Daily Quiz #4199
General Knowledge Quiz for Friday, 17 July 2020
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Q1.
Who was the main character in the Who's rock opera "Tommy", the boy traumatised by the murder of his mother's lover?
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2
Q2.
Which famous landmark in Los Angeles, California, was created as an advertisement in 1923?
B
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
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3
Q3.
The phrase "bigger bang for the buck", first heard in the USA in 1954, was used to describe what?
A
Elvis Presley's performances
C
The neutron bomb (compared to the atom and hydrogen bombs)
D
Policy to use nuclear weapons (not a large regular army) to threaten the USSR
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Q4.
In the 1979 film "Alien" which of these actors plays a character that has an alien burst out of his body?
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Q5.
What was the immediate effect of a decision of the US Supreme Court in 1972 known as Furman v. Georgia?
A
Unmarried people had the right to possess contraception on the same basis as married couples
B
The then-classified Pentagon Papers could be published without government censorship or punishment
C
Women could choose an abortion without excessive government restriction
D
A moratorium on capital punishment throughout the US
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Q6.
What is the calculation "the square root of 1.5 times the height in feet = the answer in miles" used for?
B
Land surveying using trig stations
D
Measuring the distance to the horizon
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Q7.
Where were the 1976 Winter Olympics held?
C
Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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