Daily Quiz #1182
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 13 April 2012
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Q1.
What Brazilian city exports more coffee than any other port in the world?
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Q2.
The first European scientific observation of a transit of Venus (when Venus passes between the Sun and Earth, and can be seen as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun) was made by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree in England in what year?
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Q3.
What does the word "Kendo", a modern Japanese martial art, mean?
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Q4.
At the official opening ceremony of which building, on 29 March 1871, did the Prince of Wales take the place of the Queen to declare it open?
Note: This question was updated in June 2020
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Q5.
Which Prince appears in the title of an opera by Borodin?
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Q6.
The Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, a street theatre troupe that toured the USA between 1971 and 1993 as the self-described "world's smallest circus" was a ministry of what religious order?
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Q7.
What was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800?
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