Daily Quiz #953
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 28 August 2011
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Q1.
What are raced in the Melbourne Cup?
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2
Q2.
The Rocky Mountains stretch over 3,000 miles from New Mexico to where?
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3
Q3.
What are the Doukhobors, which originated in Russia in the 18th century?
C
Travelling actors and singers
D
A company of stone masons
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Q4.
Which of these is a Mexican painter, many of whose works are self-portraits, who used vibrant colours in a style influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico with European influences including Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism?
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Q5.
Which of these is a British entrepreneur and inventor of the slim-line electronic pocket calculator in 1972 and the ZX Spectrum series of computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s?
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Q6.
The existence of what was conjectured by Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold in 1995 and proven in 2006 by Hungarian scientists Gábor Domokos and Péter Várkonyi?
A
An element with atomic number 117
C
Gömböc, a type of convex 3 dimensional body
D
An underwater trench off the East coast of Africa
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Q7.
What was the name given to actions by Timothy McVeigh on 19 April 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
B
The Oklahoma City bombing
C
The Philadelphia Sniper
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