Daily Quiz #290
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 3 November 2009
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Q1.
The Great Western Railway's “City of Truro” was unofficially recorded as the first steam locomotive to reach a speed of 102.3 mph (164 km/h) on 9 May 1904, but the 100 mile per hour (160 km/h) record was not officially recorded until 30 November 1934, by which locomotive?
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Cornish Riviera Express
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Q2.
Which English poet and dramatist wrote "The What D'ye Call It" (1715), "The Beggar's Opera" (1728) and "Polly" (1729)?
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Q3.
Which river runs through the town where Shakespeare was born?
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Q4.
Which of these was imprisoned for causing the explosion of a Pan American airliner over Lockerbie in 1988?
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Q5.
What does "Zorro" mean in Spanish?
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Q6.
The course for which of these sports might contain a "hairpin bend"?
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Q7.
Which island has belonged to Carthage, Rome, the Saracens, the King of Aragon, the Dukes of Savoy, United Italy under Victor Emmanuel and was granted autonomous government in 1947?
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