General Knowledge Quiz for 25 March 2009
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1
Which city will hold the 2012 Summer Olympics, making it the first city to host the Games three times?
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2
From which game do we get the expression "On a roll"?
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3
Who wrote the plays "Waiting For Godot", "Endgame", "Play", "Happy Days" and "Krapp's Last Tape"?
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4
Who dubbed the singing voice for Audrey Hepburn in the film version of "My Fair Lady"?
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5
Which theatre in Dublin, built in 1904 where George Bernard Shaw, W B Yeats, Padraic Colum, and Sean O'Casey premiered many of their plays, was severely damaged by fire in 1951?
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6
Which wars, from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860, were due to Britain smuggling goods from India into China in defiance of China's laws?
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The Chino-Anglo Dispute
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7
How many signs of the Zodiac are neither inanimate nor human?
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