Daily Quiz #636
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 15 October 2010
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Q1.
Do-si-do is a term used in what activity?
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Q2.
By what name was Dino Paul Proscetti better known?
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Q3.
Where did Malcolm Campbell set a land speed record of 245.7 m.p.h. in 1931?
Note: This question was updated in August 2017
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Alice Springs, Central Australia
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Q4.
What weather condition can cause a "whiteout"?
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Q5.
Which brass musical instrument has a slide mechanism that enables the sounding length of the tube to be adjusted?
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Q6.
What is the official capital of Sri Lanka?
Note: This question was updated in December 2016
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Sri Jayawardenepura-Kotte
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Q7.
After public outrage over a painting by Goya of a nude woman ("the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art"), he refused to paint clothes on her, and created a new painting of the same woman in the same pose, clothed. The paintings are known as "The Nude ... " what and "The Clothed ..." what?
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