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Daily Quiz #1666

General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 10 August 2013

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Q1. Where was the supposedly golden land of El Dorado?

A
Europe
B
Asia
C
South America
D
Africa
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Q2. When was curling first played as a Winter Olympic sport?

A
1898
B
1998
C
Never
D
1798
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Q3. Francis Crick and James Watson did their research into DNA at what institution?

Note: This question was updated in April 2022
A
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
B
Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
C
Cambridge, England
D
Oxford, England
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Q4. Which English explorer commanded the ships "Discovery" and "Terra Nova" to explore the Antarctic?

A
Ernest Shackleton
B
Edmund Hillary
C
Robert Falcon Scott
D
Dr Livingstone
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Q5. The Reichenbach Falls are in which country?

A
Norway
B
Switzerland
C
Germany
D
Luxembourg
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Q6. What is Spike Milligan's first name?

A
Michael
B
Roger
C
Peter
D
Terence
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Q7. Which of these was a painter?

A
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
B
Prince Rupert Löwenstein
C
Roy Lichtensein
D
Annie Leibovitz
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