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Sunday's Quiz: From The Archives

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Q1. What is a derogatory term for verse considered of little literary value?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in January 2013
A
Doggerel
B
Cattery
C
Mousing
D
Ratatouille
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Q2. Which of these is a card game popular with children?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in February 2012
A
Bang
B
Crackle
C
Pop
D
Snap
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Q3. Which of these was engaged in the ground-breaking study and understanding of genetics?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in December 2014
A
Dmitri Mendeleev
B
Gregor Johann Mendel
C
Felix Mendelssohn Bartoldy
D
Mendele Mocher Sforim
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Q4. What is an isthmus?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in February 2012
A
A cloud formation
B
Narrow strip of land joining two larger ones
C
A figure of speech
D
A species of tomato
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Q5. Ordo Virtutum composed in 1151 and thought to be one of the oldest pieces of liturgical drama, set to music and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, was written by whom?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in October 2013
A
Odo of Cluny
B
Pope Gregory I
C
Hildegard of Bingen
D
Hucbald
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Q6. What is a Quagga?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in January 2011
A
A group of political lobbyists
B
A type of zebra, now extinct
C
A semi-independent government organisation
D
An energetic and distant galaxy with an active galactic nucleus
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Q7. Where was the Maguindanao massacre on 23 November 2009, when 58 victims, including a politician's wife, his two sisters, journalists, lawyers, aides, and motorists who were witnesses, were kidnapped and brutally killed?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in October 2011
A
Ecuador
B
Philippines
C
Madagascar
D
Spain
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