Daily Quiz #5000
General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 26 September 2022
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1
"Hobson-Jobson" is the short title of a book written by Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell, first published in 1886, that contains what?
A
Anglo-Indian words and terms
B
Biographies of people called Hobson and Jobson
C
A detailed atlas showing the expeditions of Hobson and Jobson
D
A manual on how to sail a particularly obscure boat
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2
Which of these is the principal seaport on the island of Cyprus?
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3
In what language was "War and Peace" mainly written?
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4
Where is it that Roman Catholics believe souls are held after death for purification to be made fit for heaven?
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5
Askania-Nova is the first nature reserve, established in 1898, of which country?
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6
What caused difficulties for the 1928 Winter Olympics?
C
A national transport strike
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7
Which of these people maintained that he, not Alexander Graham Bell, had invented the telephone and that Bell had stolen the invention from him?
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