Daily Quiz #1526
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 23 March 2013
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Q1.
The sinking, approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, of which steamship on 12 November 1928, with a loss of over 100 lives, particularly of women and children after it was abandoned, had a major impact on the second International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in 1929?
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Q2.
According to the nursery rhyme, whose lamb followed her to school?
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Q3.
Britain's largest suspension bridge crosses which river?
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Q4.
What name is given to a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another animal, as though the observer were performing the action?
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Q5.
The highly popular sport of skydiving started with what?
B
Successful parachute jumps from a hot-air balloon in 1797
C
Drops of Allied troops into enemy territory in WW II
D
Methods of descent from helicopters
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Q6.
Who wrote "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?
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Q7.
Which film is the story of Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) who starts with well meaning ambition to enter politics, is corrupted by power on his way to becoming a US state governor, and is assassinated?
C
Mr Deeds Goes To Washington
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