Daily Quiz #673
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 21 November 2010
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Q1.
Which gas is likely to be present in a light bulb?
Note: This question was updated in July 2015
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Q2.
Who, in 2003, received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, for the Sydney Opera House, a multi-venue performing arts centre on Bennelong Point in Sydney, Australia?
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Q3.
Which British film actor and author of 9 autobiographies and 6 fiction books first appeared on a West End stage using his own first name of Derek?
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Q4.
What is the name used in North America for a man who makes his living by felling trees?
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Q5.
Carl Lewis won Olympic gold medals at 4 Olympic Games in 4 different events, including the 4x100m relay. He did not win gold for one of these sports. Which one?
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Q6.
Which of these are dialects of the Inuit language spoken in the northern Northwest Territories of Canada?
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Q7.
The Clipper ship "Dunedin" caused excitement when it arrived in London after a 98 day voyage in 1882. Where had it come from?
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