General Knowledge Quiz for 1 May 2010
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1
How many teams have ever entered the Olympic La Crosse competitions?
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2
What name is given to the eastern part of a Christian church, sometimes known as the choir, which is usually separated from the nave by a screen or railing?
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3
In Shakespeare's "Hamlet", who was Ophelia's father?
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4
What wine is named after a city in the south of Iraq?
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5
What is the name for a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profit earned?
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6
What is the official latin name for Switzerland, which translates as the "Swiss Confederation"?
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Confoederatio Helvetica
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7
What ancient people, whose major cities were Tyre and Sidon, founded Carthage?
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