Daily Quiz #4627
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 18 September 2021
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Q1.
Which English MP, Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King Charles II and King James II, kept a detailed private diary during 1660-1669 which contained personal revelations and eyewitness accounts of great events and, after publication in the 19th century, became a primary source for study of the English Restoration period?
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Q2.
What word means a "sudden revelation"?
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3
Q3.
The northern mass of the continent of the Americas is bounded by the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, by the Caribbean Sea, by South America and by which other?
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Q4.
Which play, and then novel, explores, through the 164-year-history of one family, a social system much criticised since the 19th century?
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Q5.
What do the "C"s stand for in the acronym CCUS?
C
Competition (between) China
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Q6.
In October 2018 a tomos was signed, and then formalised three months later in Istanbul, to do what?
A
Recognise the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as independent of the Russian Orthodox Church
B
Classify the Hagia Sophia as a mosque
C
Co-operate with Europe to control the flow of migrants
D
Give the key of Istanbul to Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Q7.
Football Golf has annual World and European Championships, as well as Open Tournaments in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and what other country?
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