Daily Quiz #1747
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 30 October 2013
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Q1.
The American TV serial "Twin Peaks" was set in what state of the USA?
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Q2.
What colour is the medal presented for winning an event at the Olympic Games from 1904 onwards?
Note: This question was updated in September 2015
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Q3.
What is the highest mountain in Queensland, Australia (1622 metres), named in 1873 after a British colonial administrator who later became president of the Royal Geographical Society?
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Q5.
Who won the 2010 Nobel prize for chemistry for their work in the 1960s & 1970s to find ways to bond carbon atoms (such as palladium-catalysed cross coupling)?
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James D. Watson, Francis Crick & Maurice Wilkins
B
Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ron Wood
C
Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi & Akira Suzuki
D
Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant & John Bonham
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Q6.
The "Missouri Compromise" allowed which state to join the USA in 1820 to balance the admission of Missouri?
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Q7.
Which of these is a book by Jacqueline Susann?
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