Daily Quiz #3505
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 23 August 2018
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Q1.
In Scots, to flyte (or flite) is to what?
A
Clip the wings of domestic fowls
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2
Q2.
The Brouwer Route for trade, established after explorations in 1610, called for travel by what means?
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3
Q3.
Who wrote the tale "The Princess and the Pea"?
B
Hans Christian Andersen
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4
Q4.
Which poisonous compound can be a gas, solid or liquid, the most infamous application of which was use by the Nazi regime in Germany for mass murder in some gas chambers during the Holocaust?
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5
Q5.
Romansch is an official language of which country?
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Q6.
First held in 1603, a contest takes place annually in Musselburgh, Scotland, in what sport?
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Q7.
Which opera shocked audiences at its première due to a combination of a biblical theme, the erotic and the murderous, especially "The Dance of the Seven Veils" and the heroine making necrophiliac love?
A
"Salome" by Richard Strauss
B
"Hansel and Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck
C
"La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi
D
"Les Dialogues des Carmelites" by Poulenc
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