Daily Quiz #224
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 29 August 2009
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Q1.
Which Formula One team, founded in 1963 by a New Zealander, were the first to design a car using a carbon fibre monocoque?
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Q2.
Which of these is one of the 7 letters used by the Romans to signify numbers?
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Q3.
What is the common term for "pre-patellar bursitis"?
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Q4.
Whose play about the Salem witch trials in the 17th century drew parallels to McCarthyism in the 1950s?
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Q5.
Who had a morning show from June to October 1980 and a late night show from 1982 to 1993 weeknights at 12:30 a.m. at NBC in New York, then moved to CBS where the show screened at 11:30 p.m.?
Note: This question was updated in April 2017
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Q6.
Which previously independent country, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25-50 km (15-30 miles) off the coast of Africa, united with Tanganyika to form Tanzania in 1964?
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Q7.
What is a slight fluctuation in pitch caused by the player of a stringed instrument shaking a finger while stopping a string?
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