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Trivia Quiz - 48

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Just for fun - perhaps even educational. :roll:

1. What percentage of the water on the earth's surface is salt water: 77%, 87% or 97%?
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97%
2. The Atlas Mountains is a range located in which continent?
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Africa
3. Name the board game where each player has 15 pieces that move between 24 triangles according to the roll of 2 dice?
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Backgammon
4. What is the largest state in the USA by population?
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California
5. Which British TV series is based around the wealthy aristocratic Crawley family?
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Downtown Abbey
6. What is the more common name for the medical term hypotension?
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low blood pressure
7. Offa's Dyke roughly follows the border between which two countries?
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England and Wales
8. Joules is a measure of what?
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Energy
9. What is the American name given to the English game of draughts?
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Checkers
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10.Who was the Stevenston author of the book, "Lithuanians In Stevenston"?
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Re: Trivia Quiz - 48

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7 today missed out on 6 (misread the question) 7 and 10.
Those wimin were in the nip.
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7 for me this time -
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7 for me as well
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7 for me this time too

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6 for me this time. Missed out on 4, 5, 7 and 100.

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8, but one was a lucky guess
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