General Knowledge Quiz for 26 January 2010
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1
The half-length portrait of Lisa di Anton Maria di Noldo Gherardini is better known by what name?
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Girl With a Pearl Earring
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2
Which word was coined by Karel Capek in his play "R. U. R." in 1929?
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3
Which English playwright ("The Conscious Lovers") founded the "Tatler", the "Spectator" and the "Guardian"?
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4
If you travelled downsteam from Lake Victoria, which forms part of the borders of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, which city would you be in when you reached the ocean?
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5
A baby's first teeth are called what?
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6
Olympic gold medallists Fanny Blankers-Koen, Inge de Bruijn, Leontien van Moorsel, Yvonne van Gennip, Ard Schenk, Jochem Uytdehaage, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Gianni Romme, Marianne Timmer, Wim Ruska, Charles Pahud de Mortanges and Adolph van der Voort van Zijp represented which country?
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7
The USA's oldest non-broken "Treaty of Friendship", negotiated by Thomas Barclay, signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1786, and ratified by US Congress in July 1787, is with which country?
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