Daily Quiz #5579
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 27 April 2024
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Q1.
A play, first performed in 1933, whose writer died in 1936, continues to attract powerful international interpretations, including film, TV, and dance; what is the play?
A
Mandarine by Jean Anouilh
B
Ah Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill
C
Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca
D
Drama at Inish by Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson
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Q2.
American saxophonist and clarinettist Lester Young was famously a partner, as a close friend and in recordings, with which singer?
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Q3.
Who retained his title as the World Chess Champion after a challenge from Veselin Topalov in 2010?
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Q4.
What is one of the main ingredients of marzipan, besides egg whites and sugar?
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Q5.
Between 1952 and 1955 the Argentinian provinces of La Pampa and Chaco were known by the names of two members of what family?
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Q6.
In 1291 a number of mainly alpine European communities formed a protective alliance which with the later addition of others became what is now known as what?
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A
The union of polo horsemen
C
Use of radar pulses to create an image of land subsurface
D
Gaelic language teaching
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