Daily Quiz #49
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 7 March 2009
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Q1.
The Three Gorges Dam is in which country?
A
United States Of America
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2
Q2.
What is the next in the series: Calgary, Canada; Albertville, France; Lillehammer, Norway; Nagano, Japan?
Note: This question was updated in April 2022
C
Salt Lake City, United States
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3
Q3.
What is the next number in the series 1, 8, 27, 64, 125?
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Q4.
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
CBS brought an injunction for copyright infringement
C
It was too disturbing to the public
D
It collapsed under its own weight
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Q5.
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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Q6.
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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Q7.
Who was the Anglo-Irish 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"?
Note: This question was updated in July 2015
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