Daily Quiz #5598
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 16 May 2024
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Q1.
Which of these is not one of the meanings of "kindle"?
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Q2.
Which of these developed and produced the Malaysian feature film "Thanggam" (2019) featuring a millennial named Kumar and his elderly grandmother who come to live together but speak separate languages?
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Q3.
The Pano and the Shipibo peoples are indigenous in the area named after what river?
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Q4.
Championship dragon boat racing calls for a specialised long boat, a team of paddlers (typically 20), a sweeper to steer and which other of these?
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Q5.
What was invented in the 1940s by Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, who was building magnetrons for radar sets?
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Q6.
In 1902 a youth detention centre, the first of its kind, was established near which village in Kent, England?
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Q7.
Who, in 1982, was arrested for drunkenly urinating on a cenotaph erected in honour of those who died at the Alamo in Texas, across the street from the actual building?
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