Daily Quiz #4861
General Knowledge Quiz for Tuesday, 10 May 2022
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Q1.
On All Saints' Eve, 31 October, in 1517 a treatise which is regarded as a primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation was popularly described as being nailed to the door of where in Germany?
A
The University of Wittenberg
B
Wartburg Castle, Eisenach
C
Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Wittenberg
D
Alte Kirche (Old Church), Dresden
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Q2.
The legend represented by the statue (now in the Vatican Museum) of a father and his twin sons being strangled by two great sea serpents, shows divine punishment for what according to Virgil?
A
The man had remarried, against a ban by local priests
C
Eating an offering made to the god, Zeus
D
The man had warned the Trojans against accepting the wooden horse left by the Greeks
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Q3.
A "basho" is a tournament for what sport?
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Q4.
For which song did Irish singer-songwriter Magda Davit (under a previous name) become first well-known?
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Q5.
The 328 metre high Sky Tower is in which city?
A
Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
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Q6.
What shape is usually ascribed to flying objects seen in the sky but believed to be not from the Earth?
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Q7.
In September 2010, The Beach Boys allegedly threatened a lawsuit due to a line in which song by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg?
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