Daily Quiz #2573
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 3 February 2016
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Q1.
Who has been called His Purple Majesty, His Royal Badness, TAFKAP, The Artist, Symbol, Love Symbol and The Purple One?
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2
Q2.
In which country is the Plateau of the Great Karoo?
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3
Q3.
Which king of England was nicknamed Rufus?
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Q4.
Which is the gerund in the sentence "we listened to the whispering"?
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Q5.
What is the setting for the musical "Oliver!"?
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Q6.
Although the speed of light is a constant 186,000 miles per second (299,792,458 metres per second) when passing through a vacuum, it slows in dense mediums. What is the densest of these mediums, i.e. slows light the most?
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A gas of bosons (Bose-Einstein condensates) at near absolute zero
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Q7.
Which piece on a chessboard can move only one space in any direction?
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