Daily Quiz #4202
General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 20 July 2020
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1
Where is the only population of wild apes in Europe?
Note: This question was updated in October 2022
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2
Who wrote the 16th century play "Tamburlaine the Great", one of the first English plays in blank verse?
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3
Quasimodo is what book character?
A
The man in the iron mask
C
The hunchback of Notre Dame
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4
The 300 strong Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite force in the 4th century BCE Theban army, was composed of what or whom?
A
Unmarried women over 5'6" (167 cm) in height
B
The youngest sons of every Theban aristocratic family
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5
Transits of Venus occur in a pattern, with pairs of transits 8 years apart separated by much longer gaps, that repeats every how many years?
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6
Where and when were the first Youth Olympic Games held?
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7
Which of these words can be applied to soups enriched with salt pork fatback and thickened with flour or with crushed ship biscuit or saltine crackers, and milk?
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