Daily Quiz #689
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 7 December 2010
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Q1.
What is the word for the weight on a line of a fishing rod?
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Q2.
What is the best known work of Danish-Icelandic sculptor Edvard Eriksen, which he completed in 1913, that sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbour at Langelinie?
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Q3.
What word was used by poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists in English as a romantic name for Ireland, that is the name sometimes given to the female personification of Ireland?
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Q4.
Which of these represents the greatest number in colloquial terms?
Note: This question was updated in April 2017
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Q5.
Who was the last of these to win their first Oscar?
Note: This question was updated in February 2020
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Q6.
Rugby union was included in 4 Olympic Games between 1900 and 1924. Which team won the most gold medals for it in that period?
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Q7.
Why is Harvard University named after John Harvard, a young clergyman from the London Borough of Southwark, England?
A
He safeguarded the investment of the College Trust Funds for 40 years
B
He arranged for a Royal Charter for the College from Charles I
C
He wrote the first procedure manual for the administrators
D
He bequeathed the College his library of 400 books and £779
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