Daily Quiz #866
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 2 June 2011
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Q1.
The period of the French Revolution when the Girondists were guillotined, which ended with the guillotining of Robespierre, was known as what?
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The Black Hole of Calcutta
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Q2.
Jonah Lomu is associated with which of these sports?
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Q3.
Who presented a list of 23 problems in mathematics at a conference of the International Congress of Mathematicians on 8 August 1900 in the Sorbonne, of which only 10 have resolutions which are fully accepted?
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Q4.
What did blues singer B.B. King call his guitar?
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Q5.
What fabulous creature appears in the Heraldry of Wales, Japan and China and is typical of evil in Christian lore?
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Q6.
Which of these is an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada?
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Q7.
What name is given to a cultural and societal phenomenon characterised by an excessive preoccupation with the individual's own appearance, accompanied by difficulties coping with the aging process and with the requirements of maturation?
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