Daily Quiz #200
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 5 August 2009
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1
Q1.
All Scrabble tournament (and most club) games are played with a game clock and a set time control. Typically how long does each player have in which to make all plays?
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2
Q2.
"Doo lang doo land doo lang" is the start of which hit from the 1960s?
D
Stop In The Name Of Love
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3
Q3.
Where in Britain is Bishop Rock lighthouse?
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4
Q4.
Where would you find a eustachian tube?
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5
Q5.
Who wrote the stories "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" which inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" and "The Sandman" which inspired the ballet "Coppélia" by Delibes?
A
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman
B
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
C
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
D
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
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6
Q6.
Which of these is a compound word?
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7
Q7.
Which of the following did Alan Shepard do on the moon in 1971?
B
Put a shrimp on the barby
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