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Sunday's Quiz: From The Archives

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Q1. Known as "snap apple", "bobbing for apples" and "dooking" what does this game ask its participants to do?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in March 2013
A
Curtsey to one another while covering as many apples as possible
B
Pluck apples or almonds out of burning brandy and eat them
C
Swing apples on a string against one another
D
Capture apples either floating in water or hanging from a string
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Q2. Which British stage director won an Oscar for his feature-film directing debut, which starred Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, and Thora Birch?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in July 2010
A
Sam Mendes
B
John Madden
C
Terrence Malick
D
Peter Weir
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Q3. In March 1918, the capital of Russia was moved to where?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in June 2010 and updated in June 2023
A
St Petersburg
B
Moscow
C
Stalingrad
D
Minsk
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Q4. Which of these airports serves Chicago?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in June 2009
A
Bob Hope
B
Kennedy
C
O'Hare
D
Roosevelt
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Q5. In various languages, they are gatitos, gatinhos, gattini, chatons and katzchen. What are they in English?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in April 2011
A
Revolvers
B
Cocktails
C
Doors
D
Kittens
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Q6. Tianhe-1A, the supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, China which in October 2010 became the world's fastest supercomputer, uses what operating system?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in December 2012
A
Linux
B
Windows XP
C
Unix
D
Mac OS X
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Q7. A film released in 1971, starring David Hemmings and Michael Kitchen, based on a 1958 radio play by Giles Cooper, was called "Unman, Wittering and …" who?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in May 2009
A
Zulu
B
Zigo
C
Xavier
D
Youngman
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