Daily Quiz #932
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 7 August 2011
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Q1.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index that shows how stocks of large, publicly-owned companies based in the USA have traded during a standard stock market trading session. How many company's stocks does it track?
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2
Q2.
The island called Martha's Vineyard off the south of Cape Cod in New England is in which state of the USA?
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Q3.
What relation were Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole to each other?
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Q4.
In 1848, Mexico ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, officially ceding what to the USA?
D
Intellectual property rights to Mariachi music
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Q5.
In the USA and Canada, what does "MLS" signify?
A
An inning where no batter has hit the ball
B
Basketball's best player of the year award
C
A touchdown from an illegal move not seen by the referee
D
A professional soccer league
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Q6.
In the United Kingdom, the "Civil List" covers whose expenses?
Note: This question was updated in January 2024
A
The Archbishop of Canterbury
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Q7.
Where was the body of Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker dubbed "God's Banker" by the press, found by a passing postman on 18 June 1982?
A
Blackfriars Bridge, London
C
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
D
Place de la Concorde, Paris
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