Wildcard Quiz #452
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 16 September 2017
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1
Q1.
Shepherd's pie has what on top?
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2
Q2.
When was the first iPhone sold?
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3
A
A romanisation system for Mandarin Chinese
B
An 1864 proposal for the Reconstruction of the South by two Radical Republicans
C
A park near Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA
D
Civil rights demonstrations in 1959 and 1963 to desegregate beaches in the Mississippi Gulf
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4
Q4.
What are shinai made of?
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5
Q5.
To foil something, in the sense of stopping or frustrating it, comes from an old French word and in turn from a Latin word denoting what activity?
B
Fulling, i.e. tramping to scour and thicken woollen cloth
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6
Q6.
What does "simple" mean?
D
Mentally disabled from birth
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7
Q7.
What are, or were, Ceres and Faxe?
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