Tes Quiz: 2 August 2019

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2nd August 2019, 12:03am
Tes Quiz 2nd August 2019

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Tes Quiz: 2 August 2019

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  1. Carol Danvers is the alter-ego of which comic book superhero?
  2. Who is the only cricketer to have scored a triple hundred in a Test match, a double hundred in an ODI and a century in a Test T20?
  3. Located in Europe, what is the smallest country in the world by both area and population?
  4. Released in June 2019, whose 19th studio album is entitled Western Stars?
  5. Which cocktail is named after an Italian Renaissance painter?
  6. Nephrology is a specialty of medicine and pediatrics that concerns itself with which part of the human body?
  7. Which German city was the location for the conference attended by Churchill, Truman and Stalin held between 17 July and 2 August 1945?
  8. Who wrote the novel Catch-22?
  9. What unit of area is equal to 4840 square yards?
  10. Who played the title character in the 2013 film Captain Phillips, which was based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking?

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QUIZ ANSWERS

  1. Captain Marvel
  2. Chris Gayle
  3. Vatican City
  4. Bruce Springsteen
  5. Bellini
  6. Kidneys
  7. Potsdam
  8. Joseph Heller
  9. Acre
  10. Tom Hanks

Questions set by John Cunnane

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