Daily Quiz #314
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 27 November 2009
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Q1.
What is a key signature?
A
A Personal Identification Number used to enter a building
B
The sample signature that a bank uses to verify a customer's cheques
C
Combinations of sharps or flats at the beginning of each staff indicating the key of a composition
D
A specific pure DNA sample kept on permanent record by the FBI
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Q2.
In May 2009, suspected NAZI death camp guard John Demjanjuk was deported from where to Germany?
A
New South Wales, Australia
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Q3.
The official World Cup for which sport, held every second year from 1986 to 2004 and annually thereafter, is hosted by a number of countries from Canada, USA, UK, multiple European countries, to Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland?
Note: This question was updated in May 2014
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Q4.
What famous picture was stolen from its frame in the Louvre in 1911, was recovered in Florence and returned in 1913?
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Q5.
What town 16 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, dominated by the Puritans in the 17th century, was famous for its witchcraft trials?
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Q6.
Which French revolutionary, who was instrumental in the death of the King and the establishment of the Republic, was guillotined in 1794?
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Q7.
What device found on ships from the 18th century, consists of a telescope, a graduated arc and two mirrors, one of which is attached to a moveable arm?
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