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Daily Quiz #5944

Sunday's Quiz: From The Archives

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Q1. The Iguazu Falls are on the border of which two countries?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in December 2012
A
China & Korea
B
Syria & Jordan
C
Thailand & Cambodia
D
Brazil & Argentina
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Q2. One couple won the World Figure Skating Championships for Ice Dancing for four successive years 1981-1984. Who were they?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in May 2013
A
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
B
Dolly Parton and Kris Kristofferson
C
Nancy Kerrigan and Oksana Baiul
D
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant
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Q3. An "aide memoire" to know the first numbers of the constant pi can be obtained by counting the letters in each word of which of these?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in January 2012 and updated in February 2023
A
"Good day sunshine. We all shine on. Revolution number nine."
B
"This is not fun. It is silly. It annoys me."
C
"To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler."
D
"May I have a large container of coffee?" "Thank you"?
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Q4. Why did John Malkovich, Steven Spielberg, Kevin Bacon, Larry King, Mort Zuckerman, Senator Frank Lautenberg and co-owner of the NY Mets, Saul Katz, all form part of the same news item in 2009?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in November 2009
A
They were victims of Bernard Madoff's swindles
B
They attended the bedside of Natasha Richardson
C
They invested in the film "Tintin", to be produced by Peter Jackson
D
They were passengers in a plane that crashed onto the Hudson River, New York
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Q5. Who founded the London Symphony Orchestra Summer Pops in 1985 and served as Pops Musical Director of the San Francisco Symphony and Rochester (NY) Philharmonic in the USA?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in August 2011
A
Acker Bilk
B
Ronnie Scott
C
John Dankworth
D
Benjamin Britten
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Q6. In 1632 the Puritan William Prynne published "Histriomastix", over a thousand pages, showing that ".. (what) ..." were unlawful, incentives to immorality, and condemned by the scriptures, the fathers, modern Christian writers, and the wisest of the heathen philosophers. What were the things?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in November 2011
A
Arranged marriages
B
Sculptures
C
Stage plays
D
Charging interest on loans
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Q7. Janet Reger is known as a designer of what?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in March 2011
A
Handbags
B
Shoes
C
Hats
D
Underwear
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