Daily Quiz #687
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 5 December 2010
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Q1.
Who is the next in this series: Laue (1914), W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915), Barkla (1917), Planck (1918), Stark (1919), Guillaume (1920) ... ?
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Q2.
What, according to John Lennon, "is just what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans"?
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Q3.
Which teams contested baseball's American League Championship series in 2009?
A
Milwaukee Brewers and Oakland Athletics
B
Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians
C
Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox
D
New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels
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Q4.
The Rhine, the Mississippi and the Amazon are all what type of geographical feature?
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Q5.
The Greeks constructed hippodromes for holding what events?
B
Fights with African animals
C
A form of Sumo wrestling
D
Chariot and horse races
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Q7.
What is the name for the chemical signals that trigger a natural response in another member of the same species that affect behaviour or physiology?
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