Trivia questions and answers from Sevens No. 89
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Play today’s sevenMuhammad Ali, who vowed to “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”, starred in which sport?
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✓Boxing, where he won Olympic gold in 1960 as Cassius Clay.
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Which ‘Queen of Soul’ spelled out “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” in her 1967 hit?
- Aretha Franklin
- Diana Ross
- Tina Turner
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✓Aretha Franklin, whose “Respect” was actually a cover of an Otis Redding song.
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Which Leonardo da Vinci mural in Milan shows Jesus sharing a final meal with his apostles?
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✓The Last Supper, painted on the dining-hall wall of a Milan monastery.
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Which city was called New Amsterdam until the English took it over in 1664?
- New York
- Boston
- Philadelphia
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✓New York, renamed for the Duke of York when the English seized it.
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Which river flows through the heart of Paris, past Notre-Dame and the Louvre?
- The Seine
- The Loire
- The Rhône
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✓The Seine, whose booksellers date to the 1500s, though their green stalls came in the late 1800s.
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What did the Hollywood sign, put up in 1923 to advertise a housing development, originally spell?
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✓Hollywoodland, until the last four letters came down in 1949.
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Which is the only planet in our solar system whose English name doesn’t come from a god?
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✓Earth, from Old English ‘eorþe’, meaning ground or soil.
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