Daily Quiz #3767
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Q1. Saratoga and Yorktown, USA, are the sites of the defeat of which armies?
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Q2. Tom Lehrer, an American singer-songwriter, whose work contained much black humor and risque lyrics, often parodying popular song forms, taught which subject from 1972 to 2001 at the University of California, Santa Cruz?
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Q3. The word for a territory under British rule that was not part of Great Britain itself was “colony” or “Crown colony”, until the British Nationality Act 1981 which called each one a “British-Dependent Territory”. What name are most of them known by since?
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Q4. What is the board game in which progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions?
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Q5. What word refers to a measure used in Scotland for liquids, chiefly beer, equalling 9 gallons?
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Q6. What is the astronomical body 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, discovered in 1788?
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Q7. What 1936 film sets out a future to 2036, predicting World War II from 23 December 1940, bombing raids on cities, a plague ("wandering sickness") in 1966, and a civilization based in Basra, Iraq, that renounced war and outlawed independent nation-states?
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