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Daily Quiz #5717

General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 12 September 2024

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Q1. Which of these is used to measure electric current?

A
Galvanometer
B
Anemometer
C
Metronome
D
Cyclotron
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Q2. Which of these is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

A
Professor Challenger
B
Professor Plum
C
Professor Moriarty
D
Professor Higgins
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Q3. Tophat and steelbone are types of what?

A
Hairdresser's tool
B
Purlin
C
Mushroom
D
Photoshop effect
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Q4. John Adams, second President of the newly independent United States of America, was also which of these?

A
Author of "Watership Down" and "The Plague Dogs"
B
President of Sinn Féin
C
Pitcher in American National League baseball
D
First American Ambassador to Great Britain
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Q5. During the 1924 Olympic Games relations between the teams representing Italy and France in fencing boiled over into a duel between two of their ancillary personnel, over what?

A
Alleged cheating
B
A derogatory remark about the other team's colours
C
A scoring controversy
D
An alleged insulting gesture
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Q6. In 1954 the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) appointed the first of its Goodwill Ambassadors, who was…?

A
Sir Roger Moore
B
Audrey Hepburn
C
Danny Kaye
D
Robin Williams
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Q7. The major geologic exposures in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, range in age from the 2 billion year old Vishnu Schist layers at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 230 million year old layer on the Rim which is called what?

A
Coconino Sandstone
B
Toroweap Formation
C
Kaibab Limestone
D
Hermit Formation
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