Daily Quiz #2316
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 22 May 2015
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Q1.
A dress worn at President John F Kennedy's birthday party at Madison Square Garden on 19 May 1962 was sold at auction in 1999 for $1.26 million. Who wore it at the party?
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2
Q2.
What is 17 year old New Zealander Lydia Ko's ranking in women's world golf at the start of 2015?
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Q3.
What 2002 film starred Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Myers?
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Q4.
Which of these founders of major world religions was born earliest?
B
Jesus of Nazareth (Jesus Christ)
D
Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
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Q5.
What was the first general-purpose electronic computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems which, though designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the US Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, was first used in calculations for the hydrogen bomb?
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Q6.
The major geologic exposures in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, range in age from the 2 billion year old Vishnu Schist layers at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 230 million year old layer on the Rim which is called what?
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Q7.
What is Spartacus famous for doing?
A
Drinking the senate under the table
D
Leading a slave rebellion
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