Tes Quiz: 8 June 2018

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1st June 2018, 12:00am
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Tes Quiz: 8 June 2018

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1. Which former AC Milan footballer became president of Liberia on 22 January 2018?

2. What did Tim Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955) invent in 1989?

3. Which country did Flora Duffy represent in winning the first gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games?

4. “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” is the last line of which Humphrey Bogart film?

5. Whitehorse is the capital and largest city of which of Canada’s three territories?

6. Which is the largest coffee producing country in the world? (as Frank Sinatra sang, “There’s an awful lot of coffee in…”)

7. “Twas brillig, and the silthy toves/Did gyre and gimble in the wabe” are the opening lines from which poem by Lewis Carroll?

8. Sn is the symbol for which element?

9. What name is given to the garland of flowers presented on arriving or leaving Hawaii?

10. Which of the seven dwarfs has a name that is not an adjective?

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Quiz answers

1. George Weah

2. World Wide Web

3. Bermuda

4. Casablanca

5. Yukon

6. Brazil

7. Jabberwocky

8. Tin

9. Lei

10. Doc

Questions set by John Cunnane

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