Daily Quiz #4189
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 7 July 2020
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Q1.
India's first victory in a Test match with England coincided with what else?
A
The new Constitution of the independent India came into force
B
The ascent of Mt Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
C
The death of King George VI
D
Jawaharlal Nehru was elected Prime Minister under India's new constitution
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Q2.
What is the overall term for the gases which surround a planet?
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Q3.
In Rudyard Kipling's story of The Elephant's Child in his "Just So Stories" which was the "great grey-green, greasy" river?
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Q4.
In the use "to have done" something, what is the grammatical term for the "have"?
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Q5.
Which of these musicals was the earliest to be staged?
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Q6.
Canadian Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto and joined her elder brother in New York City, working as a bookkeeper for the E.R. Squibb Pharmaceuticals Company. By what name is she better known?
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Q7.
The first European landfall was made on the continent of Australia by Willem Janszoon in what year?
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