Daily Quiz #2680
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 20 May 2016
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1
Which team was the runner-up at the 3rd American Football World Cup in Kawasaki, Japan, in 2007?
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2
Who sang with UB40 on their hit record "I Got You Babe"?
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3
Where are the Sugarloaf Mountain, the Morro da Babilônia, the Morro da Urca, and Mount Corcovado (with its famous giant religious statue)?
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4
Doves Type created in the late 19th century by, and exclusively for, Doves Press based on a 1470s typeface and used to print special works, now highly prized, was resurrected in 2015 after 100 years by Robert Green; why was it not used in the meantime?
A
The man who commissioned the type threw the matrices into the River Thames
B
Doves Press was destroyed by bombing in WW I
C
When the Doves Press partnership was dissolved the partners put a 100 year stop on use of the type
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5
An alembic in a chemist's or alchemist's laboratory is likely to be used to do what?
A
Guard the eyes from flame or fumes
C
Distil liquid chemicals
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6
Antoni Gaudi is responsible for the architecture of which building which is still being constructed to his original plans and drawings, 90 years after his death?
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7
During the Cold War, what Eastern European alliance was the equivalent of NATO?
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