Daily Quiz #250
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 24 September 2009
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Q1.
In cockney rhyming slang, what is "Trouble and Strife"?
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Q2.
Which English novelist wrote "Decline and Fall", "Brideshead Revisited" and "Officers and Gentlemen"?
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Q3.
Which of these is a slender-billed wading bird related to the stork?
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Q4.
In 1985 the Greenpeace protest ship "Rainbow Warrior" was bombed and sunk by French agents in which harbour?
Note: This question was updated in August 2014
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Q5.
If you sailed from the Aegean through the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, and followed the Volga-Don canal, where would you end up?
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Q6.
Which computer game takes place in Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas, which suffer from rampant crime, feuding between crime syndicates, random acts of violence from street gangs, organized thievery and murder, and corrupt city officials and police?
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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
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Q7.
The rest is silence are the dying words of which Shakespearean character?
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