Daily Quiz #3165
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 17 September 2017
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Q1.
Which province, state or borough in the Americas consists of a peninsula and close to 4,000 islands?
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2
Q2.
What was the fate of "Blanche" in Poulenc's opera "Les Dialogues des Carmelites"?
A
She is strangled by her husband
B
She is stabbed to death by her lover
C
She goes mad and commits suicide
D
She decides to go the guillotine
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3
Q3.
In a card game, what is "taking a trick"?
A
Sneaking a look at other players' cards
B
Deceiving a player into not playing their winning card
C
Playing the winning card in a round where all players have played their card
D
Doing cartwheels while waiting for a turn to play
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4
Q4.
According to the Bible, which Moabitess married Boaz in Jerusalem and had two sons, Jesse and David?
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5
Q5.
The sun is hot because of the nuclear transformation of hydrogen to which other gas?
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6
Q6.
The revolver, with a single barrel and a number of chambers for cartridges fired by a one-lock mechanism, was patented in 1835 by whom?
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Q7.
When Lieutenant, later Captain, James Cook sailed for the Pacific Ocean in 1768 what had the voyage been commissioned to achieve?
A
Contact with Pacific native peoples
B
Observation of the transit of Venus
C
Finding the hypothetical Terra Australis
D
Bringing back a moai from Easter Island
Select from the options above.