Daily Quiz #4498
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 12 May 2021
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Q1.
At which Olympic Games were some events held close to a major monument to a country-defining civil war and a site remembered for a racial oppression movement?
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Q2.
Where is it thought that the ancient dead who were preserved in what are known as the Tarim Mummies lived?
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Central and north-eastern Asia
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Q3.
When did the UK first open negotiations to join what became the European Union?
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Q4.
Brees and Brady are well-known names in what sport?
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Q5.
A full moon or a new moon at or close to its perigee (the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit) is often called what?
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Q6.
The vernacular is what?
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The local language or the mother tongue
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Q7.
What was the central theme of a ten-play cycle (1982 to 2005) by American playwright and poet, August Wilson?
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Evolving African American experience and identity, and migration and racial discrimination
C
American election campaigns
D
Science experimentation on minority populations in America
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