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Quick
Quiz
A daily not-too-difficult quiz.
Our
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QUICK QUIZ is challenging, but not too erudite. It is aimed at a reader with
a good general knowledge who should find satisfaction in correctly answering
more than half the questions in each daily quiz. Consider running QUICK QUIZ
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this sample week of Quick Quiz:
Monday
1. Do dolphins have teeth?
2. Who is the god of war in Roman mythology?
3. In maths, what is meant by three dots in a triangular formation?
4. From which musical is the song "I Know Him So Well"?
5. Which Russian ate poisoned cakes and was shot twice but died only after
being tied up and thrown in a river?
6. Tom Jones sang for which Bond film?
7. Which king was reigning in Britain at the start of the First World War?
8. Who was the Moor of Venice in Shakespeare's play?
9. Who did Jimmy Carter succeed as president of the USA?
10. What cocktail is made from vodka, Galliano and orange juice?
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Tuesday
1. Which lake is England's Largest?
2. What is the term
for a painting done on a freshly plastered wall?
3. Which islands off South America did Darwin visit
to get evidence in support of his theories of natural selection?
4. What type of music is produced by French-speaking inhabitants of Louisiana?
5. What is tattooed on Popeye's arm?
6. Which American virologist developed the first successful antipolio vaccine?
7. Where was the Titanic launched?
8. Which female member of Abba was not born in Sweden, Anni-Frid or Agnetha?
9. What is "Tiger" Woods' first name?
10. Who is the neurotic heroine of Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name?
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Wednesday
1. What did Wilhelm Roentgen discover in 1895?
2. In which film did Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway play a pair of notorious
outlaws?
3. Who were the three musketeers in the novel by Alexandre Dumas?
4. Signalling that a ship is about to sail, what is a blue flag with a white
square in the centre called?
5. Who invented the electrical generator and the transformer?
6. Which tiny European landlocked state is a grand duchy?
7. Who wrote the play A Streetcar Named Desire?
8. Ukrainian Sergei Bubka broke the world record 35 times in which event?
9. Sir Winston Churchill was born at which palace?
10. A spider’s perseverance is said to have inspired which king to continue
his struggle against occupiers?
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Thursday
1. Who got the part of Dirty Harry, injured his hand and was replaced by Clint
Eastwood?
2. Which famous puppet made his first appearance in a book of 1883?
3. On which radio programme did we meet Major Bloodnok and Henry Crun?
4. What colour is malachite?
5. The Naked Civil Servant is a 1975 TV drama about the life of which
man?
6. Whose aircraft was named Spirit of St Louis?
7. Who was the mother of the first Queen Elizabeth?
8. Where were the 1952 summer Olympic Games held?
9. Who sang about Bette Davis Eyes in 1981?
10. In which two countries is Lake Geneva?
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Friday
1. Which couple, working in France, pioneered research into radioactivity?
2. What is television’s equivalent of the Oscar?
3. In which century did Nostradamus live?
4. Which Briton won the Monaco Grand Prix five times in seven years from 1963
to 1969?
5. Which island is at the entrance of the Bay of Naples?
6. By which units is the fineness of yarns measured?
7. What was the first name of Marks of Marks & Spencer?
8. What is the larynx more commonly called?
9. On which sea is the Gaza Strip?
10. In which classic Victorian novel does an inn called the Admiral Benbow
feature?
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Saturday
1. What is the loose fold of skin hanging under a dog’s throat called?
2. Whose wax and feather wings fell off when he flew too close to the sun?
3. What was the artist Picasso’s first name?
4. What is the important oath associated with doctors?
5. Which musical was derived from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion?
6. The film Gone with the Wind was based on a novel by which author?
7. Mount Etna, the highest volcano in Europe, is located on which island?
8. How many innings are there normally in a game of baseball?
9. What would you do with a dhoti - eat it, wear it or smoke it?
10. Where in Coleridge’s Kubla Khan was there was a “stately
pleasure-dome”?
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