Daily Quiz #5593
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 11 May 2024
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Q1.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018, Donal Ryan's novel, "from a low and quiet sea", explores what?
A
Three stories: an emigrating Syrian; a young man with a broken heart and family; an Irish grafter
B
Coming-of-age under the Taliban
C
Life for a single mother in prison
D
Identity, its broken alternatives, and myth
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Q2.
What was the aim of the programme in sports known as EYES?
A
To promote education through sport in formal and non-formal education
B
To survey all sports internationally
C
To identify and eliminate steroid use in sports
D
To encourage young sportspeople to share and shape their ideas on European sport
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Q3.
What does the "D" stand for in the acronym "PDA", that refers to a small computer that has the ability to connect to the internet?
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Q4.
Which of these is a variety of daisy?
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Q5.
Franklin Roosevelt was fairly fluent in which languages other than English?
C
Mandarin Chinese & Spanish
D
French & Mandarin Chinese
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Q6.
What is the largest and least populated state of the USA?
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Q7.
From 1801 to 1812 Lord Elgin, under a controversial permit from the Ottoman Empire, removed many marble sculptures from a famous building in which country, and brought them to the UK?
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