Daily Quiz #4565
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 18 July 2021
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Q1.
Taking 0 BC as a point in time (not a year in its own right), what is the last day of the first decade of the third millennium?
Note: This question was updated in February 2022
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Q2.
At the start of a game of chess, there are 16 of which pieces on the board?
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Q3.
Like many of his contemporaries he thought of the English as the master race, he was an imperialist and successful entrepreneur and businessman who co-founded the De Beers Consolidated Mines diamond firm, and he was an enterprising politician. Who was he?
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Q4.
In April 1947, following a rapidly spreading epidemic of what disease, New York, USA, carried out a programme of vaccination which delivered over 6.35 million doses over the space of just 4 weeks?
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Q5.
What river runs through Memphis, Tennessee, USA?
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Q6.
The "cur-" of the word "curfew" is the English assimilation of a French word meaning what?
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Q7.
Which school is the setting for the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle"?
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North Manual High School
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Brookfield Public School
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