General Knowledge Quiz for 14 April 2011
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1
What are Gliese 876 d, OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, COROT-Exo-7b, Gliese 581 d and Gliese 581 c?
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2
What is the southernmost national capital city in the world?
A
Buenos Aires, Argentina
B
Cape Town, South Africa
D
Wellington, New Zealand
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3
What does an horologist make?
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4
Who is the last person to die on stage in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"?
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5
What number do the the numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to?
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6
What structural element of a building protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface, creating usable space in the roof by adding headroom and usually enabling addition of windows?
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7
In an operation headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid (a cousin of then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein), Iraq used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against what minority in 1987 and 1988?
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