Daily Quiz #1783
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 5 December 2013
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Q1.
What is the largest dam in the USA, by measure of hydroelectric power capacity?
Note: This question was updated in April 2019
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Q2.
Who played the title role in the 1998 film "Blade"?
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3
Q3.
Which of these is a basic blend of ground spices common in Indian and other South Asian cuisines?
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Q4.
In 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in the USA for spying for which country?
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Q5.
Why were the Winter Olympic Games at Lillehammer in 1994 held only 2 years after the previous ones, at Albertsville?
A
The Lillehammer venues were to be torn down in 1995
B
Error by the International Olympic Commission
C
To change the timing, to alternate with the Summer Olympics
D
Impending war in the Middle East
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Q6.
Who wrote the music for the 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance patter song "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"?
B
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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Q7.
What is an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight, distorted body image and an obsessive fear of gaining weight which has an incidence of between 8 and 13 cases per 100,000 persons per year, and largely affects young adolescent women?
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