Daily Quiz #5053
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 18 November 2022
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1
Marie Adolphe Carnot (1839–1920), a French mining engineer and chemist, gave his name to a mineral which is an important source of what?
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2
What is the focus of "The Compleat Angler" by Izaak Walton, first published in 1653 (with additions for another quarter of a century)?
A
Discussion of the best rods and flies to use to catch different kinds of fish
B
Celebration in prose and verse of the art and spirit of fishing
C
The social aspect of fishing
D
An angler's place at the royal court
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3
The Tour Down Under and World Road Championship are contests in what?
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4
In January 2013, South African police were deployed to join a massive hunt round the Limpopo River for what?
A
Four escaped prisoners convicted of murder and aggravated robbery
C
10-15,000 Nile crocodiles which had been accidentally released from a farm
D
Survivors after a major flood
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5
Where would a Deemster hold office?
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6
The islands of Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes are in which sea?
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7
Interference patterns produced when an opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern, are called what?
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