Daily Quiz #1837
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 28 January 2014
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Q1.
Who played the joker in the 2008 film "The Dark Knight"?
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Q2.
Which monastic order, founded in 529 CE, was based at a monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy, until it was sacked in 580, when the monks fled to Rome and then spread throughout Europe?
Note: This question was updated in August 2022
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Q3.
What marked the 1895 game in Canada between the Halifax Stanleys and Dartmouth Jubilees hockey teams?
A
First national championship
B
First recorded game involving two all-black hockey teams
C
The game lasted three days, and was the last to be played with no time limit
D
It was the first hockey game to be played on ice
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Q4.
Which of these is a home video game console launched in 2006 by Nintendo that has a wireless controller for use as a handheld pointing device, and detects movement in three dimensions?
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Q5.
What term for a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours, a famous example odf which is Paul Gauguin's "The Yellow Christ" (1889), was coined by critic Edouard Dujardin in 1888?
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Q6.
Which river runs through the cities of Turin, Piacenza and Ferrara, and is connected to Milan through a network of channels?
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Q7.
Which of these is a dance?
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