Daily Quiz #2308
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 14 May 2015
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1
Which town on the Isle of Wight has hosted an annual Regatta since 1851?
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2
What measure is used to measure the warmth of a duvet?
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3
Jimmy Somerville fronted which 1980s band?
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4
The Mocha coffee bean is named after what?
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5
What is or are the machair?
A
A commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France
B
An indigenous tribe in south-west Ecuador
C
Calcareous, fertile, dune grasslands unique to northern Scotland and Ireland
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6
Which play’s characters comprise two married couples called Honey and Nick, and Martha and George?
C
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
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7
Why was the Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799 and a key to deciphering writing from ancient Egypt, so called?
A
It was given as a present to the Queen of Spain
B
It was discovered by Rosetta Rosetti
C
The stone is in the shape of a rose
D
It was discovered at Rosetta, a town in Egypt
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