Daily Quiz #817
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 14 April 2011
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Q1.
What are Gliese 876 d, OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, COROT-Exo-7b, Gliese 581 d and Gliese 581 c?
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Q2.
What is the southernmost national capital city in the world?
A
Buenos Aires, Argentina
B
Cape Town, South Africa
D
Wellington, New Zealand
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Q3.
What does an horologist make?
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Q4.
Who is the last person to die on stage in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"?
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Q5.
What number do the numbers on opposite sides of a standard cube-shaped die always add up to?
Note: This question was updated in October 2017
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Q6.
What structural element of a building protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface, creating usable space in the roof by adding headroom and usually enabling addition of windows?
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Q7.
In an operation headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid (a cousin of then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein), Iraq used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against what minority in 1987 and 1988?
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