Daily Quiz #4625
General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 16 September 2021
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Q1.
Bezique is what kind of game?
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Q2.
What island, 1 mile from Manhattan, which has been used by the army as an isolation centre for infectious diseases (such as typhoid and TB) and as a drug rehabilitation centre, is now deserted?
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Q3.
Who defected from Russia to the West at a Paris airport on 17 June 1961?
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Q4.
Which of these is an English fashion and portrait photographer, the winner of four Tony and two Academy Awards, whose costume design for the stage version of "My Fair Lady" (1956) led to his work on two film musicals, "Gigi" (1958) and "My Fair Lady" (1964)?
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Q5.
In what month or months does the annual sardine run happen?
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Q6.
By what name was the Castle of St Antoine that was built in Paris in 1369 as a fortress better known?
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Q7.
In a 1545 book Roger Ascham invented a word, "toxophily", meaning what?
C
Love of or expertise in archery
D
Collecting weapons of war
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