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Daily Quiz #2357

General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 2 July 2015

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Q1. What is the interest of graphologists?

A
Handwriting
B
Pencils
C
Charts
D
Soft minerals
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Q2. Which of these is a dog breed originating in Yorkshire, England, sometimes used in England as a police dog, that is also called the Waterside Terrier, and was called the "King of Terriers" because it was the largest of the terrier breeds (before the creation of the Black Russian Terrier)?

A
Airedale
B
Clydesdale
C
Wensleydale
D
Homedale
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Q3. In popular tales what bowler famously caught the eye of Elizabeth I of England when the Spanish Armada was sighted off the British coast?

A
Sir Francis Drake
B
Francis Bacon
C
Sir Francis Walsingham
D
Frances Gumm
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Q4. The popular UK TV series "Mapp and Lucia" (2014) and "Sherlock" (2010-now) share the talents of which of these people?

A
Mark Gatiss
B
Miranda Richardson
C
Martin Freeman
D
Frances Barber
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Q5. Which of these famous scientists could escape the schoolyard nicknames of Copperknickers, The Great Newt, or The Eddystone Lighthouse?

A
Thomas Edison
B
Nicolaus Copernicus
C
Isaac Newton
D
Robert Brown
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Q6. The city of Irkutsk, Russia, lies at the southern tip of which body of water?

A
Sea of Okhotsk
B
Lake Baikal
C
Aral Sea
D
Lake Balkhash
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Q7. Argentina encouraged a massive wave of immigration from Europe starting in 1857; between then and 1940 people from which country formed the bulk of the influx?

A
Portugal
B
Spain
C
Italy
D
UK
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