Daily Quiz #5221
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Q1. On 30 August 2012 NASA launched Radiation Belt Storm probes to look at the two doughnut-shaped Van Allen radiation belts of high energy particles encircling the Earth. Three days after the launch they discovered what?
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Q2. Which golfer released the song "All My Exes Wear Rolexes" in 2002?
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Q3. Which river runs through the cities of Basel, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Arnhem, Utrecht and Rotterdam?
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Q4. What is a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offence against it to the positions of innocent people?
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Q5. In Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" the Barrister dreams he sees a Snark defending a case where the defendant was what or who?
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Q6. Who was the first woman to walk in space as well as, 36 years later, to reach the deepest known spot in the ocean?
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Q7. Although Chinese emperors had kept a fleet, when needed for waging coastal wars and invading neighbouring lands, when did they first establish a standing navy?
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