Daily Quiz #2055
General Knowledge Quiz for Wednesday, 3 September 2014
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1
Which mountain chain runs along the border between France and Spain?
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2
What miners' oil lamp, invented in 1815, had a wire cylinder to enclose the flame, preventing the explosion of coal-gas?
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3
Olympe de Gouges, a French playwright and political activist, is today best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men. How did she die?
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4
In 2011 the Classic Brit Awards named who as "Artist of the Decade"?
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5
Where in the UK is the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, a statue of James Cook as a boy by Nicholas Dimbleby, and a granite obelisk that marks the original site of the Cook family home?
B
Great Ayton, North Yorkshire
D
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
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6
In card games, what is the name for a proposal by a player to take no tricks?
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7
What is the meaning of the Spanish word "mañana"?
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