Wildcard Quiz #538
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 11 May 2019
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Q1.
Which of these is a portmanteau word?
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2
Q2.
What can "obverse" mean?
A
Insensitive or wilfully blind to a fact, or something seen by others as a truth
C
Back of a page in a book
D
The opposite aspect of a fact
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3
Q3.
The phrase "spick and span" means ...?
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4
Q4.
Finocchio is a type of what salad vegetable?
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5
Q5.
What French phrase means "sea-sickness"?
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6
Q6.
Which building on the Île de la Cité in Paris took 300 years to build from 1163, and was one of the first to have flying buttresses?
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Q7.
In the original meaning of "decimate", who is killed?
B
All but a tenth of the people
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