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Daily Quiz #4984

General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 10 September 2022

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Q1. What is a synonym for "overweight"?

A
Ovate
B
Oblate
C
Obese
D
Oblique
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Q2. After a scoring controversy at an Olympic Games, the Hungarian and Italian fencing teams satisfied honour with a real live duel, with sabres. In what year was this?

A
1924
B
1928
C
1932
D
1920
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Q3. Following the abdication in February 1873 of the Spanish monarch, King Amadeo, the only Spanish king from the Italian House of Savoy, what happened immediately afterwards in Spain?

A
5 years of civil war
B
The Bourbon monarchy was restored
C
Establishment of the (First) Spanish Republic
D
Re-invasion by France
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Q4. Who played Mr Big in the TV series "Sex and the City" which first ran from 1998 to 2004, and the films "Sex and the City" (2008) and "Sex and the City 2" (2010)?

A
Clive Owen
B
Jason Lewis
C
David Eigenberg
D
Chris Noth
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Q5. What continent lies under the islands of New Zealand?

A
Pacifica
B
Australia
C
Antarctica
D
Zealandia
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Q6. Credits for originally writing which song are ascribed to Fred Glickman and Ellis "Buz" Butler, who in 1947 was the first to record it, and also ascribed to Fred Glickman, Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, and Ramblin' Tommy Scott?

A
The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger
B
Mule Train
C
Merry Christmas
D
Cruising Down the River
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Q7. The kri-kri is a species of what?

A
Turtle
B
Goat
C
Deer
D
Oat grass
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