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Tinian Island, from which Enola Gay took off en route to bomb Hiroshima, is part of which US territory? | show 🗑
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show | At The Castle Gate by Sibelius
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show | Kristen Bell
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show | Kidderminster, Bridgnorth
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show | The Ridgeway
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Former PM Gordon Brown and Kenny Dalglish were both born in which city? | show 🗑
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show | Horniman Museum
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show | Never Say Die
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show | Emily Davison
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In McManus's cartoon "Bringing Up Father", what was "father's" name? | show 🗑
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show | Maggie
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show | Alma-Tadema
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show | JB Priestley
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show | Napoleon
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Who wrote "Anna Of The Five Towns"? | show 🗑
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In criminology, what is an "inchoate offence"? | show 🗑
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show | Glutton
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Which disease causes the roots of brassicas (eg cabbage) to swell? | show 🗑
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show | Tata Nano
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show | Cuckoo spit
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show | Designed the 'bouncing bomb'
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Which constellation bears the popular name 'Charioteer'? | show 🗑
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show | Chiron
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show | Phenol, or carbolic acid
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show | John Cobb
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show | Christmas stamps
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show | Valles Marineris
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The TATA OneCAT is a car that runs on what? | show 🗑
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What is the legal term for someone authorised to stand in another's place? | show 🗑
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What type of hat is traditionally worn by a town crier? | show 🗑
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show | Laika
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show | Virgin Atlantic
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show | Hale-Bopp
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show | Bendix
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show | John Brown's
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Which fine-grained metamorphic rock can be split into thin layers and used for roofing etc? | show 🗑
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show | Switchblade
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Which disease is also called lockjaw? | show 🗑
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Who set the record for the longest time continuously spent in space by an individual in human history by spending 437 days on 'Mir'? | show 🗑
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show | South America
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show | Permian
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show | Racial Discrimination
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What is the inverse Tan of 1 in degrees? | show 🗑
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What is the log base 10 of 100? | show 🗑
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show | Magnesium
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show | Avro
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What is a 'wildcat well'? | show 🗑
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In 2014, the Kurdish minority Yazidi group were surrounded by ISIS on which mountain in Iraq? | show 🗑
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show | Blue
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Dabiq is the online magazine of who? | show 🗑
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Of what are PANAS and SWANE measuring devices? | show 🗑
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Almedalen Week is an important political forum in which country? | show 🗑
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show | Torshavn
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show | Klyuchevskaya Sopka
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show | Novosibirsk
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Who wrote the 1884 novel 'A Rebours'? | show 🗑
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show | Symbolism
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What was 'Art Nouveau' called in Germany? | show 🗑
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Give either of artist James Whistler's middle names. | show 🗑
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show | 1760-1849
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show | Ukiyo-e
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show | Zither
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Who wrote the songs "Baby It's Cold Outside", "If I Were A Bell" and "A Bushel and A Beck"? | show 🗑
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In which year was the BBC Home Service radio station introduced? | show 🗑
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What was Radio 2's original name, when it started broadcasting in 1945? | show 🗑
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Incorporated into Radio 3 in 1970, in which year did the BBC Third programme radio station start? | show 🗑
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What was renamed Radio 4 in 1967? | show 🗑
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show | 1948
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show | 1972
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show | Bryan Fahey
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Who sang the famous version of "Singin In The Rain" in the eponymous 1952 film musical? | show 🗑
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On which radio station did 'Opportunity Knocks' start off life, in 1949? | show 🗑
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Who was the first winner of 'Opportunity Knocks' in 1949, who later went on to spend 10 weeks at No.1 in the UK with 'Cara Mia' in 1954? | show 🗑
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show | Horropilation
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The Dorset Iron Age tribe the Durotriges had the largest capital in the whole of the British Isles at the time - what is it called nowadays? | show 🗑
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show | Brigantes
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The legendary Finn MacCool belonged to which real historical group, whose task was to guard Celtic-era kings, and whose name was later appropriated for an independence movement? | show 🗑
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show | Vera Lynn
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show | Alma Cogan
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show | Sun
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show | Jesse
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What was Jerry Lee Lewis' first hit? | show 🗑
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show | The Killer
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show | Frank Sinatra
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What was Little Richard's last name? | show 🗑
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show | St Louis
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show | Bo Diddley
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show | Radioactivity
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show | C, N, O, Se, S, P
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A radian is equal to how many degrees, to the nearest degree? | show 🗑
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Which elements, chemically very similar, occupy positions 57-71 on the Periodic Table? | show 🗑
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show | s-type
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show | f-type
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show | p-type
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show | d-type
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Element 100 (atomic number 100) Fermium belongs to which group of elements? | show 🗑
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How was Terry Nelhams better known? | show 🗑
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Who had No 1 hits in the UK with "Cumberland Gap" and "Gamblin' Man"? | show 🗑
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show | Cliff Richard
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What was Billy Fury's biggest UK hit, reaching No. 4 in the charts? | show 🗑
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What was the name of Vince Taylor's backing group? | show 🗑
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show | Vince Taylor
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show | Brian Rankin
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show | The Shadows
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show | Die Brucke (The Bridge)
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Filippo Marinetti's Futurist manifesto was published on the front page of which newspaper in 1909? | show 🗑
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show | Suprematism
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show | Dadaism
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show | Romanian
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The artists Arp, Duchamp, Tzara, Dali, Magritte, Breton, Ernst and Crevel are all associated with which movement? | show 🗑
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show | Zurich
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show | Cabaret Voltaire
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show | The Persistence Of Memory
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Who had US hits with both "Crying In The Chapel" and "It's Too Soon To Know"? | show 🗑
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show | Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers
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show | The Skyliners
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show | The Zodiacs
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Who had a hit with "Voice In The Wilderness" in the 1950s? | show 🗑
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What is the surname of the US singer-songwriter known as Dion? | show 🗑
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show | Roy Orbison
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show | Del Shannon
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show | Venezuela and Brazil
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show | Trophic cascade
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Manx and sooty are species of which bird? | show 🗑
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show | Bay of Biscay
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What type of animal is the greater weever? | show 🗑
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show | The Crystals
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Which 1960s girl group had hits with "Be My Baby" and "Baby I Do"? | show 🗑
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Which building, located at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan was reknowned for a flourishing songwriting industry? | show 🗑
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Which song reached No 5 in the USA for Dion And The Belmonts and No 2 in the UK for Marti Wilde? | show 🗑
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show | Little Eva
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show | Aegean Sea (Aegeus)
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What is the correct name of the Mendelssohn overture commonly known as "Fingal's Cave"? | show 🗑
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show | Tsar Sultan
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show | Bo Diddley
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How is Beethoven's Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor better known? | show 🗑
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Which musician wrote the song "Running Bear"? | show 🗑
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How does Schubert's "Die Forelle" translate? | show 🗑
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show | Dana
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show | Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
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show | Apple
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show | Potato
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Who was the daughter of Pasiphae, and the wife of the Greek God Dionysus? | show 🗑
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In some Greek myths, Poseidon married which sea-nymph? | show 🗑
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What colour is peridot? | show 🗑
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Which musical features the song "People Will Say We're In Love"? | show 🗑
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Which Doors keyboard player released an album based on the Carmina Burana? | show 🗑
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show | 1702-13
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Which treaty concluded the War of The Spanish Succession? | show 🗑
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Madame de Pompadour was a mistress of which French king? | show 🗑
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show | Louis XIII
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show | Place Louis XV
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show | Versailles
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Which area of France was nominally independent from 1737 to 1766, ruled by Stanisław Leszczyński, the former king of Poland ? | show 🗑
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show | Sir Edward Hawke
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What was referred to by Voltaire in 'Candide' as no more than 'a few acres of snow'? | show 🗑
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Which three 'critiques' did Kant publish between 1781 and 1790? | show 🗑
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Where was Immanuel Kant born? | show 🗑
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Who was Bertrand Russell's godfather? | show 🗑
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show | David Ricardo
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Which French New Wave director directed Les Biches (1968), La Femme Infidele (1969), and Le Boucher (1970)? | show 🗑
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show | Vancouver
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In which country is Lake Mungo? | show 🗑
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show | The Pelican
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What is the largest town on the island of Elba? | show 🗑
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What type of mineral are stalagmites and stalactites comprised of? | show 🗑
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show | Cromarty, Forth
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Which two shipping forecast areas border Denmark? | show 🗑
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Which shipping forecast area lies due south of South Utsire? | show 🗑
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Which shipping forecast area lies between Forth and Humber? | show 🗑
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show | Dogger
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show | Norway
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Which is the largest of the Aeolian Islands? | show 🗑
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Which shipping forecast area lies between Shannon and Bailey? | show 🗑
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show | Malin
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show | Irish Sea
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Which shipping forecast area lies due south of Ireland, between Shannon and Lundy? | show 🗑
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Which shipping forecast area lies north of Malin, and south of both Faeroes and Fair Isle? | show 🗑
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The US Vice-President's residence, in the US Naval Observatory Grounds, is on which road or street? | show 🗑
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show | Windward Islands
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What is the surname of Lucy from Peanuts? | show 🗑
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Which 'Peanuts' character carries a blanket? | show 🗑
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Which cartoonist devised 'The Perishers'? | show 🗑
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Who was the sheepdog in 'The Perishers'? | show 🗑
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show | Trollope
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show | Jack The Dripper
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show | Armenia
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Who painted "The Light Of The World"? | show 🗑
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show | Garvin
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In 'The Perishers', Boot is whose dog? | show 🗑
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How many fleches are there on a backgammon board? | show 🗑
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The infamous swimmer 'Eric the Eel' represented which country? | show 🗑
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show | 5BC - 65AD
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Pocahontas belonged to which Native Indian tribe? | show 🗑
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Which Englishman did Pocahontas marry? | show 🗑
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show | Ear of corn
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show | Pacific North-West
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show | Iroquois
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Which term is traditionally used to mean a person of combined European and Native American descent? | show 🗑
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In which century did Adam Smith publish his "Wealth Of Nations"? | show 🗑
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In which year was the notorious Salem witch hunt? | show 🗑
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show | Cotton Mather
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What two-word term in law refers to a married woman protected legally by her husband? | show 🗑
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Who wrote "Two Treatises On Government" in 1690? | show 🗑
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DNA evidence has, in modern times, suggested which US President fathered a child with the slave Sally Hemings? | show 🗑
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What was the forename of US President, John Adams' wife? | show 🗑
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show | Martha
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Name any two of the five Native American tribes forcibly relocated by the Trail Of Tears. | show 🗑
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show | Sauk
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show | Dawes Act
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show | Dante Alighieri
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Which two Kings signed the 1502 "Treaty Of Perpetual Peace"? | show 🗑
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Which jurist in the Dutch Republic (10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645) helped to lay the foundations for international law, based on natural law? | show 🗑
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Which musical features the song "When The Children Are Asleep"? | show 🗑
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Plant, Page & Bonham were in which band before they became founders of Led Zeppelin? | show 🗑
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What type of rice is traditionally used to make a risotto? | show 🗑
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Which musical features the tune "We're In The Money"? | show 🗑
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What is apostasy? | show 🗑
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show | Abide With Me (hymn)
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show | 1874-1951
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show | Michael Tippett
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show | Guitar
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Who had a big hit with "The Gambler", winning a Grammy, and reaching No. 22 in the UK? | show 🗑
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show | Alban Berg
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In the Bible, which Roman soldier pierced Christ's side? | show 🗑
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On which traditional tune is "Danny Boy" based? | show 🗑
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show | Bob Dylan
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show | Cauliflower
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show | Mushroom
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show | Violoncello
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Who narrated Jeff Wayne's 1970 album "The War Of The Worlds"? | show 🗑
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Which massively-attended religious festival takes place in India's Madhya Pradesh once every 12 years? | show 🗑
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show | Trumpet
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Who had a hit in 1962 with "Nut Rocker"? | show 🗑
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show | Bobby Picket And The Crypt Kickers
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Who was the BBC concert orchestra's first female conductor? | show 🗑
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show | Chris Rea, Shirley Bassey
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Whose first hit, released in 1984, was "Your Love Is King"? | show 🗑
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Who composed the opera "Boris Gudonov"? | show 🗑
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show | Modest
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Who provided words to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? | show 🗑
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show | Almonds (tho it is made with apricots)
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show | Cherries
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show | Samuel Johnson
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What were pillar boxes' original colour? | show 🗑
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show | S
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show | Venezuela
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The first Royal Mail delivery ran between which two places? | show 🗑
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When was the UK's first telephone directory produced? | show 🗑
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show | Rowland Hill
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Which analogue television system was formerly used in most of the Americas? | show 🗑
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What does the computer language COBOL stand for? | show 🗑
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Which element has the atomic number 50? | show 🗑
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A dodecahedron has how many plane faces? | show 🗑
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Which Platonic figure has exactly 20 plane faces? | show 🗑
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show | Paisley
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Which element has the atomic number 31? | show 🗑
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show | Earth
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show | Fortress
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Which Trevithick locomotive travelled between merthy Tydfil and Abercynnon? | show 🗑
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show | Stockton and Darlington
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show | 1829
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George Cayley (1773-1857) is credited with being the first man to develop what? | show 🗑
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How is ploytetrafluorethylene better known? | show 🗑
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How many runs are scored in a baseball 'Grand Slam'? | show 🗑
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Into which body of water does the River Trent flow? | show 🗑
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show | Fencing
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show | Weber
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In "Pride & Prejudice", how many sisters did Elizabeth Bennet have? | show 🗑
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What name is given to a lady's formal short jacket, without sleeves, worn over a blouse, not reaching the waist, nor meeting in front? | show 🗑
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What is the capital of the US state Nebraska? | show 🗑
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The Pollack belongs to which fish family? | show 🗑
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show | Ben Macdui
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From which tennis Grand Slam was John McEnroe expelled for swearing in 1990? | show 🗑
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Why was Mohammed Ali stripped of his World Heavyweight Boxing Title in 1967? | show 🗑
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Who was the first snooker player to win all of the then-nine ranking tournaments? | show 🗑
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For which football team did Jimmy Greaves make his debut in 1957? | show 🗑
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show | Gymnastics
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Which female athlete (1918-2004) was nicknamed "The Flying Housewife"? | show 🗑
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Which athlete is, as of 2015, the only British track and field competitor to win medals at three different Olympic Games? | show 🗑
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Which revolt occurred in Kenya between 1952 and 1960? | show 🗑
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Dolomite is used as an ore for which metal? | show 🗑
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In which town is Robert the Bruce buried? | show 🗑
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show | Lesotho, Swaziland, Morocco
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show | Jeremiah
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Bedford Giant, Himalaya Giant and Oregon Thornless are all varieties of which fruit? | show 🗑
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show | Dire Straits
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show | Creedence Clearwater Revival
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show | Integrated Digital Services Network
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show | International Standard Book Number
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show | Ten
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When was work on the Thames Barrier completed? | show 🗑
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Luxor and Karnak stand on the site of which Ancient Egyptian city? | show 🗑
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show | Yokohama
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The football team Grampus (formerly Grampus Eight) are based in which city? | show 🗑
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In which city is the largest department store in the world? | show 🗑
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What was the largest department store in the world from 1924 to 2009? | show 🗑
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Give a year in the life of William Blake. | show 🗑
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show | Uruguay
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What is the total value of the coloured balls in snooker, not including the reds? | show 🗑
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Where is the "Attila Line"? | show 🗑
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show | Macau
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show | 4
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Which is the only London borough to include land on both sides of the Thames? | show 🗑
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Which English King's only legitimate son drowned when the 'White Ship' sank? | show 🗑
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show | Oliver!
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show | Lord Darnley
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With reference to playing cards, how are court cards known in the USA? | show 🗑
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show | Gerald Ford
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show | Lutine Bell
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In which year did Mussolini invade Ethiopia? | show 🗑
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show | Roman Catholics
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Who (1898-2001) established the Royal Ballet, the Royal Ballet School, and the Birmingham Royal Ballet? | show 🗑
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show | St Stephen's Tower and the Victoria (or Central) Tower
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How many imperial gallons are in a barrel of oil? | show 🗑
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show | 42
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show | Hope Diamond
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show | Harold Pinter
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show | Tom Rakewell
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What is 'papering the house' in the theatre? | show 🗑
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show | A Man Of Property
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show | To Let
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show | Borneo
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show | Phoenix
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show | Howards End
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show | Swiss
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Usually created out of wood, her sculptures appear puzzle-like, with multiple intricately cut pieces placed into wall sculptures or independently standing pieces, often monochromatic and 3-D - which US sculptor (1899-1988)? | show 🗑
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show | French
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Which Austrian (1899-1957) illustrated works by Dostoyevsky and Edgar Allan Poe, and himself wrote Die andere Seite (The Other Side), a Kafkaesque novel? | show 🗑
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Who wrote 1915's "The Golem"? | show 🗑
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Which Belgian-born poet, writer and painter wrote Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones? | show 🗑
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What was the name of the daughter of Whitney Houston who was found unresponsive in a bathtub in 2015? | show 🗑
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Who wrote The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based? | show 🗑
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Which Von Eichendorff work sees the protagonist leaves his father's mill and become a gardener at a Viennese castle where he falls in love with the daughter of the duke? | show 🗑
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Der Blonde Eckbert was a fairytale by which German founder of the Romantic movement (1773-1853)? | show 🗑
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show | Fairy tale
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Who wrote "The Singing Bone"? | show 🗑
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What was the pseudonym of German philosopher Salomo Friedlander? | show 🗑
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show | Thynne
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In which city is Wren's Sheldonian Theatre? | show 🗑
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show | Staffa
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In which county is Papworth Hospital? | show 🗑
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Foolow, a village famed for lead mining activities, is in which county? | show 🗑
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Which Notts town claims to contain "The Original Bramley Apple Tree", with the first Bramley cooking apple seeded there by Mary Ann Brailsford in 1809? | show 🗑
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In which county is Brodsworth Hall? | show 🗑
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show | Billund
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Mannington, Horton and Heaton are all areas of which city? | show 🗑
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show | Charles Dickens
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show | Dorset
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show | Hampshire
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show | Severn
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show | Disc record/disc record phonograph
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show | Frank Sinatra
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Of what were 78rpm records made, a product secreted by a near-namesake bug in Asia? | show 🗑
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show | David Bowie
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Who released a 2012 album of greatest hits called "Grrr!"? | show 🗑
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Romy Madley Smith and Oliver Sim are members of which band? | show 🗑
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Whose 17th studio album was entitled "Wrecking Ball"? | show 🗑
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show | Tame Impala
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How is singer Elizabeth Woolridge Grant better known? | show 🗑
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Which two albums won Mercury Prize Awards for PJ Harvey? | show 🗑
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Which words appear on Brazil's flag? | show 🗑
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show | Blue
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What colour flame is produced when sodium is burned? | show 🗑
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Who (1824-1887) coined the term 'black body radiation' and has two sets of laws - one in circuit theory, and one in spectroscopy - named after him? | show 🗑
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show | Robert (Bunsen)
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Arsenic and lead both produce flames of which colour when burned? | show 🗑
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What name, after a German optician and chemist, is given to the dark absorption lines in the Sun's spectrum? | show 🗑
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Why do absorption lines appear in the Sun's spectrum? | show 🗑
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show | Towards the observer (blue light is of shorter wavelength than red)
🗑
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Measured in joules per second, which astronomical term is the total amount of energy emitted by a star, galaxy, or other astronomical object per unit time? | show 🗑
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show | 4pi x radius squared
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show | Cecilia Payne
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show | Yellowstone NP
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show | El Castillo, Spain
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show | Santander
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What term is used for the oldest stone tool industry in prehistory, occurring in Africa 2.6 million years ago up until 1.7 million years ago, by ancient hominins? | show 🗑
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show | Breaks down proteins
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show | Alexander Pope
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show | As You Like It
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In which range of hills is Cheddar Gorge? | show 🗑
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What now stands at the site of the former Tyburn gallows in London? | show 🗑
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show | Torres Strait
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show | Natal
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Which long tunnel, that connects Switzerland and Italy, opened in 1905? | show 🗑
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show | Sealand
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show | Ouse, Trent
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show | Savile Row
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show | Usk
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show | Maldives, Indonesia
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show | St Boniface Down
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show | Kurt Hahn
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What is the capital of South Dakota? | show 🗑
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show | Nashville
🗑
|
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show | Austin
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|
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What is the capital of Utah? | show 🗑
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show | Montpelier
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|
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show | Old Dominion State
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show | Mountain State
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show | Evergreen State
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What is the nickname of the US state of Wisconsin? | show 🗑
|
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show | Equality State
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show | Cleavage
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show | Shropshire
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show | Cap Gris Nez
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What, as of 2015, is the currency of Nicaragua? | show 🗑
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show | Balboa/US Dollar (both)
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show | Peso
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Which capital city lies on the river Daugava? | show 🗑
|
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show | Lille
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|
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show | London's Science Museum
🗑
|
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Where is the Wright Flyer today? | show 🗑
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Which London mainline station was once called "St Paul's"? | show 🗑
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show | Mallaig
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|
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In which country is the Skeleton Coast? | show 🗑
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In which two English counties is the Jurassic Coast? | show 🗑
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What is the Ikkurina? | show 🗑
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show | Penrith, Haydon Bridge
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|
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show | Montpellier
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|
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show | The Wash
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|
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show | The White House
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show | Tarn (France)
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|
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Run by communists from 1945-90, which is Italy's oldest university? | show 🗑
|
||||
Where is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology based? | show 🗑
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show | Buxton
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|
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show | Eight
🗑
|
||||
What name is given to a pattern of stars in the night sky that may or may not be part of a constellation? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which sea lies between Russia and Alaska, North of the Bering Strait? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Russia
🗑
|
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show | Diomede Islands
🗑
|
||||
After Texas and California, which is the third largest of the 'lower' 48 United States? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which 'sound' did the Exxon Valdez run aground in 1989, causing massive environmental damage from the resulting oil spill? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which inlet runs between the main part of Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula to Anchorage? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which US state is the greatest percentage of its inhabitants based in its most populous city? | show 🗑
|
||||
Discovered in 1968, which is the largest oil field in North America? | show 🗑
|
||||
In 1960, where was the epicentre of the largest measured earthquake in world history? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Alaska
🗑
|
||||
show | (American) Black Bear
🗑
|
||||
show | Kit
🗑
|
||||
Which cetacean is the only member of the species monodontidae, bar the narwhal? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which climate classification system was first published by a Russian German climatologist in 1884? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Anchorage
🗑
|
||||
In which century was Iceland's parliament, the Althing, founded? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which Berkshire stately home is the main filming location for Downton Abbey? | show 🗑
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show | Þingvellir (Thingvellir)
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|
||||
show | Hamlet
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|
||||
show | Jorge Luis Borges
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|
||||
show | Mencius/Meng Tzu
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|
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show | St Paul
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|
||||
What is the fifth book of the New Testament? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Metallica
🗑
|
||||
In December 2014, which medical procedure was carried out successfully for the first time at Stellenbosch University in South Africa? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Frei Otto
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|
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show | Cyclone Pam
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|
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Which Seleucid Empire city and UNESCO World Heritage Site was destroyed by ISIS in March 2015, days after they had bulldozed Nimrud? | show 🗑
|
||||
The battle of Garnett & Golding's Farm was part of which wider conflict? | show 🗑
|
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show | Malvinas Day
🗑
|
||||
The Despenser war was a baronial revolt against which monarch? | show 🗑
|
||||
Samoset (c. 1590–1653) was the first Native American to make contact with who? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which year was the first F.A. Cup Final? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The Oval, Kennington
🗑
|
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show | My Lai Massacre (in Vietnam, the Son My Massacre)
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|
||||
Which CIA station chief was kidnapped in Beirut in 1984, and died in the custody of Hezbollah in 1985? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Speedball
🗑
|
||||
Who was the main star of Britain's first comedy series, "How Do You View"? | show 🗑
|
||||
What was the nationality of soprano Joan Sutherland? | show 🗑
|
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show | Jackson Browne
🗑
|
||||
show | Bob Dylan
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|
||||
What is the main ingredient of calvados? | show 🗑
|
||||
What was the name of the Sun God of the Incas? | show 🗑
|
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show | Ray Davies
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|
||||
show | 1967
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|
||||
Which Central European, acid-set cheese is white, un-aged and similar to fromage frais; and is made by warming soured milk? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | King Crimson
🗑
|
||||
show | Deep Purple, Rainbow
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|
||||
show | Lohengrin
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|
||||
show | Ponchielli
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|
||||
show | Saint-Saens
🗑
|
||||
"Rose-Marie" and "The Vagabond King" are the best-known pieces by which composer, upon whose work "The Donkey Serenade" was based? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Deep Purple
🗑
|
||||
show | Freyja
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|
||||
show | Ragnarok
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|
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show | Mjollnir
🗑
|
||||
Who were Zeus' parents in Greek myth? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Canned beer
🗑
|
||||
Bundaberg rum originates from which country? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which herb's name comes from the Greek for "joy of the mountain"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Peach juice
🗑
|
||||
show | Clarinet
🗑
|
||||
show | Simon Peter
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|
||||
show | Potatoes
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|
||||
show | Vincent Nichols
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|
||||
show | Harry's Bar, Venice
🗑
|
||||
show | Piano
🗑
|
||||
show | Patras, Greece
🗑
|
||||
What was the first US #1 song by a UK artist? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which activity might you sparge your wort? | show 🗑
|
||||
What ingredient, along with chickpeas, garlic and oil, makes hummus? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which year did 10cc have a hit with "I'm Not In Love"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which popular Indian drink is made with yoghurt? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Beecham
🗑
|
||||
Whose 1540 Bible translation was also called "The Great Bible"? | show 🗑
|
||||
From a passage in Genesis, what nickname was given to the Geneva Bible? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | John Knox
🗑
|
||||
To what did Kraft foods change their name? | show 🗑
|
||||
How many symphonies in total did Mozart compose? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The International Society for Krishna Consciousness
🗑
|
||||
show | Red Lead
🗑
|
||||
Which gas is the main component of air? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which two metals comprise brass? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which two metals comprise bronze? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Photochromic
🗑
|
||||
Which breed of dog has a name meaning 'dwarf'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Greyhound; collie
🗑
|
||||
Which breed of dog famously has a black tongue? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Saltpeter
🗑
|
||||
show | Salts of Lemon
🗑
|
||||
By what name is silicon carbide better known? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Sett; Earth
🗑
|
||||
show | 1778-1829
🗑
|
||||
Humphry Davy discovered the anaesthetic properties of what? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Aqua Regia
🗑
|
||||
show | Silk weaving
🗑
|
||||
show | Neodymium
🗑
|
||||
Who devised the early submarine 'Nautilus', in 1800? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Gas stove
🗑
|
||||
show | Powdered Milk
🗑
|
||||
What colour do acids and alkalis turn litmus paper? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Complementary
🗑
|
||||
What name is given to angles that add up to 180 degrees? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Reflex
🗑
|
||||
show | Asbestos
🗑
|
||||
Who was Britain's first female cabinet minister? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Maldives
🗑
|
||||
show | Audie Murphy
🗑
|
||||
show | Maggie Gyllenhaal
🗑
|
||||
How much is a US nickel worth? | show 🗑
|
||||
A US nickel coin is actually comprised of 25% nickel and 75% of which metal? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 1985
🗑
|
||||
show | HMS Bellerophon
🗑
|
||||
How else was the 1794 naval action "Lord Howe's Action" known? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Rihanna
🗑
|
||||
David LaChapelle is a famous name in which field? | show 🗑
|
||||
What type of organism are the bolete family? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Hugh Walpole
🗑
|
||||
The term 'Christ' dervies from the Greek for what? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Syriac
🗑
|
||||
show | Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
🗑
|
||||
Which church council was held from October 8 to November 1, AD 451, and marked a significant turning point in the Christological debates that led to the separate establishment of the church in the Western Roman Empire during the 5th century? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Tanakh
🗑
|
||||
What was first produced by William Morgan in 1588 that had important consequences for a language's survival? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
🗑
|
||||
show | Kimbanguism
🗑
|
||||
What is the proper name of the religious group known as the 'Moonies'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Seoul (Yoido Full Gospel Church)
🗑
|
||||
show | Caravaggio
🗑
|
||||
show | Medea
🗑
|
||||
show | Michael Gazzaniga
🗑
|
||||
How are the brain structures hypothalamus, hippocampus and amygdala collectively known? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which famous experiment in psychology was carried out in 1970 by Walter Mischel at Stanford University - it was later the title of a 2014 popular science book by him? | show 🗑
|
||||
What does SAT stand for in the UK version of the school test? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Scholastic Aptitude Tests
🗑
|
||||
show | Dr Phil McGraw
🗑
|
||||
show | 480-524AD
🗑
|
||||
show | Sympathetic
🗑
|
||||
show | Cognitive Therapy
🗑
|
||||
Who won a Best Actress Academy Award in 1949 for "The Heiress"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The Tempest
🗑
|
||||
What was the name of the 1957 Akira Kurosawa film that was loosely based on MacBeth? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who played Stephano in Derek Jarman's 1979 version of "The Tempest"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
🗑
|
||||
show | Up
🗑
|
||||
show | Park Chan-Wook
🗑
|
||||
show | Nick Hornby
🗑
|
||||
show | Kenickie
🗑
|
||||
show | Rizzo
🗑
|
||||
What were the names of the male and female gangs in the film "Grease"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Listen With Mother
🗑
|
||||
Which comedian's catchphrase was "before your very eyes"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Hawaii Five-O
🗑
|
||||
For which film did Warner Baxter win a Best Actor Academy Award? | show 🗑
|
||||
For which For which film did Jeremy Irons win a Best Actor Academy Award? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Gigi
🗑
|
||||
Who did Nicholas Lyndhurst play in "Butterflies"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Dale Cooper
🗑
|
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Which fictional TV company had the telephone number 0161 7151515? | show 🗑
|
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In October 2009, which politician appeared in Eastenders? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Weatherfield Gazette
🗑
|
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In the original 1960s series, what is the prisoner's number? | show 🗑
|
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In 'Twin Peaks', who killed Laura Palmer? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Bikini Bottom
🗑
|
||||
show | Lassie
🗑
|
||||
show | Billy Wilder
🗑
|
||||
Which character does Robert Pattison play in the "Twilight" series of films? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which single word did Confucius say could act as a guide to one's entire life? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which famous Rabbi, associated with the development of the Mishnah and Talmud, allegedly lived 120 years (110BCE-10CE) and said ""That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."? | show 🗑
|
||||
The immigrant Bonasera features in the opening scene of which famous film? | show 🗑
|
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show | 25% (One quarter)
🗑
|
||||
show | 1999
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|
||||
show | 3 million
🗑
|
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In which capital city is St Fagans National History Museum located? | show 🗑
|
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Which town, thought to have been an inspiration for Llareggub in 'Under Milk Wood', was home to Dylan Thomas from 1949 to his 1953 death? | show 🗑
|
||||
Taken as the Mid-Wales area (ie not including Snowdonia, the Black Mountains or the Brecon Beacons) what is the highest point in the Cambrian mountains? | show 🗑
|
||||
What was the first area in Britain to have been declared an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Caymans
🗑
|
||||
Which 19th century circular towers were built in Britain for coastal defence? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which country is the source of the Zambezi? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the motto of the USA? | show 🗑
|
||||
Snaefell is the highest mountain in which autonomous region? | show 🗑
|
||||
To which place did the French Foreign Legion move its HQ in 1962? | show 🗑
|
||||
Where had the French Foreign Legion been based prior to 1962? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Great Bear Lake
🗑
|
||||
show | Guatemala
🗑
|
||||
show | Rhone
🗑
|
||||
Which city is the 'Capital of the Gaidhealtachd'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Stewardship Of The Manor of Northstead
🗑
|
||||
show | Delaware
🗑
|
||||
The River Oder enters the Baltic Sea in which country? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Cambridge and London
🗑
|
||||
The Grain (or Pepper) Coast is in which African country? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Tottenham Court Road
🗑
|
||||
In which town in England is there a famous crescent designed by John Carr? | show 🗑
|
||||
Angel Falls lie on which river? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the highest point on Fiji? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Piccadilly Circus
🗑
|
||||
show | 1959
🗑
|
||||
In which country is the major part of the Kalahari Desert? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Auckland
🗑
|
||||
What is someone from Halifax called? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which three colours appear on the flag of Rwanda? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The letter 'R'
🗑
|
||||
Margaret River is a wine-producing area in which country? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Middlesex Street
🗑
|
||||
show | Great Abel
🗑
|
||||
Which county cricket team's emblem is a white horse? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Bobby Charlton
🗑
|
||||
show | 59
🗑
|
||||
show | Stade De France
🗑
|
||||
Which county cricket club called their One Day side the 'Phantoms'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Almost Fine
🗑
|
||||
show | Stradley Park
🗑
|
||||
Which event comes second (after the 100m) in a decathlon? | show 🗑
|
||||
The Horse of The Year Show moved to which venue in 2002? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which city is the home of the NBA team the 'Pistons'? | show 🗑
|
||||
What completes the name of the rugby union team: "Newport Gwent.."? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Powerboat Racing
🗑
|
||||
In the 2005 Rugby league Challenge Cup, which side did St Helens defeat 75-0? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Willie John McBride
🗑
|
||||
Manchester City's FA Cup win in 2011 was their first major trophy since which year? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who scored the winning goal for Manchester City in the 2011 FA Cup final? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which piece of equipment was originally made with 'enough feathers to fill a top hat'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Swedish
🗑
|
||||
show | Hasim Rahman
🗑
|
||||
show | Walter Hagen
🗑
|
||||
show | Archery (on horseback)
🗑
|
||||
show | Three (1916, 1940, 1944)
🗑
|
||||
What colour of cap does a water polo goalkeeper wear? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which sport can one see a participant perform a 'crucifix'? | show 🗑
|
||||
How many points are scored for a 'behind' in Aussie Rules Football? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Vladivostok
🗑
|
||||
show | Geiger
🗑
|
||||
show | Alexander Nevsky
🗑
|
||||
show | Florence
🗑
|
||||
show | Wuxia
🗑
|
||||
show | Las Ramblas
🗑
|
||||
Focussing on the life of Saul Goodman prior to becoming Walter White’s lawyer, Better Call Saul is a prequel to which American TV series? | show 🗑
|
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Which Gate marked the entrance to the original site of the Carlsberg brewery? | show 🗑
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Separated from the Andaman Islands by the brilliantly named Coco Channel, the Coco Islands - although allegedly leased to China since 1994 - belong to which country? | show 🗑
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What collective name, for the Portuguese navigator who first visited them in the early sixteenth century, is given to the island group consisting of Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues that forms a distinct ecoregion with a unique flora and fauna? | show 🗑
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The best-known work of the architect Maya Lin, is a memorial in Washington D.C., dedicated in 1982, that honours people who died during …. what? | show 🗑
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show | Judo
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|
||||
show | Worm lizards (amphisbaenia)
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|
||||
Gottfried Leibniz’s most important contribution to metaphysics is his theory of which indivisible, impenetrable units of substance that he views as the basic constituent element of physical reality? | show 🗑
|
||||
The Rolling Stones hits Brown Sugar and Wild Horses are taken from which 1971 album with cover artwork conceived by Andy Warhol? | show 🗑
|
||||
UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash in 1961 in the city of Ndola in which African country? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Shinzo Abe
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|
||||
From what Latin term does the word 'forensics' derive? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Las Vegas, New York, Miami
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|
||||
In the UK what is the FSS? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Drug Enforcement Agency
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|
||||
show | United States Fish and Wildlife Service
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|
||||
show | Ethology
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|
||||
show | Hypothalamus
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|
||||
show | Amygdala
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|
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On which peninsula is Mycenae? | show 🗑
|
||||
Around which date, to the nearest 100 years, did Mycenaean civilisation collapse? | show 🗑
|
||||
The shrine at Delphi, home to the famous Oracle, was a shrine to which God? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 22
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|
||||
How many letters are used by the Greek alphabet? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Alcibiades
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|
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show | Cynics
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|
||||
Give a year in the life of Aristotle. | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 431-401BCE
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|
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show | Delian League
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|
||||
Which US conservative political commentator and radio host once had an addiction to hydrocodone and oxycodone? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which person said "The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances...and are often more influenced by the things that seem than the things that are."? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who created the fictional town of Lake Wobegon? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who wrote "Clair De Lune"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Nutcracker Suite
🗑
|
||||
show | Phaethon
🗑
|
||||
Which character in myth swam the Hellespont nightly to visit his lover? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Circe
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|
||||
show | Laocoon
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|
||||
In myth, of whom was Damocles a courtier? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who is the 'good priest' in Mozart's "The Magic Flute"? | show 🗑
|
||||
In 'The Magic Flute', who is the daughter of the Queen Of The Night? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Massenet
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|
||||
show | Memphis Group
🗑
|
||||
Whose first TV appearance was in a 1965 episode of 'Gadzooks!', and was a member, in his early days of bands 'The Konrads' and 'The Riot Squad'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Westlife's "Flying Without Wings"
🗑
|
||||
show | Pearson
🗑
|
||||
show | Jamie Hewlett
🗑
|
||||
What is the name of composer John Cage's infamous entirely silent piece? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Kurt Weill
🗑
|
||||
La Traviata is based on which work by Dumas? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Borax
🗑
|
||||
By what name is sodium carbonate better known? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the chemical name of caustic soda? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which is the lightest metal? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Titanium
🗑
|
||||
Charcoal, sulphur and what else form gunpowder? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which chemical element has the atomic number 10? | show 🗑
|
||||
A whippet is a cross between which two dog breeds? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Electrical Capacitance
🗑
|
||||
How many crystal systems exist? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Oxygen and Silcon
🗑
|
||||
show | Taurus
🗑
|
||||
show | Bootes
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|
||||
show | Orion
🗑
|
||||
"Model White" and "Green Globe" are both varieties of which vegetable? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Ambush
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|
||||
show | Shrewdness
🗑
|
||||
show | Troop
🗑
|
||||
What name is given to a star in heraldry | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Woodlice
🗑
|
||||
show | Japan
🗑
|
||||
Which is Europe's largest true wading bird? | show 🗑
|
||||
What name is given to a day with equal periods of light and darkness? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Light bulb
🗑
|
||||
show | Common (English) oak
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|
||||
show | Kurt Godel
🗑
|
||||
Which car maker operated a Luton plant from 1905 to 2000? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 40mph
🗑
|
||||
Whose yet-unproved theory states that every integer greater than 2 is the sum of 2 primes? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Isle of Man
🗑
|
||||
show | Queen's Bench Court
🗑
|
||||
What are civil court equivalents of the prosecution and defence in a criminal trial? | show 🗑
|
||||
In the UK, what category of drug is LSD? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Cocaine
🗑
|
||||
What does LSD stand for? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who are the US DEA? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Moraine
🗑
|
||||
Stranraer is at the southern tip of which sea loch? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Veldt
🗑
|
||||
show | Drumlin
🗑
|
||||
show | Black Sea
🗑
|
||||
show | Mohole Project
🗑
|
||||
What is the name given to a thin sheet of ice floating on an ocean? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which cardinal direction must you cross the International Dateline in order to gain a day? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Albedo
🗑
|
||||
In navigation, what name is given to an arc crossing all meridians of longitude at the same angle? | show 🗑
|
||||
Beauty spot Aysgarth Falls lies within which British National Park? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Cartouche
🗑
|
||||
show | Nottingham
🗑
|
||||
In which Cumbrian castle was Henry VIII's wife Catherine Parr born? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Strickland
🗑
|
||||
show | Esthwaite
🗑
|
||||
show | Bridgetown
🗑
|
||||
show | Peso
🗑
|
||||
show | Daresbury
🗑
|
||||
show | London
🗑
|
||||
show | Glacier
🗑
|
||||
show | Death Valley
🗑
|
||||
Where is the lowest point on land in the world? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | South Pole
🗑
|
||||
show | Mawsynram (formerly Cherrapunji)
🗑
|
||||
show | 70%
🗑
|
||||
show | Yellowstone
🗑
|
||||
In which two US states is Monument Valley? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Olduvai Gorge
🗑
|
||||
show | India
🗑
|
||||
show | Altamira
🗑
|
||||
show | Bodmin Moor
🗑
|
||||
show | New Mexico
🗑
|
||||
show | India
🗑
|
||||
In which US state is the 'Craters Of The Moon National Monument'? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the highest point on Dartmoor? | show 🗑
|
||||
On which island is the volcanic tuff cone, Diamond Head? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Erg
🗑
|
||||
Dunkery Beacon is the highest point of what? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Staffa
🗑
|
||||
show | Colorado
🗑
|
||||
show | Guy Béart
🗑
|
||||
show | Juliette Gréco
🗑
|
||||
Which 19th Century French Romantic poet once walked through Paris with a lobster on a lead, but hung himself in 1855? | show 🗑
|
||||
What were the reputed last words of Oscar Wilde? | show 🗑
|
||||
Diane de Poitiers was the lover of which French monarch? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which French dynasty reigned from roughly 486 to 752CE? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Philip II (or Philippe-Auguste)
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|
||||
show | Catherine Deneuve
🗑
|
||||
The US magazine 'Curve' is aimed at which readers? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which French artist painted "Dans Un Café (L'Absinthe)"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which French artist painted "Joueurs Des Cartes"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Monet
🗑
|
||||
What does the French word "coquelicots" mean in English? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Emmanuel Bell
🗑
|
||||
Which 19th Century architect and artist remodelled Notre-Dame and added many of its famous gargoyles? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which French King had the Sainte-Chapelle built to house supposed relics of Christ? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who led a revolt against the French monarchy in 1357, and was assassinated a year later? | show 🗑
|
||||
What name is given to the targeted killing of Huguenots in France in August 1572? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Rodin
🗑
|
||||
For which film did Michael Douglas win a Best Actor Academy Award (Oscar)? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | A Free Soul (1932)
🗑
|
||||
show | Shine (1997)
🗑
|
||||
Who won a Best Actor Academy Award for the film "Judgement at Nuremberg"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Remy
🗑
|
||||
show | Peter O'Toole
🗑
|
||||
show | No Place Like Home
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|
||||
show | Spike (sometimes Butch)
🗑
|
||||
Which former Baywatch star also appeared in 2000's "Scary Movie" and briefly dated Simon Cowell? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Adrian Mole
🗑
|
||||
What was the name of the banjo-playing toad in "Bagpuss"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Kim Cattrall
🗑
|
||||
In BBC's first post-war TV broadcast who said "Remember Me?" | show 🗑
|
||||
For which two films did Spencer Tracy win a Best Actor Academy Award (Oscar)? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The Private Life of Henry VIII (1936)
🗑
|
||||
Whose catchphrase is "How tickled I am"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Private Popplewell (Bernard Bresslaw)
🗑
|
||||
show | Arthur Askey
🗑
|
||||
Which author, born in Manchester in 1917, used the pseudonym Joseph Kell? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Velazquez
🗑
|
||||
Which Roman encyclopaedist is best known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Plutarch
🗑
|
||||
show | Tacitus
🗑
|
||||
Which novel begins "Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who wrote the Almagest is a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths? | show 🗑
|
||||
What does 'eg' actually stand for, when denoting an example? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Galsworthy (Kipling won it before him but was born in Bombay)
🗑
|
||||
Which poem's first line is "The curlew tolls the knell of the parting day"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Peter Pan's directions to Neverland were "Take the second on the right and carry straight on...." until what? | show 🗑
|
||||
How was the literary character Cedric Errol better known? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Cinderella
🗑
|
||||
What was the name of the 'Last of the Mohicans' in Fenimore Cooper's book? | show 🗑
|
||||
Colm Toibin's book "The Master" is about which writer? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | As You Like It
🗑
|
||||
Who wrote the play "The Man Who Had All The Luck"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Autolycus is a character in which of Shakespeare's plays? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Ziggurats
🗑
|
||||
show | Delaware
🗑
|
||||
Which was the second US State to ratify the country's constitution? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Hugh Trevor-Roper
🗑
|
||||
'The Hitler Diaries' were originally published in which German magazine, prior to their unmasking as forgeries? | show 🗑
|
||||
"The Beggar's Opera" was a satire in part lampooning which prominent Whig politician? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Croatia
🗑
|
||||
show | Thailand
🗑
|
||||
Which English monarch was the only one to be succeeded by his sister-in-law? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which prominent female communist was killed in 1919's 'Spartacus Uprising' in Germany and her body thrown into Berlin's Landwehr Canal? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Abraham Ortelius
🗑
|
||||
show | Pietro Badoglio
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|
||||
show | Brazil
🗑
|
||||
show | 1989
🗑
|
||||
Who assassinated Spencer Percival? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Lord Palmerston
🗑
|
||||
In which country were 63 people killed in a New Year's Eve nightclub fire in 2008? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Decembrist
🗑
|
||||
Which monarch converted Versailles from a hunting-lodge into a palace? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Versace
🗑
|
||||
show | Lundy
🗑
|
||||
The ruins of which Cistercian abbey, founded in 1131, lie on the banks of the River Wye between Monmouth and Chepstow? | show 🗑
|
||||
Falstaff's death is reported in which of Shakespeare's plays? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Beethoven
🗑
|
||||
show | Maria Theresa of Austria
🗑
|
||||
Which US director's films include "The Elephant Man" and "Dune"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which Australian-born actor came to fame playing the title role in 1935's "Captain Blood"? | show 🗑
|
||||
"Soubise", named after an 18th-century French aristocrat, is a sauce made from which vegetable? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which Canadian city was originally named 'Bytown'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Sanssouci
🗑
|
||||
show | 17th (1613)
🗑
|
||||
In which Booker Prize winning novel does the hero, Nick Guest, dance with Margaret Thatcher? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Sara Partesky
🗑
|
||||
show | Pisces
🗑
|
||||
What is the primary metabolite of heroin? | show 🗑
|
||||
In chemistry, what name is given to the measure of the tendency of a substance to vaporize? | show 🗑
|
||||
What Latin phrase was used by Venetians to denote the land they controlled on the Italian mainland? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Massachussetts
🗑
|
||||
Give a year during which Joe Louis held the World Heavyweight boxing title. | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Dietmar Hamann
🗑
|
||||
show | Det Insp Lynley
🗑
|
||||
show | Victoria Cross
🗑
|
||||
What word of Dutch origin meaning something used as a lure originally meant a place where wild ducks were enticed and then trapped? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Necromancer
🗑
|
||||
show | Dorchester
🗑
|
||||
show | PD James
🗑
|
||||
show | Mildred Pierce
🗑
|
||||
show | Turkey
🗑
|
||||
show | Montreal Expo
🗑
|
||||
show | Zinc
🗑
|
||||
Which area of the brain, in the frontal lobe of the left hemisphere, is linked to speech production? | show 🗑
|
||||
What type of creature is an 'Aylesbury'? | show 🗑
|
||||
What name is given to an organism's complete set of genes? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which two members of the thrush family are winter visitors to the UK? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Mistletoe
🗑
|
||||
show | Ptarmigan
🗑
|
||||
What are the six deer species found wild in the UK? | show 🗑
|
||||
The Lesser Celandine plant is also known by what name, based on the medical condition that it supposedly cures? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which crow has the scientific name 'corvus frugilegus'? | show 🗑
|
||||
The linnet is a member of which bird family? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Hen Harrier
🗑
|
||||
What is Britain's smallest falcon? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Roof lizard
🗑
|
||||
What is the SE Asian gavial? | show 🗑
|
||||
Cyomancy is the 'art' of telling the future using what? | show 🗑
|
||||
SMART-1 was the first European space probe to achieve what feat? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 2 years
🗑
|
||||
In business, what does 'CIF' stand for? | show 🗑
|
||||
What name is given to the study of plant disease? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Chinese Walls
🗑
|
||||
show | Fusion
🗑
|
||||
What name is given to the cup or trumpet of flowers such as the daffodil or narcissus? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Dot-dash
🗑
|
||||
Which Morse code letter is the reverse of how 'A' is represented? | show 🗑
|
||||
What type of animal was the now-extinct 'Rodrigues solitaire'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Sir Isaac Newton
🗑
|
||||
show | London and Paris (or pedantically, London and Dover, with the Calais to Paris stretch being via the 'Fleche D'Or)
🗑
|
||||
What was the famous nickname of Joseph Hobson Jaggers? | show 🗑
|
||||
Whose principle can be used to predict the effect of a change in conditions upon a chemical equilibrium? | show 🗑
|
||||
Whose 'paradox' states that in a static, infinite universe the night sky should be bright? | show 🗑
|
||||
What was invented by John Harrison in 1735, after 31 years of persistent experimentation? | show 🗑
|
||||
What was the name of John Paul Jones' warship, that was blown in two and subsequently sank at the Battle of Flamborough Head? | show 🗑
|
||||
What name is given to a numbering system using Base 8? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | English (as an) Additional Language
🗑
|
||||
What does the educational acronym SEN stand for? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Osaka
🗑
|
||||
What was the name of Sir Francis Drake's flagship in the 1587 raid upon Cadiz? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who invented the cloud chamber? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Mandrill
🗑
|
||||
show | Molybdenum
🗑
|
||||
show | Sixteen
🗑
|
||||
show | Trinovantes
🗑
|
||||
show | Constanta
🗑
|
||||
Which Roman Emperor was responsible for Ovid's exile? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Arminius
🗑
|
||||
show | Denis Thatcher
🗑
|
||||
What does 'MHK' signify after a person's name? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | St Helena
🗑
|
||||
What are the names of Barack Obama's two daughters? | show 🗑
|
||||
How is Leo Bronstein better known to history? | show 🗑
|
||||
In what year were Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and Felix Mendelssohn all born? | show 🗑
|
||||
How did Mathias Rust create an international incident in 1987? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which year was The Battle of The Falaise Gap? | show 🗑
|
||||
Where did the Battle of The Falaise Gap take place? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which Chinese Emperor had the Terracotta Army created? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Deal
🗑
|
||||
show | 3rd century BCE
🗑
|
||||
What regnal number was held by Prince Rainier of Monaco, who died in 2005? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Albert II
🗑
|
||||
What is the family name of the Monegasque Royal Family? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Birendra
🗑
|
||||
show | Henri
🗑
|
||||
Who was the last King of Portugal? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which battle of 338BCE was the culmination of the Macedonian campaign in Greece, and led to a decisive victory for Philip II over the Greek city-states? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | III
🗑
|
||||
show | 32
🗑
|
||||
Who was the first ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt? | show 🗑
|
||||
From what original name is the Afghan city Kandahar's current name taken? | show 🗑
|
||||
The word 'stoic' derives from 'stoa' - the Ancient Greek for what structure? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which Shakespeare play does the line "things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing" come? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Sassanid
🗑
|
||||
show | Sengcan (or Sen Ts'an)
🗑
|
||||
show | Epictetus
🗑
|
||||
Whose debut album Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor set a new all-time Dutch chart record on 20 August 2010, spending its 30th week at number one on the country's albums chart, beating the previous record set by 'Thriller' by one week? | show 🗑
|
||||
In most classification systems, which three basic types of fingerprint exist? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Dermal papillae
🗑
|
||||
show | Bertillionage
🗑
|
||||
show | Nineveh (Assyrian capital)
🗑
|
||||
Give a year in the Jews' Babylonian Exile. | show 🗑
|
||||
What does IAFIS stand for in criminal investigations? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | California
🗑
|
||||
show | Melanesia
🗑
|
||||
Which area of the Pacific, named by Jules Dumont D'Urbville, lies north of Melanesia and encompasses Kiribati and Palau among others? | show 🗑
|
||||
The Bab-al-Mandab or Mandab strait separates which two countries? | show 🗑
|
||||
Sahul is an alternative name for which continent? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which biogeographical region of Southeastern Asia encompasses the part of the Asian continental shelf that was exposed during the last ice age? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Wallacea
🗑
|
||||
show | Bismarck archipelago
🗑
|
||||
show | Megiddo
🗑
|
||||
show | Bratislava
🗑
|
||||
Who were the first British football club to win a major European football competition? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which country changed its name from a republic to an empire in 1977 but has reverted to being a republic? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Henry Francis Lyte
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Under which pseudonym did Cecil Day-Lewis write detective stories? | show 🗑
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Which English monarch was murdered at Berkeley Castle? | show 🗑
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Ronald Ross won the 1902 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on which disease? | show 🗑
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To how many persons is membership of the Order of Merit limited? | show 🗑
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Which star of music hall was born George Edward Wade in Herne Hill in 1869? | show 🗑
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Which product had the advertising slogan: “You’ll look a little lovelier each day”? | show 🗑
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