Daily Quiz #3849
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 2 August 2019
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1
What machine devised to move people was first demonstrated in Paris in 1900?
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2
In June 2009, who was found dead in his room at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel in Bangkok, where he had gone to begin work on his role in the film "Stretch"?
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3
The viola is tuned one fifth below the violin and therefore they have three strings tuned in common: G, D, and which other?
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4
Which (prolific) author shaped books around characters called, among other things, Fauntleroy, Sara, Mary, Dickon and Colin?
B
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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5
Mexico is on what continent?
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6
What is the name of a game played with rope rings that are caught and thrown by the players on a court similar to a tennis court?
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7
Which US state was the first to secede from the Union, in 1860, leading to the American Civil War?
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