Daily Quiz #2498
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 20 November 2015
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Q1.
The Equitable Life Assurance Building in New York City, built in 1870, and 130 feet (40 m) high, was the first office building to be equipped with what?
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Q2.
Manfred von Brauchitsch from East Germany, who drove in Grand Prix and European Championships in the 1930s winning, and sometimes losing with spectacularly bad luck, was associated with what car?
B
Mercedes Benz's Silver Arrow
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Q3.
The island of Réunion, Mauritius, is closest to which other country to its west?
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Q4.
If x = yz², what is the value of x if y = 4 and z = 3?
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Q5.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, once managing director of the International Monetary Fund and a candidate for election as President of France, was dogged with accusations of what?
B
Illegal sexual activity
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Q6.
Where is the only Playboy Club that is still operating in 2012?
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Q7.
Which melodramatic opera depicting graphic scenes of torture, murder and suicide, set in Rome in June 1800 when the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome was threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy, contains some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias?
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