Daily Quiz #1222
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 23 May 2012
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1
Which city, originally a monastic settlement founded by Saint Finbarr in the 6th century, built on the River Lee, became a major point of Irish emigration to North America after the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s?
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2
What did Twitter establish as the maximum number of characters (including spaces) that can be used in a "tweet"?
Note: This question was updated in July 2020
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3
Who became chairman of the Watford Football Club for the second time in 1997?
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4
James Chadwick discovered which sub-atomic particles in 1932?
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5
On 2 November 2010, the oil painting "Nude Sitting on a Divan" sold for $68.9 million, a record for an artwork by which artist?
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6
Jeeves is butler to which fictional character created by P G Wodehouse?
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7
What part of New York City is named for Catherine of Braganza?
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