Daily Quiz #813
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 10 April 2011
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Q1.
The Russian city of Volgograd that was called Tsaritsyn from 1589 to 1925, changed its name in 1961 from what?
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Q2.
"The sum of the squares of the lengths of the four sides of a parallelogram equals the sum of the squares of the lengths of the two diagonals" is known as what?
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Q3.
Which of these is a New Zealand actress best known for playing Charlie Harper's neighbour Rose on "Two and a Half Men", and for her roles in films such as "The Informant!", "Away We Go", "Flags of Our Fathers", "Shattered Glass", "Ever After" and "Heavenly Creatures"?
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Q4.
What led to Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, South Africa, Japan, New Zealand and Australia variously controlling the Cameroons, Togoland, Ruanda-Urundi, the Kionga Triangle, South West Africa, the Marshall Islands, the Carolines, the Marianas, the Palau Islands, Kiautschou, Western Samoa, part of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Nauru?
Note: This question was updated in August 2016
B
The end of World War II
C
Formation of the League of Nations
D
Formation of the United Nations
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Q5.
"The Unsinkable Seven" is a nickname given to the only competitors to finish what rally, in both 1963 and 1968?
B
East African Safari Rally
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Q6.
What 1936 film sets out a future to 2036, predicting World War II from 23 December 1940, bombing raids on cities, a plague ("wandering sickness") in 1966, and a civilization based in Basra, Iraq, that renounced war and outlawed independent nation-states?
D
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
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Q7.
What sort of animal is Beatrix Potter's "Mrs Tiggy-Winkle"?
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