Daily Quiz #5141
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 14 February 2023
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1
The 1908 Olympic Games were scheduled to be held in Rome but were moved to London when what happened?
A
Mount Vesuvius erupted in 1906
B
Persistent earthquakes destroyed all stadia in 1907
C
A public referendum in 1905 voted no to the Games
D
Plagues of locusts 1904 -7 devastated Italy's economy
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2
What is the name of the chemical that naturally occurs in sheep's wool?
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3
In the initials or acronym SMS what does the first "S" stand for?
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4
What 1967 film had the tagline "This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future."?
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5
When and where was the subsequently-named "Liberty Bell" hung in America?
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6
What is the name of the desert basin in the Libyan Desert which, at 133 m below sea level, contains the second lowest point in Africa?
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7
Who (although he claims that the author was an entity named Aiwass, his personal Holy Guardian Angel or "Higher Self") is credited with writing "Liber AL vel Legis", the central sacred text of Thelema, commonly referred to as The Book of the Law, in 1904?
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