Daily Quiz #49
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Q1. The Three Gorges Dam is in which country?
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Q2. What is the next in the series: Calgary, Canada; Albertville, France; Lillehammer, Norway; Nagano, Japan?
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Q3. What is the next number in the series 1, 8, 27, 64, 125?
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Q4. Why was Eric Fishl's sculpture "Tumbling Woman", a memorial to those who jumped from the World Trade Centre on 11 Sept 2001, removed from the Rockefeller Centre in New York City?
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Q5. Which building was attacked at the start of the French Revolution on 14 July 1789 because it was symbolic of injustice?
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Q6. In England, in the first half of the twentieth century, a "vesta" was a common term for a type of what?
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Q7. Who was the Anglo-Irish scientist who, in the 17th century, discovered that "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure"?
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