Daily Quiz #4548
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 1 July 2021
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1
In 2016, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced what new award, to be presented at every Olympic Games, the inaugural presentation being made at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
A
International Fair Play Committee Award
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2
What do "cruciverbalists" do?
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3
During his career from 1959 to 1993, who battled more than 2,000 fires in oil and natural gas wells, notably in 1962 when he tackled a fire at a gas field in the Sahara nicknamed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter, a 450-foot (137 m) flame?
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4
What is the middle name of Sir Austin Powers, KBE, a fictional character who first appeared in "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (1997) and is portrayed by Mike Myers?
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6
The French and what other nation sent colonists to New Zealand in the 1830s?
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7
How is sidereal time measured?
A
By the changing positions of the planets
B
By the apparent motion of the distant, so-called fixed, stars about the Earth
C
By the position of the moon relative to the Earth
D
By motion of ocean tides
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