Daily Quiz #377
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 29 January 2010
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Q1.
Who discovered, in 1895, that X Rays could be applied to medicine?
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Q2.
What is the name of the golf trophy for competition between teams of professional golfers from Europe and the USA that was first contested between Great Britain and the USA in 1927?
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Q3.
Where is Baffin Island?
A
In the Gulf of St Lawrence
C
Between the Canadian mainland and Greenland
D
Off the coast of Alaska
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Q4.
What film, sub-titled "The Story of Christy Brown", is a 1989 drama directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Julie Hale, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee and Cyril Cusack, that tells the true story of an Irishman born with cerebral palsy?
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Q5.
A phrase meaning "there must be some truth in the rumour" is "where there is [what] there is fire"?
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Q6.
Where was the British ship Royal Oak sunk by German submarine U47 in October 1939?
Note: This question was updated in July 2017
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Coral Sea, off the coast of Australia
C
River Plate, South America
D
Scapa Flow, Orkney, Scotland
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Q7.
What organisation, set up to encourage scientific research, was founded in 1648 and obtained a charter from King Charles II in 1660?
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