Daily Quiz #643
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 22 October 2010
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Q1.
The MacRobertson International Shield is competed for by Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States and known affectionately as "the MacRob", in which sport?
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Q2.
After being called various names including the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Congo-Léopoldville, what was the (now) Democratic Republic of the Congo known as?
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Q3.
The 2006 Grammy Award for the Best Musical Theatre recording were John Du Prez & Eric Idle (producers & composers) and Eric Idle (lyricist) for which show?
B
Monty Python's Spamalot
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Q4.
Which Frenchman was a Franciscan, then a Benedictine monk, a teacher, a professor of anatomy and a priest, who wrote "Gargantua et Pantagruel", a huge comic narrative full of miscellaneous learning from the 16th century?
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Q5.
Rachel Hunter, model and Rod Stewart's ex wife, posed nude for which magazine in 2004?
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Q6.
Who discovered the two moons of Mars in 1877?
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Q7.
According to some Christian tradition, who were Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar?
Note: This question was updated in February 2017
C
Three coins in a fountain
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