Daily Quiz #26
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Q1.
How many of the Great Lakes form part of the border between the U S A and Canada?
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Q2.
In 1952, Jonas Salk invented a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infection by which disease?
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Q3.
In which of these films did Clint Eastwood not play a character called Inspector “Dirty Harry” Callaghan?
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Q4.
What playwright wrote many of his plays for the Stephen Joseph Company in Scarborough, UK?
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Q5.
Who had a positive drug test for excessive levels of testosterone after initially being declared the winner of the 2006 Tour de France?
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Q6.
Both opposing generals, the British general Wolfe, and the French general Montcalm, were killed in a battle for which city in 1759?
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Q7.
In the 1960s, record players were manufactured to revolve at 78, 45 and 33 revolutions per minute, and what other speed?
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