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Daily Quiz #863

General Knowledge Quiz for Monday, 30 May 2011

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Q1. The "Hall of Mirrors" is in which building?

A
The White House
B
Palace of Versailles
C
The Louvre
D
Kensington Palace
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Q2. Which of these was not one of the "Three Fates" (or "Parcae") in Roman mythology?

A
Morta
B
Nona
C
Decima
D
Portia
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Q3. Artists Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Frederic Edwin Church, Jane Frank and Thomas Cole painted in what style or genre?

A
Art Deco
B
Still life
C
Pointillism
D
Landscape
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Q4. What is another name for the alligator pear?

A
Avocado
B
Aubergine
C
Eggplant
D
Courgette
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Q5. What sport was part of the Olympic Games programme between 1896 and 1924, and returned as a full medal sport at the 1988 Olympics?

A
Tennis
B
Lawn bowls
C
Curling
D
Golf
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Q6. Which of these was a rocket physicist and astronautics engineer who was involved in the development of rocket technology in Germany during World War II?

Note: This question was updated in January 2021
A
Bertolt Brecht
B
J. Robert Oppenheimer
C
Albert Speer
D
Wernher von Braun
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Q7. John Boyd Dunlop was associated with the development of what item?

A
Telephone
B
Cuckoo clock
C
Phonograph
D
Pneumatic tyre
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