General Quiz

Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-15 17:09:50

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50% correct! Good work!

#5805. Where is River Shannon? (The river is named after Sionna, a Celtic goddess.)

#5806. Name the nation with population (2015 estimate) - 255,461,700 and Land Area - 1,904,569 square kilometers;
735,358 sq mi.

bobbym · 2016-02-15 19:05:23

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-16 17:47:14

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The Answer #5805 is correct! Excellent!

#5807. Name the monument - A former Christian patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum (Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as an Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.

#5808. Name the elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus.

bobbym · 2016-02-16 18:34:35

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-17 16:41:34

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The Answer #5808 is correct! Excellent!

#5809. Name the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of Spanish art. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture in 1819, it also contains important collections of other types of works.

#5810. With which nation is 'Magyar Posta' associated?

bobbym · 2016-02-17 18:47:12

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-18 17:47:21

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The Answer #5810 (Hungary) is correct! Excellent!

#5811. Name the pedestrianised shopping street in the City of Westminster, central London, located in the Soho district, near Oxford Street and Regent Street. It is home to numerous fashion and lifestyle retailers, including a large number of independent fashion boutiques.

#5812. Name the polar explorer (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in County Kildare, Ireland, he and his Anglo-Irish family moved to Sydenham in suburban south London when he was ten. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition 1901–04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds, after he and his companions Scott and Wilson set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S.

bobbym · 2016-02-19 15:18:19

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-19 18:41:30

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The Answer #5812 is correct! Excellent!

#5813. Name the town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the strait of __________, the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's county town Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings.

#5814. Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. It is designated Grade I on the Historic England Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. It is divided into two parts, named the East and West cemetery. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves at Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve. Name the philosopher, historian, sociologist and economist where he was buried in East Cemetery (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883).

bobbym · 2016-02-20 01:26:33

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-20 17:48:17

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The Answer #5813 (Dover) is correct! Neat work!

#5815. Name the Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa and the largest ethnic group in South Africa, with an estimated 10–11 million people.

#5816. Liberia's capital is named after whom? (Hint - named in honor of a U.S. President prominent supporter of the colonization of Liberia and the American Colonization Society.)

bobbym · 2016-02-20 19:08:14

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-21 17:50:22

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#5817. At which city does White and Blue Niles meet?

#5818. Algeria gained independence by waging a war with whom?

bobbym · 2016-02-22 02:00:16

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-22 17:40:39

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The Answer #5818 (France) is correct! Excellent!

#5819. In which country did the Hutu Tutsi genocide take place?

#5820. Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid. Name the island.

bobbym · 2016-02-22 18:58:43

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-22 19:24:24

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#5821. Name the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century (8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695). He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional languages. According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Victor Hugo.

#5822. Name the ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism, and as a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. Although a legendary figure, he is usually dated to around the 6th century BCE and reckoned a contemporary of Confucius, but some historians contend that he actually lived during the Warring States period of the 5th or 4th century BCE.

bobbym · 2016-02-23 02:56:52

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-23 18:18:41

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The Answer #5822 is correct! Excellent!

#5823. By what familiar name is Ursus maritimus known?

#5824. The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón, other Spanish name: Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, 906 km (563 mi) west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part. The Galápagos Islands and their surrounding waters form the Galápagos Province of Ecuador, the Galápagos National Park, and the Galápagos Marine Reserve. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of slightly over 25,000. The islands are famed for their vast number of endemic species and were studied by whom during the voyage of the Beagle?

bobbym · 2016-02-23 20:39:08

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-23 22:11:44

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#5825. Name animals that lay eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, reptiles, all birds, and the monotremes.

#5826. Feathers are among the most complex integumentary appendages found in vertebrates and are formed in tiny follicles in the epidermis, or outer skin layer. What do they produce?

bobbym · 2016-02-24 00:52:29

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-24 17:21:34

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#5827. Gulf Air is the principal flag carrier of which nation?

#5828. Burj Khalifa, known as Burj Dubai before its inauguration, is a megatall skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is the tallest artificial structure in the world, standing at how many meters/feet?

bobbym · 2016-02-24 18:04:32

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Jai Ganesh · 2016-02-25 00:20:36

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#5829. Name river in Southwest Asia of some 200 km (120 mi) in length, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq. The southern end of the river constitutes the border between Iraq and Iran down to the mouth of the river as it discharges into the Persian Gulf. It varies in width from about 232 metres (761 ft) at Basra to 800 metres (2,600 ft) at its mouth. It is thought that the waterway formed relatively recently in geologic time, with the Tigris and Euphrates originally emptying into the Persian Gulf via a channel further to the west.

#5830. Name the nation - The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, historically known as Mesopotamia, is most often referred to as humanity's cradle of civilisation.

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