Daily Quiz #1686
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 30 August 2013
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Q1.
In 1906, Lee de Forest developed a "triode" to amplify and convert alternating current to direct current, which played a major role in the development of which invention?
C
The manufacture of horses' bridles
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Q2.
Roughly where in the USA is the area called Tornado Alley?
B
North-South: Washington to California
C
North-South: Dakota through Kansas and Oklahoma to Texas
D
East-West: California to Florida
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Q3.
"A little dab'll do ya, Use more, only if you dare, But watch out, The gals will all pursue ya,-- They'll love to put their fingers through your hair" was a jingle for what product that was first marketed in the 1920s?
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Q4.
Billy Bowden is an official in what sport?
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Q5.
Which singer invested in the Ampex company in 1947 (which developed North America's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder), was the first to pre-record his radio shows and to master his commercial recordings on magnetic tape?
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Q6.
Which of these is the earliest opera or stage musical composition performed?
Note: This question was updated in June 2022
A
Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell
B
Venus and Adonis by John Blow
C
Orpheus and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald von Gluck
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Q7.
In 1858 Rowland Macy established a new store named "R. H. Macy & Company", where it stayed on the same site for nearly forty years, in which city?
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