Wildcard Quiz #656
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 14 August 2021
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Q1.
What term is used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece of music for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment, commonly in opera, although they also form movements of oratorios and cantatas?
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2
Q2.
Which of these would be involved in prestidigitation?
C
Canning factory manager
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3
Q3.
Bergers White Ball, Giant Prague and Diamant are cultivars of what food plant?
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Q4.
In the acronym NFT used in digital block-chain enabled transactions, what does the "F" stand for?
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5
Q5.
What is the opposite of diminuendo?
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Q6.
For what situation did the term "cabotage" originate?
B
Routes followed by 15th century Italian navigator and explorer John Cabot
C
Coastal shipping trade involving two or more countries
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Q7.
What is trokosi as practised among the Ewe people in Benin, Togo and Ghana?
B
Ritual tattooing of religious initiates
C
Lighting incense sticks to the ancestors
D
Paying for sin by sending a young girl into permanent bondage to priests in a shrine
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