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show | German
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Which two architects built the Parthenon? | show 🗑
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A modern copy, by Alan LeQuire, of Athena Parthenos, a statue that formerly stood in the Parthenon, is now in which US city? | show 🗑
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show | Phidias
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show | Dionysus
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In myth, who was the father of the satyrs? | show 🗑
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In myth, who was the father of the physician god Aesclepius? | show 🗑
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show | Ares
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show | Pnyx
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show | Lombardy
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In which city is the Pergamon Museum? | show 🗑
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show | Rosa Luxemburg
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show | Alfred Döblin
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show | The Berlin Wall
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show | Brandenburg Gate
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show | Berthold Brecht
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show | The Heart of Midlothian
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Which US detective fiction author created the characters Derek Strange and Terry Quinn? | show 🗑
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show | James Ellroy
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Mentioned in Robert Copland's The Highway to the Spitalhouse (1535), and credited with having held a meeting with Giles Hather, at The Devils Arse Peak in Derbyshire to devise Thieves' Cant, who was this fictional "King Of The Gypsies"? | show 🗑
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show | Christmas Oratorio
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show | The Well-Tempered Clavier
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show | Capturing the Mares of Diomedes
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Chronologically, what was the ninth Labour of Hercules? | show 🗑
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show | South Pacific
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Which American director was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Director for his 1992 debut feature Alien 3? | show 🗑
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show | Innocent III
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show | Switzerland
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What is the name of the residence of the Scottish First Minister? | show 🗑
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show | David Wilkie
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show | Leeds/Bradford
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Portrayed by Miley Cyrus, which fictional schoolgirl led a double life as 'Hannah Montana'? | show 🗑
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Which family appeared in the US animated sitcom "Wait Til Your Father Gets Home"? | show 🗑
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show | Man About The House
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show | The Talented Mr Ripley
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Who dubbed Ursula Andress's singing voice in "Dr No"? | show 🗑
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show | Marcus Welby MD
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show | Madonna
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show | Berlin
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show | Caligula
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What group was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee? | show 🗑
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show | Lemar
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Most seen in Japan in which type of video game, aimed at females, generally has the goal, besides the main plot goal, to develop a romantic relationship between the female player character and one of several males? | show 🗑
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show | Royal Blood
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show | Circle
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show | Racial segregation
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show | Bioprospecting
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show | St Martin
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show | Warren Harding
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Which country is divided into 16 voivodeships? | show 🗑
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Old Father Time on a weather vane is a famous feature of which English cricket ground? | show 🗑
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show | Sussex
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show | Eight
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show | 1864
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show | Tennyson
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show | Mark Webber
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In cricket, what does ICC stand for? | show 🗑
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show | Canada USA
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Which English cricketer took a record 148 Ashes wickets? | show 🗑
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Who captained Australia's 1972 and 1974-5 Ashes teams? | show 🗑
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show | Norma McCarvey
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Who is the 'rogue economist' behind 'Freakonomics'? | show 🗑
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show | John Chapman
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show | Haifa
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show | William Claude
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show | Dukinfield
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show | Internal Revenue Service
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show | George W Bush
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From which film does the line "I coulda had class, I could've been a contender" feature? | show 🗑
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show | The Republic
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show | The Clansman
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Which American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator, and stage and motion picture actor was called "Oklahoma's favorite son"? | show 🗑
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Which American white nationalist, anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist, politician, and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan pled guilty in 2009 to defrauding supporters by falsely claiming to have no money in order to solicit emergency donations? | show 🗑
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Who was the 106th Mayor of New York City, from 1990 to 1993, replaced by Rudolph Giuliani? | show 🗑
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show | Canada
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show | DuPont
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show | Crack cocaine
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On which date were the Ceausescus of Romania executed after a crude trial? | show 🗑
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Bloodshed in which city, after anti-government protests, on 17th and 18th December 1989 helped bring down the Ceausescu regime - the name of the city was chanted by the crowd during Nicolae Ceausescu's famous aborted speech on the 21st? | show 🗑
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show | Black Disciples
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On which exact date did Charlemagne become the first Holy Roman Emperor? | show 🗑
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Which king is believed to have had the Hanging Gardens of Babylon built? | show 🗑
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Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialogue of which language? | show 🗑
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In which sport has the Gordon Bennett cup been awarded since 1906? | show 🗑
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show | British Racing Green
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What species of tree was the one that was chopped down by George Washington in the popular "I cannot tell a lie, father" legend? | show 🗑
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Which basketball legend was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. on April 16, 1947? | show 🗑
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Which statistical process helps one see how the typical value of the dependent variable ('criterion variable') changes when any one of the independent variables is varied, while other independent variables are held fixed? | show 🗑
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show | 121-180
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Give a year in the life of philosopher Epicurus. | show 🗑
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show | Fats Waller
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Over which body of water was Glenn Miller flying when he disappeared? | show 🗑
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In which country was French-Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt born, in 1910? | show 🗑
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Which style of jazz developed in the early 1940s in the USA, features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure? | show 🗑
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Which jazz musician got his nickname from chasing chickens as a youngster? | show 🗑
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show | Huddie Ledbetter
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show | Trumpet
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show | Scat Singing
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show | Eartha Kitt
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show | Nick Hornby
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show | William IV
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show | Suti/suttee
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show | Henry III
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show | The Tabernacle
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What was the name given to the Christian neo-Gnostic or dualist religiopolitical sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Tsar Peter I in the 10th century? | show 🗑
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Which Persian polymath (839–923 AD) is best known for his commentary on the Quran that bears his name, but also wrote on such subjects as poetry, lexicography, grammar, ethics, mathematics, and medicine? | show 🗑
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show | HP Lovecraft
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Who were the two consorts of Edward I? | show 🗑
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show | Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
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Which controversial artefact was seized by Edward I in 1296, and not returned until nearly 700 years later? | show 🗑
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show | Lamashtu
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show | Lilith
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show | Helena/St Helen
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Which five-letter word is a fine-grained silica-rich microcrystalline, cryptocrystalline or microfibrous sedimentary rock that may contain small fossils? | show 🗑
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show | Pleistocene
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show | Desolation Islands
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Among the most isolated places on Earth, located 450 km (280 mi) northwest of the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands and more than 3,300 km (2,051 mi) away from the nearest populated location, which country owns the Kerguelen Islands? | show 🗑
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Which Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist who called for political reforms and the end of communist single-party rule won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010? | show 🗑
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Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922) owned which two newspapers? | show 🗑
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show | Lockheed
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A powerful and influential woman with a reputation for promiscuity, she allegedly conspired against her husband and was executed on the discovery of the plot - Messalina was the wife of which Roman Emperor? | show 🗑
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Considered by some the greatest of all Arab poets, he appears several times in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, who (756-815CE) was companion to the caliph Haroun al-Rashid? | show 🗑
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Prior to the civil war, what was the most populous city in Syria? | show 🗑
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Which major river leaves Lake Geneva and flows through Lyon? | show 🗑
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Which famous man owned Manoir de Ban, Vevey, Switzerland, where there is now a museum dedicated to him? | show 🗑
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show | Le Corbusier
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The town of Gruyeres, from which the cheese Gruyere, is in which Swiss canton? | show 🗑
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In which century was the Corinth Canal completed? | show 🗑
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Recognised as a World Heritage Site in 1999, the archaeological site Tiryns was an important city in which civilisation? | show 🗑
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show | Greek Dark Ages
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show | Felix Holt
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How is the 'macula lutea' in the eye also known? | show 🗑
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Which hormone is produced by the corpus luteum, the spheroid body that grows within the ruptured ovarian follicle after ovulation? | show 🗑
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show | Streptomycin
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show | Dent station (Cumbria)
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Which mountain in central Italy gives its name to the large particle physics laboratory located within it, opened in 1989 and involved with the search for dark matter? | show 🗑
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What is the Chinese name of the Yellow River? | show 🗑
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Which novel by George Eliot features a brother and sister who grow up near the village of St Oggs? | show 🗑
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Which phenomenon, named for a mountain in the German Harz range, involves an elongated shadow of the observer, often bearing a halo, being cast on a layer of cloud? | show 🗑
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show | Mount Wilson
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Who wrote the 17th-century work "Grace Abounding"? | show 🗑
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show | Macular degeration
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show | Barbados
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show | Myopia/short-sightedness
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show | Emile Durkheim
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show | Conchoid curve
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What name for a devil, or Satan himself, was originally found in a German legend about a scholar who gives his soul to the Devil in return for unlimited knowledge? | show 🗑
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Which French engineer and inventor is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths? | show 🗑
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show | Nicolas Poussin
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The 1927 painting "Automat" which portrays a lone woman staring into a cup of coffee is a famed work by whom? | show 🗑
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show | Bumping
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In classical theology, which Latin term means the adulation given to God alone? | show 🗑
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show | California
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"Olive Grove, Orange Sky" is a work by which famous artist? | show 🗑
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The Roman city of Lugdunum is better known today as which European city? | show 🗑
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show | Beltane
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show | Epictetus
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Which term was prefigured by a collection of twelve books published in 1910, funded by the brothers Milton & Lyman Stewart, but coined by Curtis Lee Lawes, who proposed it after the 1920 pre-convention meeting of the Northern Baptists? | show 🗑
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show | South Sandwich Islands
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show | George III (UK)
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The French and Indian War began after a dispute over which river valley, seen by the French as a vital link between their colonies, but which the British were awarding land grants in? | show 🗑
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What is the most populous city to be located mainly on a river island in the world? | show 🗑
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Fort Duquesne, established by the French in 1754, was located on the site of the downtown of which city? | show 🗑
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Which Major led the mainly British forces that surrendered after the Battle of Fort Necessity in 1754? | show 🗑
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The novel 'Hotel Du Lac' by Anita Brookner, than won the Booker Prize in 1984, was set in a hotel on the shores of which lake? | show 🗑
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Who wrote the Booker Prize winning novel "A History Of Seven Killings"? | show 🗑
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show | North Face of the Eiger
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show | Olympique Marseilles
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show | Taiwan
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Which two-word name refers to the failed British military expedition which attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne in the summer of 1755 during the French and Indian War, ending with defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9? | show 🗑
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Which Old Testament prophet was carried to heaven on a fiery chariot? | show 🗑
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show | Archdeacon
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Who was the lead singer of the 1960s band The Animals? | show 🗑
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Who released the 1976 album "The Song Remains The Same"? | show 🗑
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What is tisane? | show 🗑
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show | Lime
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show | Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
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show | György Ligeti
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Who was the Roman goddess of war? | show 🗑
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What specific event is celebrated by Lady Day? | show 🗑
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Which item was invented in a primitive form by Whitcomb Judson in 1891, and perfected by Gideon Sundback in 1913? | show 🗑
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Which company used the slogan "impossible is nothing"? | show 🗑
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What does the 'S' stand for in 'UNESCO'? | show 🗑
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show | John Bunyan
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show | A fathom
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Babouches, also known as balgha, are which item of clothing in North Africa? | show 🗑
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show | Thomas Wolfe
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show | Benin
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"Luck Be A Lady" features in which musical? | show 🗑
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show | Martin Ryle
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show | Land's End
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Which river runs through Coventry, albeit now mainly underground? | show 🗑
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Which island in the Firth of Clyde supplies granite for curling stones? | show 🗑
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How many members are there in the Scottish Parliament, as of April 2016? | show 🗑
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show | Sixty
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What is the abbreviation used for members of the Welsh Assembly? | show 🗑
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Who was the first West Indian cricketer to win 100 caps? | show 🗑
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show | Harry Vardon
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The Val Barker trophy is awarded to the Olympics' star performer in which sport? | show 🗑
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Prior to Andy Murray, who was the last British tennis player to win the pre-Wimbledon tournament at Queens? | show 🗑
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show | Celtic Warriors
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show | Parma
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What first for the Pro 12 rugby tournament (or its predecessors) was recorded on the 30th October 2015 by Llanelli Scarlets players Jacob Cowley and Regan King? | show 🗑
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show | Jerry Lee Lewis
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Whose award-winning 2005 autobiography Extreme describes her difficult childhood as daughter of ruthless music mogul Don Arden? | show 🗑
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Singer–songwriter John Phillips, with whom his daughter Mackenzie claimed to have had a prolonged, drug-fuelled, incestuous relationship, was a member of which chart-topping sixties band? | show 🗑
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n a four-stroke engine, which component transfers motion from the piston to the crankshaft? | show 🗑
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Reflecting the inherent dangers of the design, what two-word term is used for motor vehicle doors that are hinged at the rear? | show 🗑
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The ESP on a car was designed by which company? | show 🗑
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show | Phosphorus
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Which patriotic Cuban song became a hit in the United States when The Sandpipers took their version - based on an arrangement by Pete Seeger - in to the top 10 in the Billboard Hot 100? | show 🗑
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A painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts which muse of Giovanni Boccaccio? She was the titular subject of his 1344 novel and is mentioned frequently in The Decameron. | show 🗑
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show | Istanbul
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Which international brand of seasonings, instant soups, and noodles that originated in Switzerland was acquired by Nestlé in 1947? | show 🗑
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show | Millers Crossing
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show | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
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Named after the city in which the shogunate was established by Japan's first shogun, Minamoto no Yoritomo, in 1192, which period of Japanese history ended in 1333 with the short re-establishment of imperial rule under Emperor Go-Daigo? | show 🗑
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show | William James
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show | The Common Linnets
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Adermatoglyphia is a rare genetic disorder which causes a person to lack… what? | show 🗑
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show | Diesel Engine Road Vehicle
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show | Elephant bird
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show | France
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An asterisk appears on which computer key? | show 🗑
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show | Electronic Data Processing
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Jack Lemmon played CC Baxter in which film of 1960, produced and directed by Billy Wilder? | show 🗑
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Max Bialystock is a character from which film? | show 🗑
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show | The Lost Weekend
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Played by Humphrey Bogart, who is the café owner in Casablanca? | show 🗑
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show | James Coburn
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show | Dalziel & Pascoe
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Mickey Rooney co-starred with which female icon in ten films from 1937 to 1949? | show 🗑
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show | Spartacus/Topkapi
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show | All The President's Men/Julie
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show | Easy Rider
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show | Goodnight
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Which US actor was one half of "The Persuaders"? | show 🗑
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Which British actor was one half of "The Persuaders"? | show 🗑
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Who was the action hero actor in 1992's "Passenger 57"? | show 🗑
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show | Steven Spielberg
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One of the official languages of South Africa, which Bantu language is characterised by 'clicking'? | show 🗑
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Saginaw Bay is on which of the Great Lakes? | show 🗑
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show | Blue and White
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First broadcasting in 1984, where in the UK is Viking FM? | show 🗑
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show | Cadiz
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On which Spanish 'Costa' are Benidorm and Alicante? | show 🗑
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The third largest cities in both Spain and Venezuela share which name? | show 🗑
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Which US state was once named Franklin? | show 🗑
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show | Physiology or Medicine
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show | King of Sweden
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Ford Madox Brown spent the latter years of his life painting murals that depicted the history of which city, for its town hall? | show 🗑
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Which poet wrote the famous poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade"? | show 🗑
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show | Samuel Smiles
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Which modern-day philosopher wrote "The Pleasures and Sorrows Of Work"? | show 🗑
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Who wrote "Blott On The Landscape"? | show 🗑
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show | Two dogs
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show | Katsushika Hokusai
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Who does Katherina marry in "The Taming Of The Shrew"? | show 🗑
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Who wrote the classic novel "Heidi"? | show 🗑
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Balthasar and Stefano are servants of which Shakespeare character? | show 🗑
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show | Chereme
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In which month was Martin Luther King Jr assassinated? | show 🗑
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show | Australia
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For what is the DSM an abbreviation, in psychiatry? | show 🗑
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Moise Tshombe was President of which province when it declared independence in 1960? | show 🗑
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show | Musca, Microscopium, Monoceros, Mensa
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show | The Odd Couple (Neil Simon)
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show | Swastika
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Gerald Holtom designed which symbol from an amalgamation of two semaphore signals? | show 🗑
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show | The KLF
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Featuring prominently on the coins and banknotes of both Burma and Sri Lanka, which lion-like creature gave its name to the Chindits - statues of it are commonly seen at the entrances of pagodas and temples? | show 🗑
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show | Phloem
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Which people who, unlike most Russians, speak a Uralic language, rather more related to Finnish than to Slavic languages such as Russian, are the most red-headed people in the World? | show 🗑
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show | Rachel Dolezal
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The 2015 NBA Finals was won by the Golden State Warriors, who beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 4-2. In which city are the Golden State Warriors based? | show 🗑
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The four official languages of Singapore are English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, and which other? | show 🗑
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show | Chisanbop
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Which American actress, a star of 'Raging Bull' and 'The Commish', is often credited with bringing the crime of stalking to wider public attention after surviving a murder attempt made against her by an obsessed fan? | show 🗑
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The murder of which actress from the CBS sitcom "My Sister Sam" in 1989 helped prompt the 1990 passage of America's first anti-stalking laws, in California? | show 🗑
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Also popular in parts of the Middle East, which Greek pastries - with a name deriving from the Turkish for 'morsel' - are made of deep fried dough soaked in honey or sugar syrup and cinnamon? | show 🗑
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St Petersburg's "Bronze Horseman" statue, one of the symbols of the city, depicts who? | show 🗑
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show | James McNeill Whistler
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show | USS Monitor
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show | 1853
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In which year did the Crimean War end? | show 🗑
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show | (1856) Treaty of Paris
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show | Alfred Nobel
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Who, unusually, won the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously, in 1931? | show 🗑
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King Oscar II was king of which European country from 18 September 1872 to his death on 8 December 1907? | show 🗑
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What nationality is Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura, appointed in 2016 as FIFA's first female secretary general? | show 🗑
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show | Patagonia
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show | Pennsylvania
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show | Samoa, Papua New Guinea
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Which historic county is now part of Cambridgeshire? | show 🗑
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show | Sydney
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Ernest Hemingway once remarked that there were three sports, and all the rest were merely games. Motor racing and bullfighting were three of his 'sports' - what was the third? | show 🗑
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show | Leviathan (Hobbes)
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show | Bentham
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A close, but possibly platonic relationship with a Mrs Harriet Taylor, before marriage in 1851 upon the death of her first husband, was central to which philosopher's beliefs that women were being unfairly excluded from civil life? | show 🗑
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show | Ashworth or Rampton
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|
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The Nore, site of a notorious 1797 mutiny, is a sandbank at the mouth of which river? | show 🗑
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||||
Founded in 1843, in which town or city is Arkell's Brewery? | show 🗑
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show | Manama
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show | Bantamweight
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show | Strawweight
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show | Coins
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|
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How many cards are used per person in a game of bezique? | show 🗑
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||||
Which playing cards are not used in a game of bezique? | show 🗑
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show | Kieselguhr
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show | Medium-density fibreboard
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|
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In which English county is Goodwood, home to the racecourse and motor-racing Festival of Speed? | show 🗑
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show | Belvoir Castle
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|
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Which company, founded in 1991, is based in Malmesbury Wiltshire? | show 🗑
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||||
Which English city's main railway station once had the suffix "Thorpe", until 1969? | show 🗑
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||||
How is the group founded as the London Festival Ballet now known? | show 🗑
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show | Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, UK
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|
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Who founded The Royal Ballet in 1931? | show 🗑
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Stephen Joseph Theatre is a theatre in the round in which English town? | show 🗑
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||||
Who was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who painted Black on Maroon, a painting that was defaced by Polish national Wlodzimierz Umaniec in 2012? | show 🗑
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||||
The Luangwa River is one of the major tributaries of the Zambezi River, and one of the four biggest rivers of which country? | show 🗑
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show | Kafue
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|
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Who wrote "Revolutionary Road" in 1961, their debut novel? | show 🗑
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Give a year in the life of Geoffrey Chaucer. | show 🗑
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show | Sarah Siddons
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According to Samuel Johnson, which actor "made his profession respectable"? | show 🗑
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show | Broderie Anglaise
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show | Thomas Hardy
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|
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How is the body of water once called the Hellespont now better known? | show 🗑
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||||
The Khalkha people are the largest subgroup of which larger ethnic group? | show 🗑
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Who did Henry Vi of England marry? | show 🗑
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show | Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
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In which building did Henry VI of England die? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which skirmish of 22 May 1455 signalled the start of the Wars of the Roses? | show 🗑
|
||||
At which 12 October 1459, largely bloodless battle in the Wars of the Roses resulted in a temporary setback for the Yorkists? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which battle fought on 10 July 1460 was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses and saw Henry Vi captured? | show 🗑
|
||||
At which battle of 1460, during the Wars of the Roses, was Richard, Duke of York, killed? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which year did Ireland leave the Commonwealth? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which castle in Somerset near Yeovil, actually a Bronze and Iron Age hillfort, is associated with the legend of King Arthur? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Geoffrey of Monmouth
🗑
|
||||
show | Sussex
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|
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show | Navratilova
🗑
|
||||
Who retired from international rugby following the 2011 Rugby World Cup as the most-capped South African player ever, with 111 appearances? | show 🗑
|
||||
In June 2006, who came off the bench for the Australia rugby union team in the second half of the second Test in Melbourne against England as he earned his 120th international cap - setting a then new world record? He eventually received 139 caps. | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Richie McCaw
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|
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show | Tottenham Hotspur (who were not league members until 1908)
🗑
|
||||
show | Charles Dumas
🗑
|
||||
Set in 1993, who as of 2016 still holds the men's high jump record? | show 🗑
|
||||
Preston hold the record for the highest score ever in an FA Cup match as of 2016 - who did they beat 26-0 back in 1887? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Freddie Starr
🗑
|
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show | Madrid
🗑
|
||||
Who reigned over Spain between 1598 to 1621? | show 🗑
|
||||
From the Portuguese for meaning "act of faith" what was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition had decided their punishment of an individual? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Lope de Vega
🗑
|
||||
Which one-word title is the name given to individual Moors or Muslims of Al-Andalus who remained in Iberia after the Christian Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Battle of Pavia
🗑
|
||||
show | Mozarabs
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|
||||
show | Barefoot Royals
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|
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show | Alfonso XIII
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|
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show | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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|
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show | Rick Allen
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|
||||
show | Tristan Und Isolde
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|
||||
show | Verbunkos
🗑
|
||||
Who was the mythical Norse queen of the underworld, where she receives a proportion of the dead? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Michael Lagrande
🗑
|
||||
Who was the only English Pope? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who sung the version of "Softly, Softly" that reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in February and March 1955? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Voluntary
🗑
|
||||
show | Aniseed
🗑
|
||||
Which line divides area of sunlight and darkness on the moon? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Bilharzia
🗑
|
||||
Which tree has the Latin name 'Acer Pseudoplatanus'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Golden eagle
🗑
|
||||
show | Redwing
🗑
|
||||
show | Avogadro's
🗑
|
||||
Vulcanisation involves treating rubber with which element? | show 🗑
|
||||
In law, what name is given to a court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts? | show 🗑
|
||||
How is a 'primula veris' better known? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Spain (but modern domesticated breed is Australian)
🗑
|
||||
How many zeroes are there in a British trillion? | show 🗑
|
||||
Between 1536 and 1830, Hungarian monarchs were crowned in St Martin's Cathedral in which city? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Yeshiva
🗑
|
||||
Which capital city was called Alis Ubbo (Delightful Shore) by the Phoenecians? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which saint, who lived in the 4th Century, is best known for the account of his using his military sword to cut his cloak in two, to give half to a beggar clad only in rags in the depth of winter, an event often depicted in art? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Moses Sofer/Chatam Sofer/Moses Schreiber
🗑
|
||||
In 1255, Lisbon became the capital of Portugal after the court was moved from which town or city? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which year was there a devastating November 1st earthquake in Lisbon that, along with the resulting fires and tsunami, killed up to one-third of the city's inhabitants? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Bratislava
🗑
|
||||
show | (Dom) Carlos I
🗑
|
||||
The Krubera Cave, the world's deepest, is to be found in which largely-unrecognised breakaway republic? | show 🗑
|
||||
Drill and poplin are both types of what? | show 🗑
|
||||
Josephine Cochrane introduced the first commercially successful example of what in 1896? | show 🗑
|
||||
What name is given to turning boats onto their sides to clean or repair them? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Florence Nightingale
🗑
|
||||
SU, Weber and Zenith are all types of which engine component? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Air Conditioning
🗑
|
||||
show | Orrery
🗑
|
||||
In motoring, what is an OHC? | show 🗑
|
||||
Basting, loop and saddle are all types of what? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who did Elizabeth Fry replace on the British £5 note in 2002? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The Vaccines
🗑
|
||||
show | Isla St Clair
🗑
|
||||
Who wrote the play "Abigail's Party"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Debussy
🗑
|
||||
Who kills Hamlet in the Shakespeare play? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Jennifer Capriati?
🗑
|
||||
show | Sagittarius
🗑
|
||||
Jigme Thinley became, in 2008, the first democratically elected PM of which country? | show 🗑
|
||||
What letter would indicate the cold bath tap in Germany? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 1973
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|
||||
show | An axe
🗑
|
||||
Which sport has positions called point, cover point, 3rd man, 2nd home and 1st home? | show 🗑
|
||||
A caddy spoon is used for measuring out which leaves? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Wiltshire
🗑
|
||||
show | 2005
🗑
|
||||
show | Pakistan
🗑
|
||||
In 2016 who became the first athlete to run under 10 seconds for the 100m, 20 seconds for the 200m and 44 seconds for 400m? | show 🗑
|
||||
The knitting abbreviation YRN stands for what? | show 🗑
|
||||
In professional boxing which weight division is between light heavyweight and heavyweight? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The Wright Stuff
🗑
|
||||
Silvaner and Rotgipfler are varieties of which fruit? | show 🗑
|
||||
What type of hat is traditionally worn with white tie dress? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which UK singer had a 2015 hit with "On My Mind"? | show 🗑
|
||||
How is Terry Gene Bollea better known? | show 🗑
|
||||
In 1965, who was the first footballer to be knighted? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Amelie Mauresmo
🗑
|
||||
show | Silk
🗑
|
||||
show | Vodka
🗑
|
||||
show | Carnassials
🗑
|
||||
Who won Olympic Men's 100m gold in 1964? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Klay Thompson
🗑
|
||||
show | Edward II
🗑
|
||||
Reverend Elijah Craig is credited with inventing which alcoholic drink? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which British girl band released the 2013 single "Move", after having a 2012 Number 1 with "Wings"? | show 🗑
|
||||
A St Martin's Summer is unusually warm weather in which month? | show 🗑
|
||||
Spencer Matthews came to prominence on which UK 'constructed reality' show? | show 🗑
|
||||
In 1889, the Eiffel Tower replaced what as the world's tallest structure? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Nicki Minaj
🗑
|
||||
show | Diego
🗑
|
||||
show | Iberian
🗑
|
||||
Micheline Roquebrune (b 1929) a French artist was the second wife of which Oscar winner who celebrated his 80th birthday in August 2010? | show 🗑
|
||||
t carries 2 million passengers a year and each single trip lasts less than 90 seconds; which highly distinctive (and frankly unusual) part of the Paris Metro requires a separate ticket? | show 🗑
|
||||
Created by Marvel comics, what first is claimed by Northstar, a French-Canadian mutant who revealed himself in 1992? | show 🗑
|
||||
Established circa 7,000 years ago, which Lebanese city, founded as Gebal by the Phoenicians, got its current name from the ancient Greeks, who imported its papyrus? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | John "The Quietman" Ruiz (WBA)
🗑
|
||||
Which country has the most products with protected origin status in the EU? | show 🗑
|
||||
Between AD 195, when Septimius Severus sacked and re-built the city, and AD 330 when Constantine selected it as the capital of New Rome, by what name was Byzantium /Constantinople/Istanbul known? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Jacques Audiard
🗑
|
||||
Sometimes combined with silk or polyester to create a textile fabric which is lightweight and looks like linen; piña is a fibre made from the leaves of which plant? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which stretch of water separates Africa and Madagascar? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which is Oxford University's oldest college? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which is the largest theatre in London's West End? | show 🗑
|
||||
Where in the UK is the fort of Vindolanda located? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which river runs into North Sea at Felixstowe? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which 5x weekly government bulletin was founded in 1665? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Barrio
🗑
|
||||
The Eduskunta is the parliament of which country? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Tanzania (East Africa)
🗑
|
||||
show | Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron
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|
||||
show | Berkshire
🗑
|
||||
show | Bedford
🗑
|
||||
What is the capital of Malawi? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the currency of Myanmar? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the official language of Haiti? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Blackburn
🗑
|
||||
show | Alloa
🗑
|
||||
show | Wolverhampton
🗑
|
||||
show | Noumea
🗑
|
||||
What unit of currency is used in Bangladesh? | show 🗑
|
||||
As of 2016, which town is home to Stray FM? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Richard Johnson
🗑
|
||||
In the standard ranking for hands of poker, which hand of five cards comes immediately above two pairs? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Seb Coe
🗑
|
||||
show | Amy Fearn
🗑
|
||||
show | Cleethorpes
🗑
|
||||
Which city, with a population of 4 million, is the seventh largest in India and the second largest in Maharashtra after Mumbai? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Courtney Walsh
🗑
|
||||
Which boxer, nicknamed 'Golden Boy', in 1967, fought for both the British and European titles, losing to Henry Cooper (Great Britain) and Karl Mildenberger (West Germany) respectively? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the other common name for the garden flower echinacea? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the surname of the French classical music piano soloist sisters, Katia (b. 1950) and Marielle (b. 1952)? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | One shilling
🗑
|
||||
show | Nicole Kidman
🗑
|
||||
show | Harold Macmillan
🗑
|
||||
The body of which US President, who died in 1885, lies in Riverside Park in Manhattan, in the largest mausoleum in North America? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Wally
🗑
|
||||
In classical mythology, of what was Plutus, (not to be confused with Pluto), the God? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Derek Thompson
🗑
|
||||
To travel from Manhattan to new Jersey, one may ride the PATH train. For what does the H in PATH stand? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who chaired the convention, which was established by the European Council in December 2001, to produce a draft Constitution for the European Union? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | On the River Dee
🗑
|
||||
Who eventually broke Bob Beamon's 23 year-old long jump record, in 1991? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Chimimanda NGOZI ADICHIE
🗑
|
||||
show | Sweden
🗑
|
||||
show | Gaborone
🗑
|
||||
show | Nawal El Saadawi
🗑
|
||||
show | A very close friend
🗑
|
||||
show | A fish
🗑
|
||||
show | Dictionary of American Regional English
🗑
|
||||
show | The Lads or The Youth
🗑
|
||||
Which Belfast-born actor has appeared in such films as Veronica Guerin, There Will Be Blood, and Munich, and played Dumbledore's brother Aberforth in the last Harry Potter film? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Roller Hockey
🗑
|
||||
This anti-injury indoor team sport was developed in the 1970s by Swiss biologist Hermann Brandt, who believed that "The objective of all physical activities is not to make champions, but make a contribution to building a harmonious society"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Floorball
🗑
|
||||
Duathlons involve what two sports? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Causeway Bay
🗑
|
||||
What famous bet about the prices of commodities from 1980 to 1990 was lost by Paul Ehrlich? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Coronal plane
🗑
|
||||
New Zealander Susan Devoy dominated the women's version of what sport in the 1980s? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Jimmy Jump
🗑
|
||||
show | Ostankino Tower
🗑
|
||||
show | The Cossacks
🗑
|
||||
Which man, (24 June 1909 – 3 March 1991), an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College, led the British effort to build a nuclear bomb in the late 1940s? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Lulu
🗑
|
||||
Which Polish national hero is commemorated by an artificial mound in Krakow? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Arnold Böcklin
🗑
|
||||
show | Augustus the Strong
🗑
|
||||
What is the Hebrew term for the highest form of exclusion from the Jewish community? It happened to Spinoza, and to Trotsky when he became a communist. | show 🗑
|
||||
Who (c. 1217 – c. 1255) founded the Mali Empire? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Piero Manzoni
🗑
|
||||
show | Pombal
🗑
|
||||
What French word means to decorate an object with coloured scraps of paper as well as paint? The cubists used this technique by clipping newspapers and putting them into collages. | show 🗑
|
||||
Who founded Jainism? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Empress of Ireland
🗑
|
||||
Loosely translated to mean stoic determination, grit, bravery, guts, resilience, perseverance and hardiness, 'sisu' is a word expressing the historic self-identified national character of which county? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is Nathan Ames credited with patenting for the first time in 1859? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which city was founded by Caliph Al-Mansur in the year 762? | show 🗑
|
||||
What language gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language around the turn of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which Chinese bank by total assets and by market capitalization, known by a four-letter acronym, is the world's largest? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Trinidad and Tobago
🗑
|
||||
What is the Greek for small envelope, and refers to the culture of bribes in the country? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Dean Court
🗑
|
||||
show | Crown Ground
🗑
|
||||
show | The Cherries
🗑
|
||||
show | Pirelli Stadium
🗑
|
||||
show | Whaddon Road
🗑
|
||||
The Darlington Arena was once named for which man, later convicted of money laundering? | show 🗑
|
||||
Richard III reigned for how many complete years? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Anne Neville
🗑
|
||||
show | Dogger Bank Incident
🗑
|
||||
Which 1807-14 war was fought in Iberia against the forces of Napoleon? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Neil Gaiman
🗑
|
||||
show | Peter Capaldi
🗑
|
||||
show | John Thomson
🗑
|
||||
show | Rachel Burden
🗑
|
||||
show | Lana Turner
🗑
|
||||
Who was Mia Farrow's mother? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which film starred Jane Fonda as 'number 67'? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who directed the 1972 film "Cabaret"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Joel Grey
🗑
|
||||
show | 77 Sunset Strip
🗑
|
||||
Seven pairs of birds, and seven pairs of animals that fell into what other criteria were, according to the Bible, taken on board Noah's Ark? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 150
🗑
|
||||
show | A dragon
🗑
|
||||
show | Benedict XV
🗑
|
||||
show | John Bonham
🗑
|
||||
With who did WH Auden collaborate on 'Paul Bunyan'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Eight
🗑
|
||||
show | Ten
🗑
|
||||
show | Compasses
🗑
|
||||
show | Pathfinder
🗑
|
||||
What was revoked at Fontainebleau Chateau in 1685, with the new Edict of Fontainebleau? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 32
🗑
|
||||
show | Babylon
🗑
|
||||
Yon Sosa and Turcios Lima were rebel leaders in which country in the 1960s? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 1703
🗑
|
||||
show | Hadrian
🗑
|
||||
Generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history, which battle took place between 23–26 October 1944? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Rightful King
🗑
|
||||
show | 1952
🗑
|
||||
show | 1972
🗑
|
||||
show | Romania
🗑
|
||||
show | 1919 (not 1918)
🗑
|
||||
show | Franz Josef
🗑
|
||||
After whom (February 13, 1258 – August 1/9, 1326) was the Ottoman Empire named? | show 🗑
|
||||
In which decade was the dual monarchy of Austro-Hungary born? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which Russian tsar was assassinated on 13 March 1881? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which First World War Imperial German Naval victory over the Royal Navy took place on 1 November 1914? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | December 1903
🗑
|
||||
In which war was the first successful use of a submarine to sink an enemy vessel? | show 🗑
|
||||
What were originally known as landships? | show 🗑
|
||||
Sweetbreads are traditionally made from which two animal glands? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The Salvation Army
🗑
|
||||
show | Niobe
🗑
|
||||
show | Maria Callas
🗑
|
||||
Tofu is made from which type of beans? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which restaurant in Hammersmith and Fulham was owned and run by chefs Ruth Rogers (wife of Richard) and Rose Gray until Gray's death in 2010? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Two violas, a violin and a cello
🗑
|
||||
Which musical, by Stephen Sondheim, is set in Sweden around the year 1900? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Freeze-drying
🗑
|
||||
show | Marigolds
🗑
|
||||
show | Bananas Foster
🗑
|
||||
What is the alternative one-word name for black cumin? | show 🗑
|
||||
Including fruits such as the peach, what is the botanical term for an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone,) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Chocolate
🗑
|
||||
show | Boysenberry
🗑
|
||||
show | Edward Elgar
🗑
|
||||
What was the fate of the Jew who taunted Jesus on his way to Calvary, according to the Bible and to tradition? | show 🗑
|
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show | Prior
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show | Chickpea
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What connects the eighth book of the Old Testament with the seventeenth? | show 🗑
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Who is the only apostle whose mother-in-law is mentioned in the Bible? | show 🗑
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show | Has the best parts
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show | St Peter
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show | Lutz Bachmann
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Which traditional dessert from Sicily consists of round sponge cake moistened with fruit juices or liqueur and layered with ricotta cheese, candied peel, and a chocolate or vanilla filling similar to cannoli cream? | show 🗑
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show | Your troubles
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show | Please Please Me
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show | James and John
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show | Chess
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show | Offal or tripe
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Which word for a soup is also a handicapping method in both croquet and real tennis? | show 🗑
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show | Copenhagen
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The 2008 album "Stainless Style" by Neon Neon is about the rise and fall of which man? | show 🗑
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show | Catherine de Medici
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What is the smallest nation by size in the Americas? | show 🗑
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What is the correct name of Jodrell Bank? | show 🗑
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What is the USA's largest Native American reservation? | show 🗑
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||||
Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfendari and Gus Hansen are all names associated with which game? | show 🗑
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||||
Lisahally, once the site of multiple U-boat moorings at the end of WW2, is near which British city? | show 🗑
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||||
The Brockman family were the central characters in which BBC sitcom? | show 🗑
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Attracting 17m viewers at its peak which 1969-76 UK TV series featured Gerald Harper as the titular "perfect squire, paternalistically careful of his tenantry's welfare, beloved in the village, respected in the council"? | show 🗑
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show | Switzerland
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show | Lucky
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In 1967, the first BBC local radio station was set up in which city? | show 🗑
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||||
Which actress, 1908-89, was reportedly Disney's first choice to play Mary Poppins? | show 🗑
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show | Frank Sinatra
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|
||||
Who spoke the only word in Mel Brooks' film "Silent Movie"? | show 🗑
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||||
The spaceship 'Nostromo' appears in which film of the 1970s? | show 🗑
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show | Shoplifting
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show | Robert de Niro
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Who played God in the 1999 film "Dogma"? | show 🗑
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show | Charlton Heston
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In which hugely successful film did Robert Shaw play "Quint"? | show 🗑
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||||
show | Seattle and LA
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show | Cents
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show | Santeem
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'Manam' and 'Bagana' are active volcanoes in which country? | show 🗑
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||||
The 'Santa Maria' and 'Pacaya' active volcanoes are in which country? | show 🗑
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show | Coleraine
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show | Lake Bala
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What is the Welsh word for lake - it often precedes lakes' names in that language? | show 🗑
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show | Tyne, Humber, Thames, Shannon and Forth
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show | Sackville/Sackville-West
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show | India
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show | Rockies
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|
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At which complex of buildings does the annual "Ceremony of the Lilies and the Roses" occur? | show 🗑
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||||
In which Welsh county are the Brecon Beacons? | show 🗑
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What is the currency of the UAE? | show 🗑
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show | White
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show | Red
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Which city has the third-oldest underground metro system in the world ? | show 🗑
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show | Fasolada
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show | Tokugawa
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show | Xerophthalmia
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||||
Which product - first launched in 2001 - took its name from a line spoken in the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey? | show 🗑
|
||||
Later coming to represent the spirit of the Risorgimento, Il Bacio (The Kiss), is the best-known work of which 19th century Italian painter? | show 🗑
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||||
The leading power in Rome following the death of Gaius Marius, who was the father-in-law of Julius Caesar who served as four-time consul of the Roman Republic between 87 BC and his death in 84 BC? | show 🗑
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show | Dvorak Technique
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|
||||
Which racehorse won the American Triple Crown and the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2015? | show 🗑
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||||
show | Ramus
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||||
Napoleon's first wife Joséphine had previously been married to which French general guillotined during the Reign of Terror in 1794? | show 🗑
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show | Feni
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|
||||
The scene in which alcoholic David Holm wakes up at midnight only to find himself looking upon his own corpse is one of the most imitated in cinema history. Which 1921 Victor Sjöström film adapted from the Lagerlöf novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!? | show 🗑
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show | Laestrygonians
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|
||||
Her character, story, and depiction in art is often observed to be noticeably similar to that of the Virgin Mary in Christianity. Which goddess of mercy is almost certainly the most important female in the Buddhist tradition? | show 🗑
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show | Berzerk
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|
||||
One of the first actions of the Great Leap Forward, the Four Pests Campaign began in 1958 and aimed to rid China of rats, flies, mosquitoes, and which birds which have given their name to a better-known name for the campaign? | show 🗑
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||||
The headwaters of the rivers Ob and Irtysh are to be found in which mountain range on the border of Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which French-Israeli folk pop duo scored a worldwide hit in 2014 after the German electronic record producer Robin Schulz remixed their song Prayer in C? | show 🗑
|
||||
Because of the red sap produced by the tree, what name is given to a distinctive monocot tree native to the Socotra archipelago? | show 🗑
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||||
The 1939 'Winter War' was fought between which two nations? | show 🗑
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||||
Which battle of January 1777 shares its name with an Ivy League university? | show 🗑
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||||
In which 'war' of 1675-6 were Native Americans defeated in New England? | show 🗑
|
||||
What was the ship 'HMS Bounty' carrying when the famous mutiny occurred? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | James Madison
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|
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show | Disraeli
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show | Newbury
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|
||||
Simeon II, deposed in 1946, was the last king of which nation? | show 🗑
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||||
Which Winter War commander later became President of Finland from 1944 to 1946? | show 🗑
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||||
show | Richard II
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|
||||
The IMF was established by which conference of July 1–22, 1944? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who was the Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1939 to 1949, and then again from 1953 to 1956? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which Allied wartime conference was held from 28 November to 1 December 1943, the first of the "Big Three" conferences? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Yalta (accept Crimea)
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|
||||
show | April (12th)
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|
||||
show | Klement Gottwald
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|
||||
show | Jan Masaryk
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show | 1948
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|
||||
Both West and East Germany were officially founded as nations in which year? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954, helping to rebuild the country post-war? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | A quaver
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|
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show | Waltz
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|
||||
Jascha Heifetz was a virtuoso, considered by some the best of all time, on which musical instrument? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Sarah Vaughan
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|
||||
Which record label released Beatles recordings before Apple? | show 🗑
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||||
show | All Shook Up
🗑
|
||||
Which member of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was British? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who had a 1980 number 2 hit, "One Day I'll Fly Away". as well as hits with "You Might Need Somebody" (1981), and a cover of Brook Benton's classic "Rainy Night in Georgia"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which band's act was censored in the 2006 Superbowl half-time show? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the original Italian title of Rossini's opera "The Thieving Magpie"? | show 🗑
|
||||
William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow were the opposing legal minds in which famous case? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | William Paley
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|
||||
show | 1790s (1798)
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|
||||
"Nature red in tooth and claw" is taken from which poem? | show 🗑
|
||||
Darwin wrote an 1862 work - his first since the Origin of Species - about the fertilisation of which plants by insects? | show 🗑
|
||||
The complete title of which Charles Darwin book ends "and Selection in Relation to Sex"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel were two of the founders of which German political party? | show 🗑
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||||
show | 1860s (1867)
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|
||||
Which organization of socialist and labour parties was formed in Paris on July 14, 1889, and lasted until 1916? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Ulyanov
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|
||||
Which invertebrate, myxine glutinosa, is also called a 'slime eel'? | show 🗑
|
||||
Where in Europe is the Lovell Telescope located? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Hofmann
🗑
|
||||
Which computer famously defeated contestants on 'Jeopardy' in 2011? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which 120BCE device, subject to much wild speculation because of its apparently advanced mechanical design, and described as 'an analogue computer', was found on the seabed between Crete and Greece in 1901? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which part of their body do butterflies taste with? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Czechoslovakia
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|
||||
Which plant is sometimes called the 'Irish daisy'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Rabbit
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|
||||
show | Lawnmower
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|
||||
show | Harriet Quimby
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|
||||
show | 1953
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|
||||
How else is 'Newcastle Disease', a disease that affects birds but can be transmitted to humans, known? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Paul Allen
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|
||||
show | Etienne
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|
||||
Which WW2 ship, best known for her support of the German commerce raider, the "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee, was commanded by Kapitan Heinrich Dau? | show 🗑
|
||||
How is the flowering plant 'Hellebore Niger' also known? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Ten
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|
||||
show | FIAT
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|
||||
show | Spaniels
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|
||||
show | Mulhacen
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|
||||
show | Plynlimon
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|
||||
"A Philosopher Giving A Lecture On The Orrery" is a characteristic 1766 painting by who? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Sweden
🗑
|
||||
Give a year in the life of German painter Caspar David Friedrich. | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Jean-Honore Fragonard
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|
||||
show | Jacques-Louis David
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|
||||
show | Augustus Egg
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|
||||
show | Schiller
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|
||||
What was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), a poet, author, and philosopher of Early German Romanticism? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Shelley
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|
||||
The term "Romantic" was popularised by whose two-volume 1813 work "De L'Allemagne"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which French poet (1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), greatly influenced by Horace, was usually known by a one-word name? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Czech (titled 'Bohemian' at the time)
🗑
|
||||
Which collection opened in 1795 by Alexandre Lenoir and contained actual monuments of French Medieval and Renaissance art, removed from churches and chateaux after the French Revolution? It remained open until the Bourbon Restoration of 1816. | show 🗑
|
||||
Which set of reactionary restrictions introduced in the states of the German Confederation on 20 September 1819 banned nationalist fraternities ("Burschenschaften"), removed liberal university professors, and expanded the censorship of the press? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
🗑
|
||||
Which 19th century position, also a term for a theory in linguistics, advocated that all humans had descended from a single couple and therefore there could be no innate superiority or inferiority between different races? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Mulatto
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|
||||
show | July Monarchy
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|
||||
Ironically, whose mother married a Jew, Ludwig Geyer, upon the death of his father in 1813? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Mary Wollstonecraft
🗑
|
||||
What is the capital city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, although it is only the second largest city there? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin
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|
||||
show | Zurich
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|
||||
In which famous novel does the heroine Dorothea marry an elderly scholar called Casaubon who is writing "The Key To All Mythologies"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Sartor Resartus (The Tailor Retailored) was an 1835 book by which important thinker? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Friedrich Schleiermacher
🗑
|
||||
1802's "The Genius of Christianity" was by whom - he also wrote the autobiography "Mémoires d'Outre-tombe" ("Memoirs from Beyond the Grave") published posthumously in 1849–1850? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | 1795
🗑
|
||||
Whose posthumous "Lectures On The History Of Philosophy" appeared in 1832? | show 🗑
|
||||
The six-volume "Course of positive Philosophy" and four-volume "System Of The Positivist Party" were major works by who? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | George Grote
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|
||||
show | Gadfly
🗑
|
||||
show | Thyrsus
🗑
|
||||
Who wrote "The Case Against Wagner" after falling out with him, having once been friends? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Dunstable
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|
||||
show | Great Ouse (Bedford)
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|
||||
The Cecil Higgins Gallery, built by a brewing family, is in which town or city? | show 🗑
|
||||
The Khyber Pass connects Pakistan to which other country? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | George Hudson
🗑
|
||||
show | Albert Speer
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|
||||
show | Trevor Rees-Jones
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|
||||
show | 1603
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|
||||
Which British army regiment were founded on 13th August 1650? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | James II
🗑
|
||||
King Anawrahta (1044-77) is sometimes credited with being the man who unified which country? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Twenty
🗑
|
||||
show | Thomas Jefferson
🗑
|
||||
Which Indian Emperor embraced Buddhism in the 3rd century BCE, he ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE? | show 🗑
|
||||
Charles Dickens criticised "Christ in The House Of His Parents" by which artist, describing the young Christ as 'a hideous, wry-necked, blubbering, red-headed boy, in a bed gown'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Ireland
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|
||||
show | Lloyd Honeyghan
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|
||||
show | Kiawah Island
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|
||||
show | 1990
🗑
|
||||
Draw, block, trail and drive are different shots that can be played in which game? | show 🗑
|
||||
Sosban Fach ("Little Saucepan") is a song associated with rugby union teams from which town or city? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the correct title of the painting "Bubbles" by Millais? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Pears' soap
🗑
|
||||
show | Greyhound Racing
🗑
|
||||
Which list of twenty-three problems in mathematics, published in 1900. were all unsolved at the time, with several of them being very influential for 20th century mathematics? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | USA
🗑
|
||||
show | Germany
🗑
|
||||
The Ringstraße, constructed in the mid-19th century after the dismantling of the city's fortification walls, is a major road - and part of a UNESCO site -in which city? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who famously wrote "The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism" in 1904? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
🗑
|
||||
show | Les Nabis
🗑
|
||||
Who composed 1908's "Das Buch der hangenden Garten"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Ford Model T
🗑
|
||||
What was the trade name of the asphenamine sold by Paul Ehrlich in the early 20th century as one of the first treatments for syphilis? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Liège
🗑
|
||||
show | Deucalion
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|
||||
show | Huey Long
🗑
|
||||
A copy of which of his albums had John Lennon signed for his killer, Mark Chapman, on the day of his assassination? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Sade
🗑
|
||||
Which bone in the human body is also called the lingual bone? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the alter ego of Marvel superhero Daredevil? | show 🗑
|
||||
Said to have been the final meal of François Mitterrand, what is the common name of the small songbird, Emberiza hortulana, illegally captured and force-fed, before being drowned in Armagnac, roasted and eaten whole by French gastronomes? | show 🗑
|
||||
What term is traditionally applied to one of a number of so-called "tri-racial isolate" groups of the SE United States, found mainly in Eastern Tennessee, Southwestern Virginia, and Eastern Kentucky, noted for their dark skin and Aryan features? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Gary Gilmore
🗑
|
||||
show | Arthur Schnitzel
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|
||||
Which Austrian poet, novelist and librettist, sceptical that art can ever be the basis for society's values, wrote the poems "The Death of Titian" (1892) and "The Fool And Death"? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which German philosopher and priest (January 16, 1838 – March 17, 1917) thought philosophy went in cycles - there had been three - ancient, medieval and modern - each divided into four phases: Investigation, Application, Scepticism and Mysticism? | show 🗑
|
||||
Give a year in the life of philosopher Edmund Husserl. | show 🗑
|
||||
Edmund Husserl, Gregor Mendel and Sigmund Freud all were born in which historical county, an imperial state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1004 to 1806? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Cousin
🗑
|
||||
The Second Boer War started and ended in which years? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Transvaal
🗑
|
||||
show | Budapest
🗑
|
||||
show | David Wark
🗑
|
||||
show | Josef Breuer
🗑
|
||||
show | Sympathy
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|
||||
show | Achilles
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|
||||
show | Priam and Hecuba
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|
||||
show | Andromache
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|
||||
Which Biblical prophet, during the reign of Jeroboam II, (786–746 BC), and one of the 12 minor prophets, says the famous lines "Let justice roll down like the waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Fettes College
🗑
|
||||
The youngest person ever to give birth, for which there is verifiable medical evidence, is a Peruvian girl named Lina Medina who gave birth at what age? | show 🗑
|
||||
Between 1968 and 2000, what was the pseudonym used by any Hollywood film director who wished not to be credited with a particular film? | show 🗑
|
||||
The date-plum and the kaki are both varieties of which edible fruit that takes its name from the Algonquian for 'dry fruit'? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which Russian anarchist, was a proponent of a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between workers, released the 1902 work "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution"? | show 🗑
|
||||
For what did the B stand in the name of the film-maker Cecil B DeMille? | show 🗑
|
||||
What was the name of the literary group, founded in 1713, whose members included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and John Gay? | show 🗑
|
||||
What is the name of the thick, spicy Russian soup made with meat or fish, cucumbers, brine, cabbage, mushrooms and cream? The soup is prepared by cooking the cucumbers with brine before adding the other ingredients to the broth. | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Fermanagh
🗑
|
||||
show | Peter the Painter
🗑
|
||||
Which is the latest date upon which Easter Sunday can fall? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who was the Austrian Foreign Minister, considered Europe's most important diplomat of the time, who chaired the Congress of Vienna from 1814 to 1815? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Winifred Atwell
🗑
|
||||
Which is the largest of the 88 recognised constellations? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Arthur Rowley
🗑
|
||||
Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin all died in which year? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Hugo von Hofmannsthal
🗑
|
||||
Which philosopher (1859-1938) described a noema/noesis dichotomy, where noema is something that is true in itself, and noesis is where a mind 'intends' an object? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Masochism (from the works of leopold von Sacher-Masoch)
🗑
|
||||
show | Otto Wagner
🗑
|
||||
Which Austrian and Czechoslovak architect and influential theorist of Modern architecture wrote "Ornament and Crime" that advocated smooth and clear surfaces in contrast to the lavish decorations of the Fin de siècle? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Anaphora
🗑
|
||||
With the seeds of which plant is the liqueur Kümmel made? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Monserrat
🗑
|
||||
What was the name of the Spanish slave-carrying schooner upon which African slaves revolted in 1839, precipitating the abolitionist movement? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | The Dagda
🗑
|
||||
show | Democritus
🗑
|
||||
show | Goldsmith
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|
||||
show | Ernst
🗑
|
||||
What was the German term for art nouveau? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Llanwrtyd Wells
🗑
|
||||
What were the forenames of flight pioneers the Wright brothers? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Wicked Stepmother
🗑
|
||||
show | The Mabinogion
🗑
|
||||
show | Joseph Conrad
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|
||||
show | Schoenberg
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|
||||
show | Sprechgesang
🗑
|
||||
Which photographer established the famous "291" avant-garde gallery at 291 Broadway, New York? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Farinelli
🗑
|
||||
show | Harland
🗑
|
||||
On which fictional island was King Kong captured in the 1933 film of the same name? | show 🗑
|
||||
Who was the 10-year old child pretender to the throne of England during the time of Henry VII who was claimed, falsely, to be the Earl of Warwick? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which US singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer, a founder member of The War On Drugs - although he left after the first album - has the backing band "The Violators"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Megiddo
🗑
|
||||
show | Simone de Beauvoir
🗑
|
||||
"The Bald Prima Donna", "Rhonoceros" and "The Stroller In The Air" are all plays by which man, sometimes called "The Last Modernist"? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | Stranraer
🗑
|
||||
Which Pope, who reigned from 1846 to 1878, was the longest-reigning Pope since St Peter? | show 🗑
|
||||
Which American film star of the 1940s was known as the 'Peekaboo Girl'? | show 🗑
|
||||
show | John Oliver
🗑
|
||||
show | 1940s (1947)
🗑
|
||||
show | Alfred Kinsey
🗑
|
||||
Who was the Bulgarian tennis player who was Monica Seles' opponent in the quarter-final in Hamburg in 1993 during which Seles was stabbed? | show 🗑
|
||||
Whose novel was "A Walk On The Wild Side" (1956)? | show 🗑
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François Hennebique invented which aid to architecture? | show 🗑
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Coquille St. Jacques is the name given to a dish containing which molluscs? | show 🗑
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show | North Carolina
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The 'umbrella' or 'parasol' is a species of which type of tree? | show 🗑
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show | Orville
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In which country did the Australian athlete John Landy become only the second man to run a sub-four minute mile in 1954? | show 🗑
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Which word, coined in 1976 by the biologist Richard Dawkins, refers to a "unit of cultural information" which can propagate from one mind to another in a manner similar to genes? | show 🗑
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show | Leaving On A Jet Plane
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Which police force became known as the Milice de Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale in 1971? | show 🗑
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show | Iona Community
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Located in Kazakhstan, what is the world's largest operational space launch facility? | show 🗑
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When signing a letter in place of someone else it is common to write the abbreviation 'pp' before one's signature; for which Latin phrase does the abbreviation 'pp' stand? | show 🗑
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show | Hurling
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Which Russian car manufacturer is better known to the world as Lada? | show 🗑
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show | Johnny Ace
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Who was the Trojan priest of Apollo who, with his two sons, was crushed to death by sea serpents sent by the gods because he warned his people against accepting the Trojan horse from the Greeks? | show 🗑
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Robert Henri (1865-1929) was the leader of which artistic movement who painted the real, ugly world around them? | show 🗑
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How many seconds did Orville Wright's pioneering flight last, according to the man himself? | show 🗑
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show | Flyer
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show | J'Accuse
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show | Matterhorn
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Lying on the border between Italy and Austria, which is the lowest of the main Alpine passes and was the site of meetings between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War? | show 🗑
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show | On The Origin Of Species by Darwin
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From the Greek for "to eat," what name is given to a virus that infects bacteria? | show 🗑
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show | Emile Zola
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show | Thespian (from Thespis)
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show | Aeschylus
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show | Sophocles
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What name is given to the cycle in which phages incorporate their nucleic acid into the chromosome of the host cell and replicate with it as a unit without destroying the cell? | show 🗑
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show | Scarlet Fever
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show | Columbia
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show | Montana and Idaho
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The District of Columbia, with which the city of Washington is coextensive, lies on the bank of which river forming the border between Maryland and West Virginia? | show 🗑
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Which assault rifle is the most widely manufactured and used in the world? | show 🗑
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show | France
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show | Ecliptic
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show | Coypu
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Brevicaudata and lanigera are the two species of which small rodent, native to the Andes? It's been hunted almost to extinction in the wild for its thick silver-grey fur | show 🗑
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show | Abigail Adams
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show | Snakes
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The Oxford Parliament saw the defeat of attempts to exclude James Duke of York from succession. Which monarch summoned this parliament? | show 🗑
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show | John Henry Newman
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With more than four million people in an area slightly smaller than Anglesey, what is the most densely-populated country in Asia? | show 🗑
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show | Jacques-Laurent Agasse
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Which type of pasta translates from the Italian as 'little ears'? | show 🗑
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Part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, what is nonetheless the second largest city and municipality in Finland? | show 🗑
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show | Nerva
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Who was the 17th Century Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland who famously calculated the date of creation as 22nd October, 4004 BC? | show 🗑
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show | Tom Taylor
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Which album by U2 took its name from a line in the Mel Brooks film 'The Producers'? | show 🗑
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show | Yapok
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Rosenborg are the most successful team in Norwegian football league history; in which city do they play their home games? | show 🗑
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What is the occupation of the title character in the musical 'Hello, Dolly!'? | show 🗑
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show | Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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What is the name of the supposedly magical stone that stands on the Hill of Tara in Ireland? | show 🗑
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What was the first name of chef Escoffier, who famously invented Peach Melba? | show 🗑
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What was the name of the Russian submarine that sank in the Barents Sea in 2000, killing 118 people? | show 🗑
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show | Giulio Andreotti
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From 1964 to 1966, which famous singer-songwriter was the lead singer of the group Them? | show 🗑
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show | Churchill Downs
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show | Shropshire
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show | Hong Kong
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Which Latin phrase refers to the practice in drama of introducing a god or other improbable device to resolve a conflict in the plot? | show 🗑
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show | Chinese Date
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What was the name of the horse ridden by Lord Cardigan at the Charge of the Light Brigade? | show 🗑
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show | Tembu
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In July 1954, both Frank Sinatra and the Four Aces had top 5 hits with the same song; which song? | show 🗑
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show | Chandrasekhar limit
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show | The Abominable Dr Phibes
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show | Preseli Hills
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The name of which Asian city translates as 'the place of the Gods'? | show 🗑
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What are names of the three main divisions of the mind in Freudian psychology? | show 🗑
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Located in Berlin's Tiergarten, which building has been the official residence of the President of Germany since 1994? | show 🗑
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Who wrote the 1866 poem "The Garden of Prosperine"? | show 🗑
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Jos is a city that is the capital of which country's "Plateau State"? | show 🗑
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Discovered by Chartrand and Bargh, what name is given in psychology to the unconscious tendency to mimic others' behaviour? | show 🗑
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The acronym WEIRD, a cultural identifier of psychology test subjects, usually from affluent countries, stands for what? | show 🗑
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In the Biblical book of Kings, Yahweh performed many miracles through which prophet, including raising the dead, bringing fire down from the sky, and taking the prophet himself up to heaven "by a whirlwind? | show 🗑
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show | Recife
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What name was given to Brazil's 7-1 2014 football World Cup semi-final defeat to Germany, evoking the name of national shame brought by the Maracanazo, when Brazil lost at home to Uruguay in 1950? | show 🗑
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Winning on 19 November 1999, and sharing his name with a famous Hollywood director, who was the first $1 million dollar winner in the US version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"? | show 🗑
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show | (Dan) Rowan & (Dick) Martin
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show | Dartmouth, Eleanor, Beaver
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show | Helvetica
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show | San Francisco Giants
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Which coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon is the counterpart of El Niño as part of the broader El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern system? | show 🗑
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What does El Niño, as in the name of the climate system, mean in Spanish? | show 🗑
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A portion of the cerebral cortex folded deep within the lateral sulcus, and located in each hemisphere, which brain structure is believed to be involved in consciousness and takes its name from the Latin for 'island'? | show 🗑
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Which gland of the human body secretes melatonin? | show 🗑
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show | Southern California (accept Baja California)
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show | Raymond Chandler
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The sharav wind affects which country? | show 🗑
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Geli Raubal, who killed herself on 18 September 1931, was the half-niece of which man - she used his pistol to shoot herself? | show 🗑
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show | Foehn
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show | Serotonin
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What is the county town of Devon? | show 🗑
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show | Truro
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What is the county town of Somerset? | show 🗑
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show | Lewes
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show | Chichester
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Located in Barkhor Square, Lhasa, what is the most sacred and important temple in Tibet? | show 🗑
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What is the county town of Buckinghamshire? | show 🗑
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show | Toy Story
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show | 1948
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Which three-time Presidentian nominee led the prosecution at the infamous Scopes monkey trial? | show 🗑
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The discoverer of Machu Picchu, Hiram Bingham, was born in which city, now in the USA, but then capital of an independent nation? | show 🗑
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Which American indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures flourished around 1905-15, and was named for the usual price of admission? | show 🗑
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show | Kill Devil Hills
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Manufacturing and repairing which items provided the financial basis for the Wright Brothers' aviation exploits? | show 🗑
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In the Bible, who was the husband of Bathsheba? | show 🗑
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show | Anna Akhmatova
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show | Paul Celan
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show | The Tale of Genji
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He rebelled against his father and was killed during the Battle of Ephraim Wood - Biblically, which handsome man was David's third son? | show 🗑
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David fatefully sees Bathsheba bathing on the roof in which book of the Bible? | show 🗑
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show | Exodus
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Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was an early pioneer of what, and certainly the first man to repeatedly and successfully use the technique, although he was eventually killed doing it? | show 🗑
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William James Glackens (March 13, 1870 – May 22, 1938) was an American realist painter and one of the founders of which school? | show 🗑
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Which early film, edited and directed by Edwin Porter, was one of the first to intercut scenes, and feature a chase scene - it was released in 1903? | show 🗑
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King Songsten Gampo moved his capital to which city in the 7th century - it remains a capital to this day? | show 🗑
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