Daily Quiz #4629
General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 20 September 2021
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Q1.
Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner starred in what TV series, first broadcast from 1966 to 1969?
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Q2.
"Aegrotocatellus jaggeri" an extinct marine arthropod which disappeared about 250 million years ago, is named after whom?
D
A native American tribe from the Florida coast
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Q3.
What was Colin Powell's role in George W Bush's government from 2001 to 2005?
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives
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Q4.
Which river, the world's deepest on record and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume, rises in the highlands and mountains of the East African Rift?
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Q5.
In the 2020 Summer Olympics several sports made an Olympic debut, including which of these?
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Q6.
Which country forcibly colonised the island now known as Taiwan in 1895?
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Q7.
What is the word for bending at least one knee to the ground, a gesture of deep respect for a superior that was introduced in 328 BC by Alexander the Great into his court, a practice then already followed in Persia?
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