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TIME OUT: Quiz of the Day.

1. A covey is a group name for which birds?

2. Which English painter had the first names Joseph Mallord William?

3. Which entertainer's autobiography was entitled Sing As We Go?

4. What was ended by the 21st Amendment of the US Constitution?

5. In which movie starring Matt Damon and Robin Williams does a therapist try to help an angry Boston youth?

6. Who succeeded Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector of England?

7. What colour are Venetian gondolas painted?

8. What are close encounters of the second kind?

9. In a preface to which book does Charles Dickens write: "I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an idea."?

10. What innovation in golf was marketed as the 'Perfectum' in 1890?

ANSWERS: 1 Partridge or quail; 2 Turner; 3 Gracie Fields; 4 Prohibition; 5 Good Will Hunting; 6 His son, Richard; 7 Black; 8 An observation of a UFO and its physical effects; 9 A Christmas Carol; 10 The tee.

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Matt Damon - see Question 5
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Title Annotation:Features
Publication:The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Date:Oct 8, 2008
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