Daily Quiz #3206
General Knowledge Quiz for Saturday, 28 October 2017
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Q1.
What is the main ingredient, apart from icing sugar, in Royal icing?
B
Softly beaten egg white
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2
Q2.
Haile Selassie was the ruler of which country?
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3
Q3.
Who created the English aviator "Biggles"?
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Q4.
The character, Hetty, in the US TV series "NCIS: Los Angeles" is shown as having a Masters degree from the Sorbonne in what?
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Q5.
Which team won the Hockey World Cup the most times between 2000 and 2010?
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Q6.
A camp was built in 1779 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, to accommodate around 4,200 prisoners; who were the people?
A
Rappahannock, Wicocomico and Shawnee native Americans
B
British and German prisoners of war, and their women and children
C
Felons displaced from prisons destroyed in the War of Independence
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Q7.
What was the principle laid down in Adam Smith's "Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" published in 1776?
A
Business and trade should be controlled by government intervention
B
The world's population is increasing faster than its ability to produce food
C
Business and trade should not be hampered by government intervention
D
Industrialisation is the only means to economic prosperity
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