Daily Quiz #1181
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 12 April 2012
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Q1.
What word's original meaning was "to remove or destroy every tenth one"?
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Q2.
Which New York nightclub manager, who appeared on a cover of the New York Post holding a picture of her fiancé who was killed in the September 11 attacks, was alleged by The National Enquirer in 2009 to have had an affair with Tiger Woods?
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Q3.
On 10 May 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame and looted Fort Ticonderoga, a small British garrison, and took away cannons and other armaments to fortify which city that was under siege?
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Q4.
What was the occupation of Jules Leotard who popularised one-piece gymwear in the 19th century?
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Q5.
What is measured using the Rankine scale?
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Q6.
How many members are there in the French lower house, the National Assembly?
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Q7.
Which of these was a Swiss painter of German nationality whose style was influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, who taught at the German Bauhaus school of art and architecture?
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