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Daily Quiz #3014

General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 19 April 2017

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Q1. At the end of 2016 the world's two biggest car makers by sales were Toyota and which other?

A
General Motors
B
Nissan
C
Ford
D
Volkswagen
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Q2. What British ship was sunk by Gunther Prien, captain of submarine U47, on the night of 13 and 14 October 1939?

A
Royal Oak
B
Exeter
C
Hood
D
Britannia
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Q3. Hoylake Beach in the UK and St Peter Ording in Germany have been the venues for international championships since 2007 for which sport?

A
Sand yachting
B
Beach volleyball
C
Surf lifesaving
D
Frisbee
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Q4. Joanna Lumley and David McCallum played which pair in a TV series?

A
Sooty and Sweep
B
Sapphire and Steel
C
MacMillan and Wife
D
Cagney and Lacey
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Q5. What name is given to a young whale?

A
Pup
B
Calf
C
Kid
D
Cub
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Q6. Which of these would definitely not have been able to observe the rings of the planet Saturn through a telescope?

A
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
B
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
C
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
D
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695)
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Q7. On what kind of land does Windhoek sit, the capital of its country and located in almost its exact geographical centre?

A
Rainforest
B
Between two deserts
C
Gravel plains and dunes
D
Highland plateau
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