Daily Quiz #4557
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 10 July 2021
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1
In what year did a woman first qualify and race in the Indianapolis 500?
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2
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics in part honoured the discovery that a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity is what?
A
Cosmic microwave background radiation
B
A supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
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3
In which century was the prison fortress known as the Bastille stormed and taken by revolutionary Parisian crowds?
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4
Who is the main character in a thinly veiled allegory, written while its author was in prison, released in 1678, and still in print?
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5
Which country, whose capital is Doha, has a population of 1.6 million and an average daily temperature in June and July of 40 degrees Celsius, was ruled until 2013 by Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani?
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6
Why did Denmark, in November 2020, decide to slaughter up to 17 million mink (all of its stock) which were the basis of an almost US$1 billion industry?
A
A switch to chinchilla instead
B
A public referendum voted to ban mink farming
C
A concerning form of SARS-CoV-2 was found in the mink and was transferring to humans
D
A social media campaign against mink
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7
Who created the work "A Thousand Years", consisting of a cow's head, maggots and an insect electrocutor?
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