Daily Quiz #726
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 13 January 2011
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Q1.
Which 1962 film, directed by Tony Richardson from a script by Alan Sillitoe, is about a boy (played by Tom Courtenay) in Borstal and his defiance of the accepted norms of British society?
A
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
C
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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Q2.
English couple Fred and Rosemary West were famous as what?
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Q3.
Which 19th century Russian's compositions include 8 operas, the ballets "Swan Lake", "The Nutcracker" and "The Sleeping Beauty", 6 symphonies and 3 piano concertos?
D
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Q4.
What equation is considered to be remarkable for its "mathematical beauty", because 3 basic arithmetic operations occur exactly once each (addition, multiplication, and exponentiation), and it links five fundamental mathematical constants: (the numbers 0, 1, π, e, and i)?
D
Einstein's equation of mass-energy equivalence
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Q5.
What name, currently used for the principal chamber of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, was given by Sinn Fein to the revolutionary parliament of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic that they set up in Dublin in 1919?
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Q6.
Which of these is a popular theory for the reason for the existence of Stonehenge?
A
The ruins of the world's first skyscraper
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Q7.
What game requires 6 hoops and 2 posts set up on a ground around 35 yards by 28 yards?
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