62 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ
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What does a spectrometer measure?
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Which Venetian painter, many of whose works hang in the nearby Scuola di San Giorgio degli
Schiavoni, gave his name to a meat dish, invented in Harry’s Bar in Venice?
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Cousin Jerez, played by Peter Ellis, was the villain in which spoof soap?
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In 2014, it was announced that Vatican church has begun the beatification process for which architect, a very conservative and devote Catholic, who was given to extravagant fasting, and who gave all his worldly goods to the church?
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Which fashion designer financed Diaghelev’s "Ballet Russe", and subsidised both the composer Igor Stravinsky, and the film maker Jean Cocteau?
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Kieselguhr is fossilised plankton. What is it used for?
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Which American country singer had hits with "Early Morning Rain", "Abilene" and "She's A
Little Bit Country"?
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Bemidbar, meaning 'in the wilderness', is the Hebrew name for the 34th weekly Torah portion which consists of the first 4 chapters of which book of the Old Testament?
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What name is given to the sweet chocolate spread which contains about 30% of hazelnut paste, which was invented in Turin during Napoleon's regency (1796-1814)? The
Mediterranean was under a blockade by the British and so, a chocolatier from Turin, Michele
Prochet, extended the little chocolate he had, by mixing it with hazelnuts.
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What is the name for a representation of the three main Hindu Gods, Brahma, the creator,
Vishnu, the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer, as one composite figure?
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Who resigned as Prime Minister, after the Tories split over tariff reform in 1905?
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What name is given to a sign, such as the dollar sign, that represents a word?
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What was the name of the device used by German U-Boats, enabling them to run on diesel, and recharge their batteries while remaining submerged ?
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Who is generally regarded as the chief god of the Irish pantheon, and possessed a bottomless cauldron, capable of feeding an army?
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What does the concept of “chunking” refer to, in a theory proposed by the American Professor of Psychology, George A Miller in a famous 1956 paper called "The Magical Number Seven,
Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information"?
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In Roman society, what phrase was used for men who were not patricians, but who attained a high political office, such as Cicero?
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With only 56 inhabitants, which British overseas territory is, in terms of population, the world's smallest jurisdiction?

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Which branch of mathematics, is most explicitly concerned with the limit of a sequence or function?
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Which waxy white or transparent solid, with a strong aromatic odour, is found in the wood of a large evergreen tree in Asia, and has the chemical formula C10 H16 O?
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Which American evolutionary biologist and popular science writer, wrote about the Burgess
Shale fauna in his book "Wonderful Life"?
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WAVE LENGTHS OF RADIANT ENERGY, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF
SUBSTANCES.
VITTORE CARPACCIO (1460's-1520's)
ACORN ANTIQUES
THE CATALAN ARCHITECT, ANTONIO GAUDI
COCO CHANEL
POLISHING, OR IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DYNAMITE. IT CONSISTS OF
SILICEOUS DIATOM REMAINS AND IS USED AS A FILTERING MATERIAL
GEORGE HAMILTON IV WHO DIED IN 2014
NUMBERS - IT GIVES DETAILS OF THE CENSUS AND PRIESTLY DUTIES
GIANDUJA, WHICH TAKES ITS NAME FROM A CARNIVAL AND MARIONETTE
CHARACTER ,WHO REPRESENTED THE PIEDMONT REGION FROM WHERE THE
HAZELNUTS CAME
THE TRIMURTI
ARTHUR BALFOUR
A LOGOGRAM
THE SCHNORKEL
THE DAGDA
MEMORY
NOVUS HOMO
THE PITCAIRN ISLANDS
ANALYSIS
CAMPHOR

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STEPHEN JAY GOULD (1941-2002)