Daily Quiz #780
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 8 March 2011
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Q1.
What compound is also known as vitamin B9 or folacin?
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Q2.
Which of these flags does not have a sun on it?
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Q3.
Jean Claude van Damme has which of these nicknames?
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Q4.
The early works of which American playwright (best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") reflect an "Americanisation" of the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco?
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Q5.
"Joltin' Joe" was the nickname of which American sportsman?
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Q6.
What book was to have been called, in translation, "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"?
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The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms
C
Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation (The Field Equations of Gravitation)
D
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
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Q7.
Which of these comes closest to the meaning of the French phrase "Billet doux"?
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