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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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What is the capital of Utah?   show
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show Montpelier  
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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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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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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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show Montpellier  
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show The Wash  
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show The White House  
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show Tarn (France)  
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Run by communists from 1945-90, which is Italy's oldest university?   show
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Where is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology based?   show
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show Buxton  
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show Eight  
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What name is given to a pattern of stars in the night sky that may or may not be part of a constellation?   show
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Which sea lies between Russia and Alaska, North of the Bering Strait?   show
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show Russia  
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show Diomede Islands  
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After Texas and California, which is the third largest of the 'lower' 48 United States?   show
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In which 'sound' did the Exxon Valdez run aground in 1989, causing massive environmental damage from the resulting oil spill?   show
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Which inlet runs between the main part of Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula to Anchorage?   show
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In which US state is the greatest percentage of its inhabitants based in its most populous city?   show
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Discovered in 1968, which is the largest oil field in North America?   show
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In 1960, where was the epicentre of the largest measured earthquake in world history?   show
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show Alaska  
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show (American) Black Bear  
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show Kit  
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Which cetacean is the only member of the species monodontidae, bar the narwhal?   show
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Which climate classification system was first published by a Russian German climatologist in 1884?   show
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show Anchorage  
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In which century was Iceland's parliament, the Althing, founded?   show
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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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show St Paul  
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What is the fifth book of the New Testament?   show
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show Metallica  
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In December 2014, which medical procedure was carried out successfully for the first time at Stellenbosch University in South Africa?   show
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show Frei Otto  
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show Cyclone Pam  
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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
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The battle of Garnett & Golding's Farm was part of which wider conflict?   show
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show Malvinas Day  
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The Despenser war was a baronial revolt against which monarch?   show
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Samoset (c. 1590–1653) was the first Native American to make contact with who?   show
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In which year was the first F.A. Cup Final?   show
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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
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What was the nationality of soprano Joan Sutherland?   show
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show Jackson Browne  
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show Bob Dylan  
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What is the main ingredient of calvados?   show
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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  
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show Deep Purple, Rainbow  
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show Lohengrin  
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show Ponchielli  
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show Saint-Saens  
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"Rose-Marie" and "The Vagabond King" are the best-known pieces by which composer, upon whose work "The Donkey Serenade" was based?   show
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show Deep Purple  
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show Freyja  
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show Ragnarok  
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show Mjollnir  
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Who were Zeus' parents in Greek myth?   show
🗑
show Canned beer  
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Bundaberg rum originates from which country?   show
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Which herb's name comes from the Greek for "joy of the mountain"?   show
🗑
show Peach juice  
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show Clarinet  
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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  
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show Piano  
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show Patras, Greece  
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What was the first US #1 song by a UK artist?   show
🗑
In which activity might you sparge your wort?   show
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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
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Which popular Indian drink is made with yoghurt?   show
🗑
show Beecham  
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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  
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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  
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show Red Lead  
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Which gas is the main component of air?   show
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Which two metals comprise brass?   show
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Which two metals comprise bronze?   show
🗑
show Photochromic  
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Which breed of dog has a name meaning 'dwarf'?   show
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show Greyhound; collie  
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Which breed of dog famously has a black tongue?   show
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show Saltpeter  
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show Salts of Lemon  
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By what name is silicon carbide better known?   show
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show Sett; Earth  
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show 1778-1829  
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Humphry Davy discovered the anaesthetic properties of what?   show
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show Aqua Regia  
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show Silk weaving  
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show Neodymium  
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Who devised the early submarine 'Nautilus', in 1800?   show
🗑
show Gas stove  
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show Powdered Milk  
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What colour do acids and alkalis turn litmus paper?   show
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show Complementary  
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What name is given to angles that add up to 180 degrees?   show
🗑
show Reflex  
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show Asbestos  
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Who was Britain's first female cabinet minister?   show
🗑
show Maldives  
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show Audie Murphy  
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show Maggie Gyllenhaal  
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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  
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show HMS Bellerophon  
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How else was the 1794 naval action "Lord Howe's Action" known?   show
🗑
show Rihanna  
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David LaChapelle is a famous name in which field?   show
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What type of organism are the bolete family?   show
🗑
show Hugh Walpole  
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The term 'Christ' dervies from the Greek for what?   show
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show Syriac  
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show Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem  
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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  
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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  
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show Kimbanguism  
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What is the proper name of the religious group known as the 'Moonies'?   show
🗑
show Seoul (Yoido Full Gospel Church)  
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show Caravaggio  
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show Medea  
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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  
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show Dr Phil McGraw  
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show 480-524AD  
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show Sympathetic  
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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  
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show Up  
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show Park Chan-Wook  
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show Nick Hornby  
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show Kenickie  
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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  
🗑
Which fictional TV company had the telephone number 0161 7151515?   show
🗑
In October 2009, which politician appeared in Eastenders?   show
🗑
show Weatherfield Gazette  
🗑
In the original 1960s series, what is the prisoner's number?   show
🗑
In 'Twin Peaks', who killed Laura Palmer?   show
🗑
show Bikini Bottom  
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show Lassie  
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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)  
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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
🗑
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
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What was the first area in Britain to have been declared an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty?   show
🗑
show Caymans  
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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  
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show Guatemala  
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show Rhone  
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Which city is the 'Capital of the Gaidhealtachd'?   show
🗑
show Stewardship Of The Manor of Northstead  
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show Delaware  
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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  
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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  
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show 1959  
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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'  
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Margaret River is a wine-producing area in which country?   show
🗑
show Middlesex Street  
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show Great Abel  
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Which county cricket team's emblem is a white horse?   show
🗑
show Bobby Charlton  
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show 59  
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show Stade De France  
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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  
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show Hasim Rahman  
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show Walter Hagen  
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show Archery (on horseback)  
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show Three (1916, 1940, 1944)  
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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  
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show Geiger  
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show Alexander Nevsky  
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show Florence  
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show Wuxia  
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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
🗑
Which Gate marked the entrance to the original site of the Carlsberg brewery?   show
🗑
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
🗑
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
🗑
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
🗑
show Judo  
🗑
show Worm lizards (amphisbaenia)  
🗑
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  
🗑
From what Latin term does the word 'forensics' derive?   show
🗑
show Las Vegas, New York, Miami  
🗑
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  
🗑
show Amygdala  
🗑
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  
🗑
How many letters are used by the Greek alphabet?   show
🗑
show Alcibiades  
🗑
show Cynics  
🗑
Give a year in the life of Aristotle.   show
🗑
show 431-401BCE  
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show Delian League  
🗑
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  
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show Phaethon  
🗑
Which character in myth swam the Hellespont nightly to visit his lover?   show
🗑
show Circe  
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show Laocoon  
🗑
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  
🗑
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  
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show Bootes  
🗑
show Orion  
🗑
"Model White" and "Green Globe" are both varieties of which vegetable?   show
🗑
show Ambush  
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show Shrewdness  
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show Troop  
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What name is given to a star in heraldry   show
🗑
show Woodlice  
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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  
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show Common (English) oak  
🗑
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  
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show Drumlin  
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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  
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show Nottingham  
🗑
In which Cumbrian castle was Henry VIII's wife Catherine Parr born?   show
🗑
show Strickland  
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show Esthwaite  
🗑
show Bridgetown  
🗑
show Peso  
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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  
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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)  
🗑
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  
🗑
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  
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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  
🗑
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
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Which Australian-born actor came to fame playing the title role in 1935's "Captain Blood"?   show
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"Soubise", named after an 18th-century French aristocrat, is a sauce made from which vegetable?   show
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Which Canadian city was originally named 'Bytown'?   show
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show Sanssouci  
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show 17th (1613)  
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In which Booker Prize winning novel does the hero, Nick Guest, dance with Margaret Thatcher?   show
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show Sara Partesky  
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show Pisces  
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What is the primary metabolite of heroin?   show
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In chemistry, what name is given to the measure of the tendency of a substance to vaporize?   show
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What Latin phrase was used by Venetians to denote the land they controlled on the Italian mainland?   show
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show Massachussetts  
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Give a year during which Joe Louis held the World Heavyweight boxing title.   show
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show Dietmar Hamann  
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show Det Insp Lynley  
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show Victoria Cross  
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What word of Dutch origin meaning something used as a lure originally meant a place where wild ducks were enticed and then trapped?   show
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show Necromancer  
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show Dorchester  
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show PD James  
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show Mildred Pierce  
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show Turkey  
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show Montreal Expo  
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show Zinc  
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Which area of the brain, in the frontal lobe of the left hemisphere, is linked to speech production?   show
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What type of creature is an 'Aylesbury'?   show
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What name is given to an organism's complete set of genes?   show
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Which two members of the thrush family are winter visitors to the UK?   show
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show Mistletoe  
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show Ptarmigan  
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What are the six deer species found wild in the UK?   show
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The Lesser Celandine plant is also known by what name, based on the medical condition that it supposedly cures?   show
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Which crow has the scientific name 'corvus frugilegus'?   show
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The linnet is a member of which bird family?   show
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show Hen Harrier  
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What is Britain's smallest falcon?   show
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show Roof lizard  
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What is the SE Asian gavial?   show
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Cyomancy is the 'art' of telling the future using what?   show
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SMART-1 was the first European space probe to achieve what feat?   show
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show 2 years  
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In business, what does 'CIF' stand for?   show
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What name is given to the study of plant disease?   show
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show Chinese Walls  
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show Fusion  
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What name is given to the cup or trumpet of flowers such as the daffodil or narcissus?   show
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show Dot-dash  
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Which Morse code letter is the reverse of how 'A' is represented?   show
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What type of animal was the now-extinct 'Rodrigues solitaire'?   show
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show Sir Isaac Newton  
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show London and Paris (or pedantically, London and Dover, with the Calais to Paris stretch being via the 'Fleche D'Or)  
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What was the famous nickname of Joseph Hobson Jaggers?   show
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Whose principle can be used to predict the effect of a change in conditions upon a chemical equilibrium?   show
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Whose 'paradox' states that in a static, infinite universe the night sky should be bright?   show
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What was invented by John Harrison in 1735, after 31 years of persistent experimentation?   show
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What was the name of John Paul Jones' warship, that was blown in two and subsequently sank at the Battle of Flamborough Head?   show
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What name is given to a numbering system using Base 8?   show
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show English (as an) Additional Language  
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What does the educational acronym SEN stand for?   show
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show Osaka  
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What was the name of Sir Francis Drake's flagship in the 1587 raid upon Cadiz?   show
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Who invented the cloud chamber?   show
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show Mandrill  
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show Molybdenum  
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show Sixteen  
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show Trinovantes  
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show Constanta  
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Which Roman Emperor was responsible for Ovid's exile?   show
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show Arminius  
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show Denis Thatcher  
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What does 'MHK' signify after a person's name?   show
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show St Helena  
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What are the names of Barack Obama's two daughters?   show
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How is Leo Bronstein better known to history?   show
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In what year were Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and Felix Mendelssohn all born?   show
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How did Mathias Rust create an international incident in 1987?   show
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In which year was The Battle of The Falaise Gap?   show
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Where did the Battle of The Falaise Gap take place?   show
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Which Chinese Emperor had the Terracotta Army created?   show
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show Deal  
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show 3rd century BCE  
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What regnal number was held by Prince Rainier of Monaco, who died in 2005?   show
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show Albert II  
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What is the family name of the Monegasque Royal Family?   show
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show Birendra  
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show Henri  
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Who was the last King of Portugal?   show
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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
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show III  
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show 32  
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Who was the first ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt?   show
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From what original name is the Afghan city Kandahar's current name taken?   show
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The word 'stoic' derives from 'stoa' - the Ancient Greek for what structure?   show
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In which Shakespeare play does the line "things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing" come?   show
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show Sassanid  
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show Sengcan (or Sen Ts'an)  
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show Epictetus  
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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
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In most classification systems, which three basic types of fingerprint exist?   show
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show Dermal papillae  
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show Bertillionage  
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show Nineveh (Assyrian capital)  
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Give a year in the Jews' Babylonian Exile.   show
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What does IAFIS stand for in criminal investigations?   show
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show California  
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show Melanesia  
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Which area of the Pacific, named by Jules Dumont D'Urbville, lies north of Melanesia and encompasses Kiribati and Palau among others?   show
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The Bab-al-Mandab or Mandab strait separates which two countries?   show
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Sahul is an alternative name for which continent?   show
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Which biogeographical region of Southeastern Asia encompasses the part of the Asian continental shelf that was exposed during the last ice age?   show
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show Wallacea  
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show Bismarck archipelago  
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show Megiddo  
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show Bratislava  
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Who were the first British football club to win a major European football competition?   show
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Which country changed its name from a republic to an empire in 1977 but has reverted to being a republic?   show
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show Henry Francis Lyte  
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Under which pseudonym did Cecil Day-Lewis write detective stories?   show
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show Sartorius  
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show Brown  
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show Glover  
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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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