Daily Quiz #1111
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 2 February 2012
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1
A
A type of bet on a horse race
C
One of 3 terms in a school year
D
An epidemic killing more than 3,000 people
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2
According to legend, what was the Pied Piper asked to drive out of Hamelin?
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3
Where is the world's most populous metropolitan area?
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4
Which of these was a popular comedy duo in the 1970s and '80s?
Note: This question was updated in June 2020
A
Dean Martin and Jerry Built
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5
What is the Prix Goncourt awarded for?
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6
The narrative poem "The Gypsies" (1824) by Alexander Pushkin influenced a novella by Prosper Mérimée (1845), which was the basis for a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy for which opera that premiered at the Opéra-Comique of Paris in 1875?
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7
Which planet has 5 rings that are named for the astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle, Urbain Le Verrier, William Lassell, François Arago and John Couch Adams?
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