Daily Quiz #593
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 2 September 2010
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Q1.
What name is used by native North Americans for a house made of blocks of ice?
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Q2.
What is the accounting term for a liability that may arise depending on what happens with an undecided future event?
Note: This question was updated in March 2017
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Q3.
For what did William Kemmler, then at New York's Auburn Prison, become famous on 6 August 1890?
A
The first person to be executed via the electric chair
B
The first person to break out of a prison ringed with barbed wire
C
The first warder to be convicted of murdering a prison inmate
D
The first prison manager to allow conjugal visits
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Q4.
In the film Spiderman 2 (2004), which New York newspaper does Spiderman's alter ego again take photographs for?
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Q5.
Who, in 1794, patented the cotton gin, that enabled cotton fibres to be plucked from seeds mechanically?
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Q6.
What is the name used in the USA for the board game that the English call "draughts"?
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Q7.
Which word means "to refuse to take part"?
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