Daily Quiz #1478
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 3 February 2013
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1
St James's Palace is in what street in London?
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2
Charles Lindbergh's first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 was between which two cities?
A
Montpellier, Vermont and Birmingham, England
D
New York and Paris, France
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3
Who is acknowledged as the founder of Singapore as a trading post and European settlement in 1819?
B
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
C
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
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4
Johnny Weissmuller, the star of 12 "Tarzan" films between 1932 and 1948, won 5 Olympic gold medals in the 1920s in what sport?
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5
In 19th century Britain, which of these was a word for "coward"?
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6
What was the first satellite put into orbit by the USA?
Note: This question was updated in March 2022
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7
Which BBC TV programme of 4 series featured Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, with Chris Langham in the first series?
A
Not the Nine O'Clock News
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