Wildcard Quiz #268
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 8 March 2014
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Q1.
What is the collective name for table items such as salt, mustard, vinegar and pepper?
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Q2.
What name is given to the area above the stage into which scenery can be raised?
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Q3.
What is the name of the large seat covered with red cloth, being the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of the UK Parliament?
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Q4.
The "Big Day Out" was what?
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A national day off work
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Q5.
What Hindu practice involves a widow throwing herself onto her husband's funeral pyre?
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Q6.
One of the 50 states of the USA does not use the system based on English, and subsequently USA, common law which the rest use, but bases its civil law on Spanish and which other law system?
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Q7.
In Christian chronology when is the 'Feast of Stephen'?
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