Daily Quiz #5113
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 17 January 2023
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1
Trig stations are installed on the highest point of a hill or mountain for what?
B
To form a comfortable seat
C
To provide a perch for passing birds
D
Geodetic and other surveying
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2
An island bearing the name Victoria Island is found in the Canadian Arctic archipelago, in Ottawa, near the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, in Lagos in Nigeria, in the Chonos Archipelago in Chile, and where else?
A
The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California
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3
What term is applied to a left-handed boxer?
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4
Aisin-Gioro Puyi, courtesy name Yaozhi, also known as Henry Puyi, was better known as who?
A
China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
C
The last emperor of China
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5
What does a vexillographer design?
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6
What do Eurythmics, Fleetwood Mac, Bee Gees, David Bowie, Elton John, Van Morrison, Rod Stewart, Freddie Mercury, Status Quo and Queen have in common?
A
Going to the London School of Economics
B
Providing the theme song for a "James Bond" film
C
Having records released by Motown records
D
Winning the "Outstanding contribution" BRIT award
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7
The developing Great East-West Schism between the eastern and western arms of the Christian church was marked in 1054 by which watershed event between the leaders of the two arms?
A
They refused to recognise one another when they met
B
They officially adopted differing holy books
C
They publicly spat at one another
D
They ex-communicated one another
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