Daily Quiz #57
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 15 March 2009
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Q1.
Time On Our Hands, which held the record for the highest UK audience for a sitcom episode from 1996 for over ten years, is from which TV series?
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Q2.
Which light-heavyweight boxer won a gold medal when he competed at an Olympic Games for the first time in 1960 at Rome?
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Q3.
Which of these colours does not appear on a purple finch?
Note: This question was updated in July 2015
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Q4.
Normally, a string quintet contains how many violins?
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Q5.
Which Irish step dancer, flautist and choreographer, born 16 July 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, became internationally known through the musical "Riverdance"?
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Q6.
What phrase used by the US during the Cold War to justify American intervention around the world, suggested that if any country came under the influence of communism, the surrounding countries would follow?
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Q7.
The Australian city of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, is on which river?
Note: This question was updated in October 2014
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