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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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In which 1948 film did John Huston direct his father Walter to an Oscar	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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Zion National Park is in which US state	Utah
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Part of the superorder Dictyoptera, meaning net-wings, the order Blattodea contains cockroaches and which closely related insects Blattodea (Cockroaches and Termites) Mantodea (Mantises)	termites
The order Hymenoptera contains bees, wasps, ants and which other family of insects	Sawflies
Which Hollywood leading man married Carole Lombard in 1939 and Kay Williams in 1955	Clark Gable
Which Jamaican woman won Gold Medal for 100m at both the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, in addition to four World Championship 100m titles	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price
Which American sprinter won gold medals at both the 1992 and 1996 Olympics for the women's 100m	Gail Deevers
Which mountain was first climbed by Hans Mayer in 1889, and its highest peak called Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze until after the first world warr	Kilimanjaro
Which Rugby League playercontroversially switched to Rugby Union in 2015 for England's World Cup campaign but swapped back in 2016	Sam Burgess
In which German city did Johannes Gutenburg set up his first printing press in 1440	Mainz
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Kipling's Just So story was entitle "How the whale got its..." what	throat
Kipling's Just So story was entitle "How the rhinoceros got its..." what	skin
Maria Mutola won the Woman 800m Olympic title in 2000 representng which country	Mozambique
His son part of Alabama 3 who played the theme tune for the Sopranos, who was the leader of the Great Train Robbery gang	Bruce Reynolds
Taking it name from the skeptical nature of its inhabitants, which US state is known as the Show-Me state	Missouri
Which UK dance band had number ones in the 1990s with Setting Sun and Block Rocking Beats	Chemical Brothers
What name is given to Haydn's Symphony No 96, the first of his London Symphonies, since during its premiere a chandelier fell from the ceiling of the concert hall in which it was performed. but no-one was injured	Miracle Symphony
Which Florentine painter, sculptor and Goldsmith taught Leonardo and created the equestrian sculpture of Bartolommeo Colleoni in Venice	Andrea del Verrocchio 1435-1488
in which part of the body is the brachial nerve	arm
Who created the TV series Survivors and Blakes Seven	Terry Nation
Species of which American pig-like mammals include the javelina, collared or musk hog; the white-lipped; the Chacoan; and the Giant	Peccary
Judge Roy Bean was described as the "only law west of" which river, that rises in North Central New Mexico and flows into Texas where it empties into the Rio Grande	River Pecos
Which insectivorous marsupial also known as the walpurti has a diet consisting almost entirely of termites	Numbat
Chengdu is the prefecture of which large southern Chinese province	Sichuan
Kate Capshaw met Steven Spielberg whom she subsequently marreid on the set of which 1984 movie	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
In 1982, what was Madness's only UK no 1	House of Fun
Which 1985 single was the Eurythmics only UK number One single	There Must Be an Angel (Playing with my Heart)
Formerly a royal hunting ground, what name is given to the AONB comprising barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England	Forest of Bowland or Bowland Fells
Which actor's biography was called The Elephant to Hollywood, recalling his early life in Elephant and Castle	Michael Caine
P	Toad in the hole
Which scene from the Book of Matthew was painted by Pieter Breugel, Guido Reni and Peter Paul Rubens	Massacre of the Innocents
Which scene from the Book of Matthew was painted by Giotto, Botticelli, Velasquez and Rembrandt	Adoration of the Magi
Which horse ridden by Charlie Swan won the Champions Hurdle three years in a row from 1998 to 2000	Istabraq
On the death of William the Conqueror, which elder brother to Willliam Rufus and Henry I was made Duke of Normandy?	Robert Curthose
Which paddle steamer sank in theThames in 1868 with the loss of 650 lives.	Princess Alice
The Aurelian Walls and the Servian Walls werebuilt around which city in the 3rd Century AD and the 4th Century BC respectively	Rome
The supermodel Jodie Kidd represented England at which sport	Polo
Which breed of toy dog is named after the Meditteranean island where it was first bred almost 3000 years ago	Maltese
In which 1993 film do Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker play three witches	Hocus Pocus
Which town in Kent is the birthplace of Mick Jagger and has a performing arts venue named after him	Dartford

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