Daily Quiz #2832
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 19 October 2016
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1
Q1.
What film, in production between 2007 and 2009, was directed by James Cameron ("Titanic")?
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2
Q2.
How many minutes long is a round in an official boxing match?
A
As determined at the start of the match
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3
Q3.
Which of these is a Spanish word for gathering cattle together, for example, for branding them?
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4
Q4.
What transport artery runs for 13 miles between Brig, Switzerland and Domodossola, Italy?
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5
Q5.
How did General George S Patton, responsible for a number of US victories in World War II, die?
A
Old age in a rest home in Philadelphia in 1958
B
As the result of a car accident near Heidelberg, Germany, in 1945
C
In a plane crash off the coast of Japan in 1946
D
Assassination in Manila, The Philippines, in 1945
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6
Q6.
What word is given to the association of dissimilar organisms for mutual benefit?
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Q7.
Who, after being lured to the Moika Palace on 16 December 1916, was poisoned with cyanide, shot 4 times, beaten and drowned in the Neva River (where he had tried to claw his way from under the ice) but was reported to sit up on his burning funeral pyre?
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