Daily Quiz #270
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 14 October 2009
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Q1.
Who was the proprietor of "New York World" who made a bequest to award 12 prizes annually to American authors and composers?
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Q2.
In which of these games would you hear talk of a gambit?
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Q3.
What 1966 Broadway musical was based on Fellini's film "Nights of Cabiria"?
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Q4.
What number, when multiplied by itself, has the same answer when it is added to itself?
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Q5.
What Indian word was used by the Portuguese for army servants and became applied by British to Asiatic seamen?
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Q6.
The largest islands of which group, 1500 miles north east of the Philippines, are Saipan, Timan, Rota and Guam?
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Q7.
The revolver, with a single barrel and a number of chambers for cartridges fired by a one-lock mechanism, was patented in 1835 by whom?
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