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Daily Quiz #5027

Sunday's Quiz: From The Archives

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Q1. The "Hall of Mirrors" is in which building?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in May 2011
A
The White House
B
Palace of Versailles
C
The Louvre
D
Kensington Palace
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Q2. The fact that hot water freezes more quickly than cold water is known as what?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in May 2011
A
The China syndrome
B
The Mpemba effect
C
The Odessa file
D
Antiperistasis
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Q3. How did Nigerian man Umar Farouk Abdulmutallah make world news on 25 December 2009?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in August 2011 and updated in October 2022
A
Trying to blow up an aeroplane
B
Finding, by e-mail, someone to share his family fortune
C
Shooting down Santa's sleigh
D
Leading US police on their longest recorded car chase
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Q4. What term is used when a sports team gathers in a tight circle to strategise, motivate or celebrate?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in March 2012
A
Muddle
B
Cuddle
C
Huddle
D
Puddle
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Q5. What is the next in this series: Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried, ... ?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in March 2011
A
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersinger of Nuremberg)
B
Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)
C
Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods)
D
Die Feen (The Fairies)
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Q6. The "galop" from Offenbach's "Orphée aux Enfers" is generally associated with what?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in May 2010
A
British royal coronations
B
Can can
C
Hitler's most publicised Nuremberg rally
D
The funeral of Ronald Reagan
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Q7. Who printed his own translations of a French romance "The Recwyell of the Historyes of Troy" and "The Game and Plays of the Chesse" in Bruges in 1474?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in September 2010
A
Thomas Malory
B
Richard Burton
C
Charles Dickens
D
William Caxton
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