Daily Quiz #456
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 18 April 2010
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Q1.
What spirit, in Ireland and Scotland, makes noises near a house when someone is about to die?
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Q2.
Which English duo had hits between 1984 and 1987 that included “West End Girls", "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", "Love Comes Quickly", "Suburbia", "It's a Sin", "What Have I Done to Deserve This?", "Rent" and "Always on My Mind"?
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Q3.
What was the name given to Barbary pirates who raided ships in the Mediterranean and the south European coast from bases on the north coast of Africa?
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Q4.
What is the name for the 225 million years that it takes the sun to go around the galaxy?
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Q5.
Which game has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in "A Little Pretty Pocketbook" where it is called Baseball?
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Q6.
Which of these disappeared from his job at the British Foreign Office in 1951, at the same time as Donald MacLean, so that both were suspected of spying for Russia?
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Q7.
Lake Winnipeg is in which Canadian province?
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