Daily Quiz #983
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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Q1.
What was the real name of El Cid, a Spanish national hero?
D
Emiliano Zapata Salazar
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Q2.
What is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies that consists mainly of psalms and is said at noon?
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Q3.
What is Stephen Hawking's disease?
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Q4.
Which country left the British Commonwealth in 1949?
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Q5.
In September 2003, who was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open wicker basket beneath a hot air balloon?
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Q6.
Which of these is a member of the European Union?
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Q7.
What was the first book to be printed in England, in 1477?
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"The Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres"
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"The Game and Plays of the Chesse"
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