Daily Quiz #3123
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 6 August 2017
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Q1.
What tournament was threatened in 1976 because of the shortage of horse chestnut seeds in Northamptonshire, England?
A
Best Australian Drover's Hat
B
The Great British Bake Off
D
World Conker Championship
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2
Q2.
Woody Guthrie's life story is told in which of these books?
A
This Land: It Is My Land
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3
Q3.
The habitat of red pandas includes central China and where else?
A
The mountains of Nepal and northern Myanmar (Burma)
C
Japan and the Philippines
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4
Q4.
What artificial international language invented by Dr Zamenhof was published in 1887?
A
Universal sign language
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5
Q5.
Which of these is not a noble gas?
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Q6.
What was the 1911 Xinhai Revolution directly intended to achieve?
A
Overthrow of China's last imperial dynasty
B
Removal of Sun Yat-sen from the Kuomintang
C
Establishment of Chiang Kai-Shek and the Chinese Communist Party in power in China
D
The independence of Mongolia
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Q7.
A number of medical treatments and terminologies have been named after which German surgeon, son of a philosopher and philologist, father and grandfather of also well-known pharmacologists, and from 1895 surgeon-in-chief at the University of Leipzig?
A
Friedrich Lange (1849 - 1927)
B
Albert Fraenkel (1848-1916)
C
Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844-1924)
D
Paul Dahlke (1865- 1928)
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