Daily Quiz #1670
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 14 August 2013
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1
Stainless steel is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5 to 11% content by mass of what element?
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2
The USA established marginal income tax rates of 77% in 1916 to fund the war effort in World War I. What were they reduced to by 1929, shortly before the Wall Street crash?
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3
Olympic weightlifters are permitted, in addition to a close-fitting one-piece leotard, to wear what?
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4
What name is given to a brightly coloured and very wide tie?
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5
Iran and the United Arab Emirates together with Musandam, an exclave of Oman, are on either side of which stretch of water?
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6
The plot of the 1959 film "Some Like It Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, is triggered by what event?
A
The end of World War II
B
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
C
The Saint Valentine's Day massacre
D
Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show
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7
Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of the Korean War?
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