Daily Quiz #5081
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 16 December 2022
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1
What is a veiner or V-tool used for?
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2
Which of these railways is mainly in Russia?
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3
Which 16th century German physician and botanist is also remembered in the name of a small flowering shrub, with flowers usually of vivid purple-red petals and deep red sepals?
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John Tradescant the Elder
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4
Which video game, the music for which was composed specially for the game, features composition by Nobuo Uematsu and includes work by Masashi Hamauzu, Hitoshi Sakimoto and Yoko Shimomura?
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5
Which of these is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide, which produces a reaction that is not explosive, but creates short bursts of high temperatures on a small area for a short period?
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6
Which phrase that first came to public attention as a U.S. television commercial for the Wendy's chain of hamburger restaurants in 1984 became associated with the 1984 U.S. presidential election when Walter Mondale ridiculed Gary Hart's candidacy?
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7
"Massacre in Korea", a 1951 expressionistic painting by Pablo Picasso which is seen as a criticism of American intervention in the Korean war is drawn from the painting "The Third of May 1808", which shows Napoleon's soldiers executing Spanish civilians, by whom?
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