Tes Quiz: 24 May 2019

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24th May 2019, 12:03am
Tes Quiz 24 May 2019

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Tes Quiz: 24 May 2019

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  1. Trap and skeet are two disciplines in which Olympic sport?
  2. Who is the only person to have served as both Vice-President and President of the USA without being elected to either office by the United States Electoral College?
  3. What relation is the cartoon character Scrooge McDuck to the triplets Huey, Dewey and Louie?
  4. Lake Titicaca is located across the border between which two South American countries?
  5. Which novelist wrote the books The Shining, Misery and The Green Mile, all of which were adapted into films?
  6. Which colourful band had a 2011 hit with the song Moves Like Jagger?
  7. The name of which European capital was also the name of the horse that the Duke of Wellington rode at the Battle of Waterloo?
  8. Tom yum is a hot and spicy soup from the cuisine of which country?
  9. Which of the eight planets in our solar system has the shortest day?
  10. Who became the new Emperor of Japan on 1 May 2019?

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QUIZ ANSWERS

  1. Shooting
  2. Gerald Ford
  3. Great uncle
  4. Bolivia and Peru
  5. Stephen King
  6. Maroon 5
  7. Copenhagen
  8. Thailand
  9. Jupiter
  10. Emperor Naruhito

Questions set by John Cunnane

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