Wildcard Quiz #495
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 14 July 2018
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Q1.
Which musical term denotes a repetitive oscillation about a single pitch that occurs in rapid cycles?
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2
Q2.
What spirit, in Ireland and Scotland, makes noises near a house when someone is about to die?
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3
Q3.
What does the A stand for in the United Nations agency known as the FAO?
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4
Q4.
Which of these is a personification of Death?
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Q5.
The dried and grated root of which plant is baked to make cassava bread, and is used to make a beverage called piwarry from its fermented juices?
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Q6.
The þorn/thorn character, originally from the runic alphabet and still part of the Icelandic alphabet, used to be part of what other alphabet?
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Q7.
The "Zapruder film" is famous for being a colour film of which event?
A
Assassination of John F Kennedy
B
Raising of the US flag at Iwo Jima
C
Crash of the Mercedes car carrying Diana Spencer
D
Osama Bin Laden celebrating on 12 September 2001
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