Daily Quiz #1069
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 22 December 2011
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Q1.
What natural ice 1,212.5 metre (3,978 ft) long racing sled run in the Swiss town of St. Moritz, based on a river, was built in 1884?
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Q2.
Who was the first female artist to have a #1 album in the USA and the UK simultaneously?
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Q3.
Which of these is a cave complex near the town of Santillana del Mar, 30 km west of Santander, Spain, which is famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands?
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Q4.
The Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye is famous for a festival featuring what?
Note: This question was updated in September 2023
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Q5.
Which of these pieces of music features in the opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet?
A
The March of the Toreadors
B
The Waltz of the Flowers
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Q6.
Where is the Sea of William Henry Smyth?
C
Off the coast of Queensland, Australia
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Q7.
Captain James Cook encountered which people on his first voyage to New Zealand?
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