Daily Quiz #407
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 28 February 2010
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Q1.
Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII of England, is the great grandmother of which of these people?
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Opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa
D
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
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Q2.
What is an alternative name for a hydrolaccolith, a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic that can reach up to 70 metres (230 ft) in height and up to 600 m (2,000 ft) in diameter?
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Q3.
What instrument consisting basically of a telescope that can be rotated vertically and horizontally on graduated scales was designed for use in land surveying for measuring by triangulation?
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Q4.
Who is quoted as saying "... advertising ... attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. ... Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little"?
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Q5.
In 1819 Venezuelan Simon Bolivar became the first President, and, except for a brief retirement, remained so until his death in 1830, of which republic?
Note: This question was updated in August 2018
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Q6.
On 12 September 1995, the Belarusian air force shot down a gas balloon, killing two Americans, during a race for which trophy?
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Q7.
Which of these is an alternative name for Santa Claus?
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