Daily Quiz #2421
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 4 September 2015
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Q1.
Which of these battles is the most recent?
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Q2.
Helen of Troy is particularly known in American and French thoroughbred horseracing circles for what?
A
It was the nickname for attractive and major prize-winning jockey Francine Villeneuve
B
She was adopted as the symbol for Idle Hour Farm, prominent in racing circles
C
Her name was use for a severe classical style of riding gear for women in the 1920s
D
She was the dam of La Troienne, who was imported to the USA and became dam of 10 race winners
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C
Impulses sent to the brain
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Q4.
What is the name given to the hypotheses, now superseded, that the movement of continents and the appearance of new crustal material at mid-ocean ridges is because the Earth's volume is increasing?
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Q5.
Typically what is in best supply in the Kalahari?
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Q6.
Who wrote "J'accuse", an open letter to Félix Fauré, President of France, accusing the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus (a French officer sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage) that was published on 13 January 1898, in the newspaper "L'Aurore"?
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Q7.
Who has been quoted as saying “If you have a statue in the city centre, you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right - but as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture”?
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