Daily Quiz #4235
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 22 August 2020
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Q1.
The Edinburgh Agreement, or Decision, in 1992 was reached to what?
A
Allow Scotland to modify the Good Friday Agreement
B
Allow Scotland to accept the UK's decision to ratify the 1992 Maastricht Treaty
C
Remove the last barrier to the European Union's coming into effect shortly afterwards
D
Set up the devolved Scottish Government
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Q2.
Michelangelo sculpted his statue of David in which century?
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Q3.
Elements in the periodic table show two main numbers. What does the number with decimal places represent?
C
Its electron configuration
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Q4.
What do Seung-Hui Cho, Thomas Watt Hamilton, Robert Steinhäuser, Charles Joseph Whitman, Tim Kretschmer, Marc Lépine, Dylan Bennet Klebold, Eric David Harris, Farda Gadirov, Bai Ningyang and Walter Seifert have in common?
A
They carried out massacres at schools
B
They captained dodgeball teams
C
They were members of US Olympic table tennis teams
D
They were policemen accused of racial bias during arrests
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Q5.
What item of clothing, seen frequently on news media being worn by former President of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat, was popularised in the west, ?
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Q6.
What type of competition is "Western Pleasure", a popular type of competition in the USA?
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Q7.
What is recognised as the world's largest island?
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