Daily Quiz #1816
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 7 January 2014
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Q1.
According to Malory and Tennyson who was the son of Lancelot and Elaine, raised by nuns and knighted on his arrival at Camelot?
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Q2.
If someone is given hippocras what is being offered?
A
A Turkish delicacy of a special part of the brain of an unborn lamb
B
A Bahamian dwarf seahorse
C
A speculum similar to that believed to have been used by Hippocrates
D
A sweet highly spiced wine, often used as a digestive
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Q3.
In 2003, Kate Winslet married (and subsequently had two children with) whom?
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Q4.
Well known in France, who are Valérian and Laureline?
A
Department store owners
D
Science fiction comic heroes
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Q5.
What term was coined by publisher Henry Holt to refer to the direct influence of mind on a physical system that cannot be entirely accounted for by the mediation of any known physical energy, such as distorting or moving an object and influencing the output of a random number generator?
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Q6.
What equipment is used in a tug o war contest?
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Q7.
What is the world's smallest island nation, covering 21 square kilometres (8.1 square miles)?
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