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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?

A
Sinker
B
Plumb-bob
C
Groper
D
Scuttler
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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?

A
Christ the Redeemer
B
The Thinker
C
Cleopatra's Needle
D
The Little Mermaid
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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?

A
Erin
B
Hibernia
C
Venus
D
Tootsie
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Q4. Which of these represents the greatest number in colloquial terms?

Note: This question was updated in April 2017
A
Grand
B
Baker's dozen
C
Ton
D
Three score and ten
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Q5. Who was the last of these to win their first Oscar?

Note: This question was updated in February 2020
A
Spencer Tracy
B
Anthony Hopkins
C
Marlon Brando
D
Jack Nicholson
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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?

A
Australia
B
Great Britain
C
France
D
USA
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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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