Daily Quiz #757
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 13 February 2011
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Q1.
Crossword clues are divided into which of these two categories?
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Q2.
Irish milliner Philip Treacy made the wide-brimmed cream-coloured hat worn by whom at her wedding on 9 April 2005?
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Q3.
In the USA, what was significant about The Long Island Motor Parkway built by William Kissam Vanderbilt II which opened on 10 October 1908?
A
The first parking building
B
One of the first toll roads
C
The first "gated community"
D
The first road to have electric lighting
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Q4.
On 19 June 1975, an inquest jury named whom as the murderer of Sandra Rivett, the last time that an inquest was allowed to name the person they suspected of committing such a crime?
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Q5.
Cathay is now a poetic name for which country?
Note: This question was updated in September 2017
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Q6.
What device, a tool for studying astronomical phenomena, uses the fact that when a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material?
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Q7.
The land of Azeroth features in which video game?
C
Heroes of Might and Magic
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