Wildcard Quiz #339
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 18 July 2015
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Q1.
What is the name given to a pointless, long drawn out story?
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Q2.
Haricot beans are commonly used in what common canned product?
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Q3.
The international multi-million dollar prizes set up in 2012 to recognise important recent achievements by scientists in (by 2015) Mathematics, Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics are known as what?
A
The Breakthrough Prizes
D
The Queen Elizabeth Prize
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Q4.
How did the Roman Calendar differ from the Julian and subsequent Gregorian calendars?
A
It had a leap month rather than a leap day
B
It did not include catchups such as leap years
C
It used a week of eight days instead of seven
D
Its year was 360 days long
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Q5.
A columbarium was originally a home for doves, but what was also, and is now most likely to be, found there?
B
Urns holding a deceased's cremated remains
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Q6.
Which of these is not one of meanings of the word "scotch"?
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Q7.
The Columbia Pictures logo in 1924 was a female figure, as now, but with a shield in her left hand and what in her right hand?
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