General Knowledge Quiz for 7 March 2009
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1
The Three Gorges Dam is in which country?
A
United States Of America
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2
What is the next in the series: Calgary, Canada; Albertville, France; Lillehammer, Norway; Nagano, Japan?
C
Salt Lake City, United States
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3
What is the next number in the series 1, 8, 27, 64, 125?
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4
Why was Eric Fishl's sculpture "Tumbling Woman", a memorial to those who jumped from the World Trade Centre on 11 Sept 2001, removed from the Rockefeller Centre in New York City?
A
It was too disturbing to the public
C
CBS brought an injunction for copyright infringement
D
It collapsed under its own weight
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5
Which building was attacked at the start of the French Revolution on 14 July 1789 because it was symbolic of injustice?
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6
In England, in the first half of the twentieth century, a "vesta" was a common term for a type of what?
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7
Who was the English scientist who, in the 17th century, discovered that "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure"?
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