Daily Quiz #5596
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 14 May 2024
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Q1.
1944 marked what in Iceland?
A
End of the Danish-Icelandic Act of Union and election of the first President of the new republic
B
Allied occupation forces took over the country
C
The banking sector was nationalised
D
The island of Surtsey erupted above sea level
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2
Q2.
What is the Italian for the English word "air"?
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3
Q3.
In what month or months are the Winter Olympic Games held?
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Q4.
According to a 2009 adventure family film starring Ashley Tisdale, Carter Jenkins, Robert Hoffman, Henri Young, Regan Young and Austin Butler, "The aliens are" where?
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Q5.
Among its functions to promote and safeguard astronomy (e.g. research, communication, education and development) through international cooperation, the International Astronomical Union does what in relation to features in the solar system?
B
Creates video and VCR games using them
C
Builds topographical models of them to use in designing playgrounds
D
Nothing, it is not involved in anything to do with them
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Q6.
Rosalind Franklin, a biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of DNA, RNA, and viruses, was what nationality?
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B
Ground rock left after the passage of glaciers
C
Loose unconsolidated broken rock and dust that sits on a layer of bedrock
D
Rock in which fine-grained clay forms flakes in planes perpendicular to the metamorphic compression
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