Daily Quiz #3255
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 16 December 2017
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Q1.
According to the proverb, people who sup with whom should use a long spoon?
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2
Q2.
What did the original name of the game now known as mahjong mean?
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3
Q3.
Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, which country is completely surrounded by the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, which also divides it in two?
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4
Q4.
Which US film actress married and divorced both Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan?
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Q5.
What is an open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side, resembling the path of a projectile under the action of gravity?
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Q6.
Cameron Carpenter, born in Pennsylvania and currently living in the USA and Berlin, was the first what to be nominated for a Grammy Award for a solo album?
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Q7.
What connects one of the symbols of the Lillehammer Winter Olympics 1994, and two Norwegian teenagers on the island of Tro, Norway, in 2016?
A
Their mother designed the symbol while living on the island
B
They defaced 5,000 year old carvings on the island, one of which inspired the symbol
C
They were performing tableaux vivants of Olympic symbols
D
They found the original sketches for the symbol
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