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Daily Quiz #6025

General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 17 July 2025

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Q1. Which of these is NOT a prime number?

A
47
B
43
C
41
D
45
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Q2. In 1829 a 20 year old already accomplished composer made his first visit to Scotland and was so struck by the mists and the power of the seas that he wrote what piece?

A
Dialogue of the Wind and Sea by Benjamin Britten
B
Fingal's Cave by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
C
Karelia Suite by Jean Sibelius
D
La Mer by Claude Debussy
Select from the options above.

Q3. What was created by the Shinto deities, Izanami-no-Mikoto and her brother-husband Izanagi-no-Mikoto?

A
All fresh water
B
The Sun and Moon
C
The first land
D
The stars
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Q4. Olympic competition for fencing was opened to women in which Olympics?

A
1980 Summer Olympics
B
1924 Summer Olympics
C
1984 Summer Paralympics
D
1996 Summer Olympics
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Q5. Which canal operated along the banks of the Potomac in Maryland from 1850 to 1924 and connected Cumberland, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., allowing freight to be transported around the Great Falls of the Potomac River?

A
Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal
B
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
C
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
D
Pennsylvania Canal
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Q6. Which of these is the Russian-Israeli billionaire who, from 2003 to 2022, was the owner of Chelsea Football Club in the UK?

A
Leonid Brezhnev
B
Vladimir Putin
C
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
D
Roman Abramovich
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Q7. The Greek mathematician, mystic and scientist Pythagoras is best known for the Pythagorean theorem, which concerns what?

A
Illnesses of elephants
B
Stars
C
Water levels
D
Triangles
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