Daily Quiz #197
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Q1. Besides Maria Sklodowska-Curie, three people have received two Nobel Prizes. Which of these is not one of them?
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Q2. Why did Captain James Cook give the name "The Sandwich Islands" to the Hawaiian Islands on his discovery of them on 18 January 1778?
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Q3. Which film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland, was about four days in the life of a chronic drunkard?
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Q4. Of all of the capitals of sovereign countries that are closest to each other, which two are the furthest apart?
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Q5. In the nursery rhyme, who put in his thumb and pulled out a plum?
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Q6. The two goal posts, located at the same end of the field, are the furthest apart in which of the following sports?
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Q7. What is the name for an intermittent hot spring, characterised by violent explosive eruptions of steam and boiling water, alternating with quiet periods?
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