Wildcard Quiz #7
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 7 March 2009
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Q1.
What is the correct spelling for a sign on a female toilet?
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Q2.
Which of these is not the name of one of King Lear's children, according to Shakespeare's play “King Lear”?
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Q3.
What is the name given to the hypotheses, now superseded, that the movement of continents and the appearance of new crustal material at mid-ocean ridges is because the Earth's volume is increasing?
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Q4.
In Greek legend, a woodland deity, half man, half goat, is called a … ?
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Q5.
What is the name of the adjustable shutters attached to a stage light to control the area of light it covers?
Note: This question was updated in May 2015
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Q6.
In England, in the first half of the twentieth century, a "vesta" was a common term for a type of what?
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Q7.
Who were the lollards?
A
Followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th centuries
B
A group of unemployed who rioted in London in 1982
C
The inventors of the reclining lounge chair in 1961
D
The first unionists, from Tolpuddle, England, in 1834
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