Daily Quiz #245
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 19 September 2009
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1
Which UK TV series starred David Jason as market trader Derek "Del Boy" Trotter and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his brother Rodney?
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2
Gruyère is a town in which country?
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3
Which machine game is the basis for a storyline in "Friends" ("The One Where Joey Dates Rachel"), where Chandler enters crude words onto the game's high-score screen and has Phoebe try to beat his scores (removing them) before Ross's young son arrives?
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4
What is represented by the peace symbol, which looks like a 3 legged inverted "Y" inside a circle?
A
A pitchfork stuck in the ground
B
An inverted "Victory" sign on a stick
C
A combination of the semaphore letters N and D, standing for "nuclear disarmament"
D
The alternative paths that humankind can decide to take
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5
Who was the commander of the Luftwaffe during World War II and died by taking poison after being condemned to death at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946?
C
Walter Richard Rudolph Hess
D
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
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6
Which of these titles, first used for Charlemagne in 800 AD, existed until the early 20th century?
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7
What is the name for an alcoholic preparation of opium widely used in the 18th and 19th centuries to treat a number of different complaints?
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