Daily Quiz #2413
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 27 August 2015
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Q1.
According to legend, who was the sweetheart of Robin Hood?
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Q2.
Who wrote the Queensberry rules published in 1867 for the sport of boxing?
A
Percy Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry
B
John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
C
John Graham Chambers, one of the founders of the British Amateur Athletic Club
D
Sir Montague Shearman, one of the founders of the Amateur Athletics Association
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Q3.
What narrows do you sail through to reach Scotia Sea?
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Q4.
What is the setting for George Orwell's book "Animal Farm"?
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Q5.
He is credited with multiple advances in science, technology, engineering, anatomy, and the art of painting; who was he?
A
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni (1475-1564)
B
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
C
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
D
Pierre Abélard (1079-1142)
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Q6.
A group of quails or snipe is usually called what?
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Q7.
The religious movement known as the Doukhobors was oppressed and circumscribed in Russia where it first developed; when its members were eventually allowed to leave what country welcomed them?
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