Daily Quiz #501
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 2 June 2010
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1
Q1.
What is the surname of the film director whose first names are Francis Ford?
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2
Q2.
Which race, the first of which was in 1829 and held annually since 1856 (with the exception of the two world wars) is rowed each spring on the Thames in London?
Note: This question was updated in May 2015
A
Head of the River Fours
C
The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
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3
Q3.
The 520 men and 197 women who arrived in 11 British ships at Botany Bay, Australia, on 26 January 1788, were mostly what?
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Q4.
The song "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" is from which of these?
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5
A
A liquid used for cleaning diamonds
C
The "waiting room" for Heaven
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Q6.
The colloquial name "cockney" is traditionally applied to a Londoner born within the sound of the bells of which church?
C
St Martin-in-the-Fields
D
St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside
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Q7.
Which of these US states does not have an Atlantic coastline?
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