Daily Quiz #483
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 15 May 2010
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Q1.
The sun is hot because of the nuclear transformation of hydrogen to which other gas?
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Q2.
What changed its name to Iran in 1935?
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Q3.
What was the surname of the 19th century English siblings Christina, a poet ("Goblin Market", "Prince's Progress" and "The Face of the Deep"), Dante, a pre-Raphaelite painter and poet ("The Blessed Diamond"), and William, also a pre-Raphaelite painter, who translated Dante's "Inferno"?
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Q4.
In croquet, what is used to hit the ball?
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Q5.
It is believed that which building stands on the site of temples built successively by Micah, Zerubbabel and Herod in Jerusalem?
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The Good Shepherd Hotel
C
Basilica of the Knights Templar
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Q6.
Buster Keaton's film "The Three Ages" included the invention of Stone Age baseball and modern traffic problems in classical Rome. What is this an example of?
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Q7.
In which British TV series did the lead character refer to his wife as "she who must be obeyed"?
Note: This question was updated in November 2013
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