Daily Quiz #861
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 28 May 2011
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Q1.
King George III signed The Instrument of Foundation on 10 December 1768 for (and made large grants from his private funds to) which independent, privately funded institution?
A
The Chartered Institute for IT
B
The Royal Academy of Arts
C
The Geological Society of London
D
The Royal Society of Chemistry
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Q2.
Eleanor was the name of the First Lady of which of these US presidents?
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Q3.
Which poisonous compound can be a gas, solid or liquid, the most infamous application of which was use by the Nazi regime in Germany for mass murder in some gas chambers during the Holocaust?
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Q4.
What is the name of the Polish intelligence agency, which gathers information abroad for the Republic of Poland, that was created in 2002 from the split of Urząd Ochrony Państwa?
A
The Public Security Intelligence Agency
C
The State Intelligence Service (SHISH)
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Q5.
The national flag of which of these does not have a building on it?
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Q6.
In December 2009, Massimo Tartaglia attacked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with what?
Note: This question was updated in July 2020
A
A framed picture of the Pope
D
A model of Milan Cathedral
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Q7.
In what year did Canada win a gold medal for the first time at an Olympic Games that they hosted?
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