TES Quiz: 16 September 2016

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16th September 2016, 12:00am
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TES Quiz: 16 September 2016

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1. Other than Genoa, which other Seria A football team plays in Genoa?

2. Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl was formerly the drummer in Scream and which other band?

3. Which character did Gene Wilder play in the 1974 film Blazing Saddles?

4. Which country declared independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830?

5. Who wrote the Artemis Fowl series of novels?

6. What is the sum of the number of yards in a furlong plus one gross plus the number of centilitres in a standard bottle of wine?

7. Alaska, Tom Thumb and Sugar Snap are all varieties of which vegetable?

8. Which Italian scientist is said to have dropped two spheres of different masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in order to demonstrate that their time of descent was independent of their mass?

9. How many colours are there on the Google logo?

10. In texting media, what does the acronym SMS stand for?

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