion
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2
Q2.
Which of these was an irregular unit of British Special Forces founded in Cairo in 1942 by Major Vladimir Peniakoff that served in the Western Desert during World War II?
B
Long Range Desert Group
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3
Q3.
Which country produces the most of the world's olive oil?
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4
Q4.
Which country is the only one to have won a gold medal in every Winter Olympics from 1924, the first, until 2018?
A
Russia (including the Soviet Union)
C
Germany (including West and East Germany)
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5
Q5.
In a paper published in "Physical Review Letters" in 1964, British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs proposed a theory in physics. What was it?
A
A mechanism for an all-pervasive energy field which interacts with its environment to give mass
B
Force-carrying particles in the electroweak force
C
A theory of molecular vibrations
D
Mechanism in the formation of topological defects
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6
Q6.
In January 2019 executive producers Alec Sulkin and Rich Appel, along with creator Seth MacFarlane, confirmed "Family Guy" would no longer write jokes against what?
B
Children with Down syndrome
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7
Q7.
Who invented the revolver?
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