Daily Quiz #1523
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 20 March 2013
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Q1.
Archimedes is the first person recorded to have designed and built an elevator, in about 236 BC. Who is credited with introducing the safety elevator, which did not fall if the cable broke?
A
Elisha Otis (1811-1861)
B
Alfred Einstein (1879-1955)
C
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859)
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Q2.
What is a lemniscate?
Note: This question was updated in February 2021
C
The mathematical symbol for infinity
D
A pair of green-coloured roller blades
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Q3.
In a casino, what is the name of the box that holds multiple decks of playing cards?
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Q4.
How many nouns are in the sentence "My mother and father visited my sister in Wellington"?
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Q5.
What is the name for a raised block of the earth's crust thrown up between two faults?
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Q6.
What is the early English name for the road that went from London through Lincoln and York to Hadrian's Wall?
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Q7.
What is the occupation of the title character in "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce?
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