Daily Quiz #1472
General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 28 January 2013
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Q1.
Which 1942 film starring Tim Holt, Joseph Cotton, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello and Richard Bennett was adapted by Orson Welles from a novel by Booth Tarkington?
D
The Magnificent Ambersons
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Q2.
What is the Chinese name for the Yellow River?
Note: This question was updated in January 2022
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Q3.
What is a Thompson seedless?
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Q4.
What is the nickname of the Australian national rugby union team?
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Q5.
In central and northern Italy, the Guelphs, who supported the Pope, and Ghibellines, who supported the Holy Roman Emperor, became a metaphor for rivalry between individual families and cities. When was this?
B
17th and 18th centuries
C
10th and 11th centuries
D
12th and 13th centuries
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Q6.
On the Jewish calendar, what is Rosh Hashanah?
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Q7.
Tamerlane was a 14th-century conqueror of Western, South and Central Asia, founder of which empire?
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