Daily Quiz #596
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Q1. Which of these is the word for a coin collector?
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Q2. A cubit, an ancient unit of measurement, was derived from what?
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Q3. What military strategy involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while passing through an area, first used by the Scythians against King Darius the Great of Persia around 500 BCE, and known for its use by both sides when Germany attacked and then retreated from the USSR in World War II?
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Q4. The state of Indiana borders which Great Lake?
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Q5. Which automobile racing award was first given in 1900 in France and awarded annually until 1905?
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Q6. Which character in a play has a soliloquy that begins "To be or not to be, that is the question."?
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Q7. Who, after being lured to the Moika Palace on 16 December 1916, was poisoned with cyanide, shot 4 times, beaten and drowned in the Neva River (where he had tried to claw his way from under the ice) but was reported to sit up on his burning funeral pyre?
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