Daily Quiz 29
A steel-arch bridge across Port Jackson and a nearby opera house are landmarks of which city?
Members of the Khalsa order follow a command never to cut their hair as part of which religion?
In a Wilkie Collins novel, Colonel Herncastle steals which title gem from the head of a Hindu idol?
Robert Edwards won a Nobel Prize for developing which technique, leading to the 1978 birth of Louise Brown?
The international airport at Prestwick on the Firth of Clyde serves which larger Scottish city to its northeast?
Renovated over millennia, the royal villa of which ancient capital is a landmark of the Minoan civilization?
A person who offers stern or blunt advice is referred to by which two-word phrase invoking a nationality and a relative?
Because of political pressure, which place uses the "National Banner Song" in place of its anthem at international events?
The influential Bauhaus design school was founded in which country?
"Less Than Zero," a story of listless rich kids in 1980s Los Angeles, was written by whom?
Passing away on June 8, 1876, which French writer used a famously masculine pen name?
Which Frenchman, a predecessor of Darwin, theorized that acquired traits could be inherited?
Around which island does a cold wind called the gregale sometimes reach near-hurricane force, menacing ships?
Which church official was the true power behind the throne, strengthening France on behalf of Louis XIII?
Piers Paul Read's "Alive" tells the true story of a plane crash and survival in which mountain range?
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