Qwizzeria Daily #76

Question #5

Here are the five questions of the day!

1. Hamlet was performed in Kronborg Castle (the inspiration for Elsinore in Hamlet) to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, with a cast consisting of soldiers from the castle garrison. In which country is this castle located?

2. Yo-Yo Ma is a French-born Chinese American musician. He has received 18 Grammy Awards and has been awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. What instrument does he play?

3. This book was initially titled ‘My Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice”. However, prompted by the publisher, the title of the book was changed. It sold 228,000 copies between 1925 and 1932 and one million copies in 1933. What book?

4. When he died in 1974, he was given the honour of being buried at Mount Zion in Jerusalem: the only member of the German Nazi party to be thus honoured. The reason for this honour was something he did while running a factory in Poland during World War II. Who?

5. Circuit Bremgarten hosted the Swiss Grand Prix Formula One race from 1950 until 1954. In which Swiss canton was circuit Bremgarten located?

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