Daily Quiz #1786
General Knowledge Quiz for Sunday, 8 December 2013
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Q1.
The faces of which of these shapes are not triangles?
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Q2.
Who was the first President of Czechoslovakia?
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Q3.
At the Battle of Bannockburn, an army led by Robert the Bruce defeated troops led by whom?
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Q4.
Which of these is a traditional wooden sailing boat rigged with 1 or 2 lateen sails that is used in protected waters of the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean, and in Egypt, Sudan, and Iraq?
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Q5.
How does the game of Upwords differ from Scrabble?
A
Letter tiles can be stacked on top of others
B
All words, apart from the first, have to be formed from previous words
C
The board has more and more high scoring squares
D
All words formed have to be at least three letters long
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Q6.
The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, which became a popular name for the dividing line between the slave and free states, is the boundary between which two states of the USA?
Note: This question was updated in December 2016
B
Pennsylvania and Maryland
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Q7.
Which 1944 musical film, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starred Judy Garland, Mary Astor, Leon Ames, Marjorie Main and Margaret O'Brien who were going to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904?
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