Daily Quiz #231
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 5 September 2009
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Q1.
The military action popularly known as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" took place in which war?
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Q2.
What is the electrical capacitance which 1 coulomb of electricity will charge to a capacity of 1 volt?
Note: This question was updated in December 2013
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Q3.
Where are sculptures of Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis carved into the side of a mountain?
Note: This question was updated in April 2017
A
Stone Mountain, Georgia
B
Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
C
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
D
Mount Jefferson State Park, North Carolina
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Q4.
Which of these is the lowest suit when bidding in the card game Five Hundred?
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Q5.
Although now a term for an ordinary infantryman, in 1640 a "fusilier" was so called because his weapon was a fusil. What was a fusil?
A
A light flintlock musket
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Q6.
Who became famous through three films made in 1955 and 1956, and died at the wheel of a Porsche in 1956?
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Q7.
The song "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'" from the film "High Noon" was a big hit for Frankie Laine in the early 1950s. Who sang it on the film soundtrack?
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