Daily Quiz #797
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 25 March 2011
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Q1.
The "Dome of Discovery" was built on London's South Bank for which occasion?
A
Festival of Britain, 1951
B
Millennium Celebrations, 2000
C
The Great Exhibition, 1851
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Q2.
What is "chalcedony"?
A
A naturally magnetised mineral
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Q3.
Which of these 1955 films is a bedroom farce set in Sweden in the early 1900s, directed by Ingmar Bergman?
B
Smiles Of A Summer Night
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Q4.
The names of how many states of the USA both start and end with the letter "a"?
Note: This question was updated in December 2020
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Q5.
A "bodice ripper" is a type of what?
Note: This question was updated in April 2018
D
A type of romance novel
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Q6.
Canadian Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto and joined her elder brother in New York City, working as a bookkeeper for the E.R. Squibb Pharmaceuticals Company. By what name is she better known?
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Q7.
Who was the All Black (New Zealand rugby) captain to have been inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame (now the World Rugby Hall of Fame) in 2007, the year after the Hall was established?
Note: This question was updated in November 2017
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