Daily Quiz #4968
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 25 August 2022
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Q1.
The same person links the 1960 film "Pollyanna" and which other 1959 film?
C
The Diary of Anne Frank
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Q2.
A constellation whose three main bright stars are called, sometimes, the Three Maries, the Three Kings, or Hap (mule deer), Haamoja (pronghorn), and Mojet (bighorn sheep), was known in Scandinavia as Freyja's distaff and now more generally as what?
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Q3.
What was broadcast in 2012 on Fox News Channel's Studio B which caused it to issue an on-air apology almost immediately afterwards?
A
A "wardrobe malfunction"
B
Live broadcast of the suicide of the object of a police pursuit in Arizona
C
Swearing in the studio caught on a microphone inadvertently left live
D
A 3-second section of a snuff movie being used in a court case
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Q4.
Where is the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Cliffs of Bandiagara including burial caves of the ancient Tellem?
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Q5.
In the terms BCE and CE used in dating systems, what does the "C" stand for?
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Q6.
In 1963, US President Kennedy sanctioned a coup d'état in which country to overthrow Ngo Dinh Diem, the Roman Catholic President, by his own army generals?
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Q7.
Steven Adams a basketballer from New Zealand joined the US team Thunder in 2013 just before they became the first-ever champions of the Orlando Summer League. One of his siblings is known on the world stage as who?
C
Blair Adams, footballer
D
Danielle Adams, basketballer
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