Daily Quiz #2367
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 12 July 2015
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Q1.
The first synthetic organic chemical dye, mauveine, was discovered in 1856 as a byproduct of the search for the synthetic form of what?
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Q2.
The international multi-million dollar prizes set up in 2012 to recognise important recent achievements by scientists in (by 2015) Mathematics, Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics are known as what?
A
The Breakthrough Prizes
D
The Queen Elizabeth Prize
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Q3.
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe were better known as what when they hit #1 in 1984 in the UK, Canada and the USA?
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Q4.
Which game has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in "A Little Pretty Pocketbook" where it is called Baseball?
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Q5.
Which of these bodies of water has the largest surface area?
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Q6.
A nobleman who spent at least 32 years in asylums and prison (10 in the Bastille), the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) was famous for a life preoccupation which led to famous (hopefully) fictional writings, of which kind?
C
Erotica combining philosophy with pornography, emphasising violence, criminality and blasphemy
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Q7.
Barabas is the central character in what 16th century play?
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