Daily Quiz #1790
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 12 December 2013
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Q1.
In Greek mythology, what was left in Pandora's box after the evils, ills, diseases, and burdensome labour had escaped?
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Q2.
A film released in 2000 starring Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson tells the life story of which painter?
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Q3.
What name is given to a railway in which a cable attached to a pair of vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other?
Note: This question was updated in June 2022
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Q4.
Which of these people was, according to several early sources, the second Pope?
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Q5.
Ronnie Scott's club in London is the venue for what kind of music?
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Q6.
What is the name for the largest of the living primates, that are ground-dwelling and predominantly herbivorous, inhabiting the forests of central Africa?
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Q7.
Shove ha'penny has been a game popular in pubs and with kings. What is a ha'penny?
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What a dime used to be called
C
A UK coin no longer in circulation
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