Daily Quiz #452
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 14 April 2010
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Q1.
Which of these cities is closest to the ruins of Pompeii?
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2
Q2.
The phrase "spick and span" means ...?
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3
Q3.
What is the name given to a bone fracture when the bone bends and splinters rather than breaks in two?
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4
Q4.
In the 18th century, Capability Brown popularised the naturalistic style of what?
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Q5.
Which Russian revolutionary became Foreign Commissar, lost the battle for leadership to Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party and lived in exile thereafter?
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Q6.
In 1977, Hamida Djandoubi was involved in what act that was special in French history?
A
He tried to assassinate the President
B
He set off a bomb that destroyed a large shopping mall in Paris
C
He was the last person to be guillotined
D
He was the first Frenchman to swim the English Channel
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Q7.
Before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, teams from which country caused a scandal by posing for a pre-Olympic newspaper advertisement pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes, to mimic the typical Asian?
Note: This question was updated in June 2017
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