Tes Quiz: 10 November 2017

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10th November 2017, 12:00am
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Tes Quiz: 10 November 2017

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The questions

1. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in the marketplace of which French city?

2. Don Henley is the drummer in which band?

3. What goat-antelope gives its name to a type of cleaning cloth?

4. In film-making, what does the acronym CGI stand for?

5. Pleurisy is a condition affecting which organ of the human body?

6. From 2012, Richard Armitage played which character in The Hobbit series of films?

7. How many frames does a player have to win in the final of the World Snooker Championship to become champion?

8. What name is given to the method of painting with water-based paint directly onto wet plaster?

9. Carnaroli, Patna and Jasmine are all types of which foodstuff?

10. Who wrote the book Matilda, which was first published in 1988?

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The answers

1. Rouen

2. The Eagles

3. Chamois

4. Computer-Generated Imagery

5. Lungs

6. Thorin Oakenshield

7. 18

8. Fresco

9. Rice

10. Roald Dahl

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