Daphne Fowler's Daily Quizzes
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| 33 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ | show 🗑
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| show | RUMBLING IN THE STOMACH
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| show | SAP
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| show | OVE ARUP
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| show | MASTER CHIEF JOHN 117
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| show | USUALLY TOBACCO – IT’S A TOBACCO POUCH BUT IT WAS ALSO USED TO CARRY MONEY
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| 6 Which animal was the first to be domesticated as a source of food, according to the archaeological record? | show 🗑
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| 7 What is the general term for materials that “pipe” light? | show 🗑
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| show | IAIN MACLEOD
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| 9 Which American poet wrote such poems as "Another Bit and an Offer", under the pseudonym of Alfred Venison? | show 🗑
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| show | ED BALLS
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| show | A CHINESE MOUTH ORGAN
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| show | INSPECTOR SANDS
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| show | VIMEIRO
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| 14 What would you often see, written by an arrow on an IDEO locator? | show 🗑
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| show | FLAMINGO
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| show | MAURITANIA
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| 17 What was the name given to the unimaginative, bourgeois, fictional author of poems which were actually written by satirical poets, such as Friedrich Halm, Eduard Morike and Wilhelm Muller? | show 🗑
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| show | CONSTRUCTION, DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT
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| 19 Who set Heracles the 12 Labours he had to undertake? | show 🗑
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| show | COLORADO
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| show | PORTLAND
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| show | HE'S A GUINEA PIG
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| 3 Which grape variety is the main component of a Chianti wine blend? | show 🗑
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| show | CHARTRES
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| show | A THIN WHITE EDIBLE MUSHROOM WITH A VERY SMALL CAP.
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| show | THE HEART OF ENGLAND
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| 7 In which novel by Henry James, does Kate try to persuade her lover to marry Milly, who will soon die and leave him her fortune? | show 🗑
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| 8 Noel Coward moved to the Caribbean in the late 1950s. What was the name of his house in Jamaica? | show 🗑
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| show | LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON – THE THREE NOVELS ARE CALLED SUNSET SONG, CLOUDE HOWE AND GREY GRANITE.
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| show | FLORENCE
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| show | IHRAM
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| show | CHOCOLATE (THORNTONS)
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| 13 What name is given to a shale-type sedimentary rock, composed of clay or volcanic rock, which is often used in roofing? | show 🗑
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| show | D (DSYGER IS LEARNER IN WELSH)
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| show | THE MORDAUNT
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| show | SOUTH CAROLINA
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| 17 Which general secretary of the TUC from 1973-83, died in 2004? | show 🗑
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| 18 In geology, of what were the Huronian and Sturtian examples? | show 🗑
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| show | RADAR BEACON
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| show | FIELD MARSHAL GERD VON RUNDSTEDT
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| 31 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ | show 🗑
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| show | NOODLES
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| show | WATERLOO BRIDGE
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| 3 The capture of which Palestinian city in a single day in October 1917, began an offence which resulted ultimately in the independent state of Israel being proclaimed in 1948? | show 🗑
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| 4 In which country in 1927, did Augusto Cesar Sandino begin a guerilla war against the occupation of US Marines, which continued until they were expelled in 1933? | show 🗑
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| 5 Which singer (1912-1979) who was known as the "godfather of the counter tenor", sang the role of Oberon in the premiere of Benjamin Britten’s opera "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", in 1960? | show 🗑
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| 6 In which part of Europe did the 16th century Peasants War take place? | show 🗑
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| show | 20%
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| show | AXIOLOGY
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| show | JANE EYRE
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| 10 Who was appointed Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2005 – the first woman to head a major American orchestra? | show 🗑
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| show | TAIWAN
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| 12 What shape is the Italian pasta corzetti? | show 🗑
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| 13 Setanta was the boyhood name of what legendary Irish hero? | show 🗑
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| show | THE BRENTA CANAL
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| 15 Who was the last prime minister, never to have sat in the House of Commons? | show 🗑
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| 16 Which was Britain’s major fighter aircraft of World War I? | show 🗑
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| 17 Where do the American fighting force, the Green Berets, train? | show 🗑
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| show | A SMALL PAIL
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| show | THE WRIST
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| show | BRISTOL
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| 30 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ | show 🗑
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| show | THE OERSTED - NAMED IN HONOUR OF THE DANISH PHYSICIST, HANS CHRISTIAN OERSTED
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| 2 In the Middle Ages, what was an orphrey? | show 🗑
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| 3 What was the name given to the copper coin 2d, which was issued in 1797 and weighed two ounces? | show 🗑
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| 4 What is zydeco? | show 🗑
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| 5 The musical piece "Romance" by Dmitri Shostakovich, was written for which 1955 Soviet film? | show 🗑
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| show | THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM.
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| 7 In which Scottish body of water do Inchkeith island and the Isle of May lie? | show 🗑
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| 8 What is the more familiar name of the Joachim brothers (Al, Jimmy and Harry) famous for their comedy films of the 30s and 40s? | show 🗑
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| 9 What type of food is the Japanese arame? | show 🗑
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| show | THE ACHAEONS
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| show | IT’S CALLED THE VIEILLE CURE
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| show | HENRIK IBSEN
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| show | THE BULK MODULUS
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| 14 Which town, the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, was formerly known as Frobisher Bay? | show 🗑
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| 15 The residents of which historical region of England, introduced the system of burghal hidage which listed 33 forts that were at most a day’s ride away from its citizens, and this system kept the region independent of the Danes, at a time when other reg | show 🗑
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| 16 Which was the largest ever flying animal, which was a giant pterosaur of the late Cretaceous period? It had a wing span of up to 15 metres and was named after the Mesoamerican feathered serpent god. | show 🗑
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| show | DISTANCE
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| show | THE SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART
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| 19 What is the name of the merchantman ship on which Lemuel Gulliver travelled to the land of Brobdingnag? | show 🗑
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| show | BETWEEN THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS IN IRAQ
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| 29 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUZ | show 🗑
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| 1 What name is given to a synovial sac between two moving surfaces of the body? | show 🗑
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| 2 What is the capital of the French Cote-D’Or department and also the region of Burgundy? | show 🗑
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| show | THE ASHCAN SCHOOL – THE NICKNAME DERIVED FROM THEIR PREOCCUPATION WITH SLUM SCENES, ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF GEORGE BELLOWS, ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN MEMBERS.
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| 4 Phenol, an acid commonly used as a disinfectant, is commonly known by what other name? | show 🗑
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| show | A SLOTH WHICH WEIGHED UP TO FOUR TONS
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| 6 What is a puggaree? | show 🗑
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| show | BUFFALO BILL CODY
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| show | THE PILUM
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| show | NORTH CAROLINA – IT’S THE EASTERNMOST TIP OF HATTERAS ISLAND, ONE OF A STRING OF ISLANDS OFF THE COAST OF NORTH CAROLINA, PRESERVED AS A NATIONAL SEASHORE.
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| show | A SMALL ARBOREAL MONKEY LIVING IN THE SOUTH AMERICAN RAIN FORESTS.
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| show | 10
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| 12 Which American industrialist (1868-1938) pioneered the pneumatic tyre for the Model T Ford as well as non-skid treads? | show 🗑
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| show | HIERONYMOUS BOSCH
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| show | A FIGHT BETWEEN FASCISTS UNDER OSWALD MOSELEY, WHO MARCHED THROUGH JEWISH AREAS IN THE EAST END, AND THE JEWS AND OTHERS WHO TRIED TO PREVENT THEM.
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| show | VESTA TILLEY (REAL NAME MATILDA ALICE POWLES 1864-1952)
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| show | MRS HENRY WOOD
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| 17 Which English poet, (1895-1985) whose mistress was the poetess Laura Riding, wrote a novel about the future called “Seven Days in New Crete” as well as the novels, “Antigua, Penny, Puce” and “King Jesus”? | show 🗑
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| show | AUSTRALIA - IT IS IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.
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| show | PHILADELPHIA
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| show | MARGARET BONDFIELD
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| 28 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ | show 🗑
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| show | MALTA
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| 2 The Dewey Decimal System is more commonly used in European libraries, but what is the name of the book classification system, widely used in American research and academic libraries? | show 🗑
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| show | SOFFRITO
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| 4 In which US state is Auburn University? | show 🗑
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| 5 Considered an official spinoff of the Bond books, “The Moneypenny Diaries” is a series of novels and short stories chronicling the life of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal secretary. Who wrote the books under the pseudonym of Kate Westbrook? | show 🗑
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| show | SIR ROGER NORRINGTON
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| show | MAX BYGRAVES
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| 8 Together with James Madison, who founded the Democratic-Republican Party in America in 1792? | show 🗑
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| show | BENIN (ORIGINALLY DAHOMEY)
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| 10 Who wrote the lyrics for the shows “The Boys from Syracuse” and “Pal Joey” ? | show 🗑
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| 11 This quotation from the Ancient Greek describes whom: "She is the daughter of Night, the goddess of retribution, who brings down all immoderate good fortune and checks the presumption that attends it."? | show 🗑
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| show | THE GRANDE CORNICHE
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| show | MUNICH
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| 14 Which Irish writer, creator of Artemis Fowl, wrote the book "Half-Moon Investigations", which was made into a children’s television series, and was also commissioned to write "And Another Thing", which was the 6th instalment of the "Hitchhiker's Guide | show 🗑
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| 15 An Act of Parliament of 1833, abolished slavery in the British Empire. In which year had an earlier act first abolished the transatlantic slave trade? | show 🗑
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| 16 Who was the first person to be commemorated by a Blue Plaque in London? The address was 24 Holles Street, Cavendish Square and it commemorated his birthplace. | show 🗑
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| show | LUMPEN, AS IN LUMPEN PROLETARIAT
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| 18 On which river does the town of Skipton stand? | show 🗑
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| 19 Which architect designed the 2012 London Olympic Aquatics Centre? | show 🗑
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| 20 What foodstuff is categorised into four colour classes, those being white, golden, dark and amber? | show 🗑
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| 1 The “original and genuine sticky toffee pudding” is advertised as coming from which Cumbrian village? | show 🗑
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| show | ARIZONA - ALTHOUGH THE NAVAJO NATION WHO LIVE IN THE NORTH-EAST OF THE STATE, DO OBSERVE IT
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| show | THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS WHOSE PRESIDENT (AS AT JUNE 2015) IS JORGE CARLOS FONSECA
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| 4 In which sea will you find the Dahlak archipelago, whose pearl fisheries have been famous since Roman times? | show 🗑
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| show | JEAN-BERTRAND-LEON FOUCAULT
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| show | THE LANGMUIR CIRCULATION
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| 7 In Greek mythology, which pipe player was flayed alive by Apollo, as a punishment for challenging him to a musical contest and losing it? | show 🗑
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| show | THE CLAIM WHICH STARRED PETER MULLAN AND MILLA JOVOVICH
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| show | MELON
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| show | LUCA DELLA ROBBIA
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| 11 Which Irishman, (1878-1931) who was an official war artist during World War I, painted the "conversation piece" "Homage to Manet", in which he portrayed members of the contemporary English art world, sitting in conversation beneath a famous portrait by | show 🗑
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| show | JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU (1683-1764)
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| show | SARGON
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| show | CEREDIGION - ABERAERON IS THE HEADQUARTERS OF CEREDIGION TOWN COUNCIL
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| show | FLASHBULB MEMORY
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| show | ARTHA
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| 17 Meaning ‘new bark’ in Latin, what is the name of the outer layer of the cerebral hemispheres found in the brains of all mammals, but not in any other animals? | show 🗑
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| show | BOURNEMOUTH
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| 19 Which coin ceased to be legal tender in 1980? | show 🗑
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| 20 What is defined as a disc with a heavy rim mounted in a double gimbal, so that its axis can adopt any rotation in space? | show 🗑
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| show | ELLEN MCARTHUR
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| show | OLIVER JAMES
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| 3 Which English chemist gave his name to the standard test for arsenic? | show 🗑
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| 4 Who is the current (as at June 2015) prime minister of Russia? | show 🗑
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| 5 In Australia, besides being a beer can, what is a tinny? | show 🗑
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| show | THE LA BREA TAR PIT – THE FOSSILS DATE FROM OVER 15000 YEARS AGO.
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| show | WASSILY KANDINSKY.
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| show | CHRISTIAN BOYS, TAKEN FROM THEIR FAMILIES TO BECOME SLAVES IN THE PERSONAL SERVICE OF THE TURKISH SULTAN (FROM ABOUT 1450).
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| 9 Which American state capital was founded as a trading post called Fort Nassau in 1614? | show 🗑
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| 10 Where in the human body would you find the muscle, the brachioradialis? | show 🗑
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| 11 What is the name given to the traditional signs in Kent, that guided the pilgrims to Canterbury? | show 🗑
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| 12 The RSPB reserve of Elmley Marshes, which is one of the largest bird reserves in the country, is in which English county? | show 🗑
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| 13 What is the capital of the Spanish province Cantabria? | show 🗑
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| show | THE HUDSON
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| show | THE NORE MUTINY
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| show | RAPHAEL
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| show | ADAR
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| show | PANAMA -
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| show | GLAUBERS SALTS, WHICH ARE NAMED AFTER JOHANN RUDOLF GLAUBER (1604-1670) WHO IS SOMETIMES KNOWN AS THE GERMAN BOYLE, I.E. FATHER OF CHEMISTRY.
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| show | ST MATTHEW
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| show | IT'S A LIME GREEN MOTH
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| show | KING SOLOMON’S MINES BY H RIDER HAGGARD
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| 3 Which style of architecture is distinguished by vertical lines of tall pillars and by pointed arches? | show 🗑
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| show | SERGE LIFAR
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| show | ADRIANOPLE (AFTER HADRIAN)
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| show | HAPPY DAYS
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| 7 Which 1990 Pulitzer prize winning novel made Oscar Hijuelos internationally famous? | show 🗑
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| show | AARON SORKIN
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| 9 In Henry Fielding’s "The History of Tom Jones, The Foundling", written in 1749, in whose bed was the baby Tom Jones found? | show 🗑
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| 10 On which Asian island in World War II, was the gin drinkers line defended during the battle of December 1941, between the British/Canadian garrison and a reinforced Japanese division? | show 🗑
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| show | THE HARMONICA
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| 12 Which American composer of film music wrote the scores of the early Harry Potter films? | show 🗑
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| show | APOLLO
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| show | DOUBLE INDEMNITY
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| 15 Which archipelago contains the most westerly of the islands of the Outer Hebrides? | show 🗑
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| 16 Lillian Helman’s play "The Little Foxes" was turned into which opera by Mark Blickstein, in 1949? He named the opera after the central female character in the play, who was played in the film version by Bette Davis. | show 🗑
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| show | A FOREIGNER
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| 18 What in Buddhism is paritta? | show 🗑
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| show | CANDIDA - HE IS A YOUTHFUL POET TRYING TO WIN THE AFFECTIONS OF CANDIDA
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| 20 How many eyes does a South African wolf spider have? | show 🗑
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| 1 After oxygen and silicon, which non metallic element is the most abundant constituent of minerals? | show 🗑
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| 2 What is Joan Collins’ middle name? | show 🗑
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| 3 In freemasonry, the first degree is called entered apprentice, the second is fellow craftsman – what is the third degree called? | show 🗑
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| 4 What is the Toureg language called? | show 🗑
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| 5 Which form of keyhole surgery deals specifically with operations on joints? | show 🗑
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| 6 Which 16th century dramatist wrote the words “Holla, the pampered jades of Asia” – about some captive kings in his 1590 play "Tamerlane The Great"? | show 🗑
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| show | 1946
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| 8 What sort of sea creature is an acaleph? | show 🗑
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| show | CLEMENT ATTLEE
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| 10 Which great Austrian composer conducted the New York Philharmonic from 1909, until just before his death in 1911? | show 🗑
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| show | BRAZIL
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| show | ROBERT PEEL
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| show | THE ELM
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| show | HARLEM
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| show | PABLO PICASSO
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| show | BILLY THE FISH
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| show | THE FIRTH OF TAY
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| show | SIMON MAGUS
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| 19 What is the name for the substance obtained from barley malt flavoured with hops, from which beer is produced? | show 🗑
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| show | FIBREGLASS
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| show | HEINRICH HEINE, WHOSE EARLY LYRIC POETRY WAS SET TO MUSIC IN THE FORM OF LIEDER BY SUCH COMPOSERS AS ROBERT SCHUMANN AND FRANZ SCHUBERT
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| 2 Which is the largest island in the British Indian Ocean territory? | show 🗑
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| show | THE WATERGATE AFFAIR - THE NOVEL WAS A SATIRE ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF RICHARD NIXON
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| show | YEVGENY YETUSHENKO
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| show | MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE
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| 6 On the side of which Scottish loch is Fort William situated? | show 🗑
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| show | IT'S A STYLE OF WRITING AND TEACHING CURSIVE HANDWRITING FOR ENGLISH
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| 8 Which richly seasoned stew of meat and vegetables, gets its name from a French word meaning to stimulate the appetite? | show 🗑
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| 9 Vera Lynn, Anne Shelton and Kathy Kirby all sang with whose band? | show 🗑
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| 10 Which word originally meant someone sent ahead to procure lodgings and quarters for an army or royal train, but has come, by analogy, to mean a forerunner of disaster? | show 🗑
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| show | ADBUL THE BULBUL EMIR.
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| show | IT OCCURS IN PAIRS EIGHT YEARS APART WITH 120 YEARS IN BETWEEN. THE LAST ONE WAS IN 2012 AND THE NEXT ONE WILL BE IN 2117 FOLLOWED BY 2125
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| show | THE KING COBRA
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| 14 Which German Expressionist artist (1880-1938) painted "Girl Under A Japanese Parasol" and "Self-portrait With Model"? | show 🗑
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| 15 What does the Third Amendment to the American constitution forbid? | show 🗑
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| show | APPOLONIUS OF PERGA, THE GREAT GEOMETER. HIS TREATISE CONICS, ON CONIC SECTIONS, IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
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| show | A BOUCLEE
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| 18 Whereabouts would you wear a balibuntal? | show 🗑
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| 19 Which Japanese car company, named after the star cluster, the Pleiades, has a symbol which only shows 6 stars? | show 🗑
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| show | PLACIDO DOMINGO
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| 22 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 29/06/2015 | show 🗑
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| 1 Which mountain in Galilee is the traditional scene of the Transfiguration, although it is not mentioned in the New Testament? | show 🗑
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| show | A BEETLE OF THE FAMILY, WHICH INCLUDES OIL-BEETLES AND BLISTER BEETLES.
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| show | THE NEDERRIJN (THE NETHER RHINE) WHICH IS THE NAME OF THE DUTCH PART OF THE RIVER RHINE
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| show | ARTHUR SARSFIELD WARD.
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| 5 Which musical hall star was nicknamed Champagne Charlie, after his most famous song? | show 🗑
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| 6 What was a barracoat? | show 🗑
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| 7 Which Australian city grew out of a convict settlement called Edenglassie? | show 🗑
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| show | KNAPWEED
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| show | HALIFAX
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| 10 What is the name of the planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra? | show 🗑
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| 11 What is the collective noun for a group of barracuda? | show 🗑
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| 12 Which American film director won an Oscar for My Fair Lady in 1965? | show 🗑
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| show | LAKME
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| 14 Who set up the Fourth International in 1938? | show 🗑
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| show | A ROSE
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| 16 In 1922, a collection of short stories by Aldous Huxley, were published under a title borrowed from a phrase in one of Hamlet’s soliloquies. What was the title? | show 🗑
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| 17 Which of St Paul’s epistles, which comes between those of Timothy and Philemon in the New Testament, was written to a man who was traditionally held to be the first bishop of Crete? | show 🗑
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| 18 Which 1976 war film was based on R C Sheriff’s play “Journeys End” but was moved from the play’s trenches into the skies? | show 🗑
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| show | COMPOST
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| show | NICHOLAS CULPEPPER
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| 21 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 28/06/2015 | show 🗑
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| show | THE SCAPULA (SHOULDER BLADE)
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| show | HOLLER
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| 3 Which metric unit consists of 1000 kilogrammes? | show 🗑
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| show | THE MASS TO CHARGE RATIO OF AN ION
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| 5 The 19th century Caste War took place between the population of European descent, who were known as the Yucatecos, and which indigenous people? | show 🗑
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| show | THE ALEWIFE WHICH IS A SPECIES OF HERRING
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| 7 Named after Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, how is Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America better known? | show 🗑
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| show | THE LADYBIRD
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| show | HARLECH
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| show | HUDSON BAY
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| 11 What were the Christian names of Conservative politician RAB Butler? | show 🗑
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| 12 Which English word meaning suave and affable is derived from old French, and literally means of good temper? | show 🗑
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| 13 Frank Sinatra’s recording of "All The Way" was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1957, but it was the song on the B side which arguably became more famous for him in the long term – which song was that? | show 🗑
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| show | THE PLOUGH
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| 15 What may be defined as the time taken for one revolution, between two successive returns of the sun to the Earth’s meridian? | show 🗑
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| 16 In which country was James Clavell’s 1986 novel “Whirlwind” set? | show 🗑
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| 17 Which heavily built ground squirrel with short legs, short tail, broad rounded head and small ears, has generally reddish/yellow fur and can be found in the Swiss Alps and Russian Carpathians? | show 🗑
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| 18 What term used to describe goods or produce of cheap or inferior quality, is derived from the Yiddish for damaged merchandise? | show 🗑
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| 19 What was the name of the lifeboat used by Shackleton to sail on his epic rescue voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia, after his ship Endurance was crushed in pack ice during his expedition of 1914-1916? | show 🗑
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| 20 What is the name of the acclaimed orchestra that is a product of El Sistema, a publicly financed voluntary sector music education programme in Venezuela? | show 🗑
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| 20 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 27/06/2015 | show 🗑
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| 1 The world’s first e-mail message was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. What did it (probably) say? | show 🗑
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| 2 Which American state’s car plates have the slogan "Sportsman’s Paradise"? | show 🗑
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| 3 What can be measured in lamberts or milli lamberts? | show 🗑
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| show | MESONS
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| 5 What name was given to the followers of a demented visionary, Richard Brothers, who believed that the British were descended from the Biblical 10 lost tribes of Israel and that he, himself, was the rightful prince of the Hebrews? | show 🗑
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| show | JANE GLOVER
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| 7 Cap de la Hague on the French Normandy coast, is separated by a 10 mile strait from which island? | show 🗑
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| show | CARACALLA
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| 9 In which European country, did Bela Kun’s Red Terror exist in 1919? | show 🗑
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| show | J G BALLARD
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| 11 Hilda Lessways, "These Twain" and "Roll Call" are books in which series? | show 🗑
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| show | PROPITIOUS CLOUDS
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| show | JAMES POLK, THE 11TH PRESIDENT, WHO SERVED FOR ONE TERM (1845-49) AND DIED THREE MONTHS LATER
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| 14 Which French king relied heavily on the Huguenot minister, the Duke de Sully, who negotiated the Peace of Savoy, arranged Henry's marriage with Marie de Medici and wrote the "Économies Royales" which helped popularise the king’s notion of a "Great Desi | show 🗑
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| 15 Which 2nd century BC Greek astronomer created the orders of magnitude, by which the brightness of a star is measured? | show 🗑
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| show | THE GREAT RED SPOT
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| show | ASATRU
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| 18 Which word is derived from the position of Greek philosophers who suspended judgement on everything, and had no doctrine? | show 🗑
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| show | PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL
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| 20 On September 27, 1825, which locomotive, built by George Stephenson, carried 450 persons at 15 miles per hour from Darlington to Stockton, on the world's first public passenger train? | show 🗑
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| show |
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| show | DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
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| 2 Judith is the name of the newly married wife who is crowned Bride of the Night, in which opera by Bela Bartok? | show 🗑
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| show | CIGAR BANDS
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| show | SECRET ASSET AND "ILLEGAL ACTION" – THE FIRST WAS CALLED "AT RISK". THE SEVENTH IN THE LIZ CARLYLE SERIES "THE GENEVA TRAP" WAS PUBLISHED IN 2012
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| show | THE PTARMIGAN
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| show | MARK MORRIS (HIS DANCE COMPANY WAS SET UP IN 1990 TO TOUR BALLET NATIONALLY, AND INTERNATIONALLY).
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| show | COLORADO
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| 8 Which Iranian prime minister was removed from office in 1953, in an armed coup sponsored by the CIA and Britain’s MI6? | show 🗑
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| show | HUSHPUPPIES
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| show | THE VICTORIA BATHS WHICH WERE DERELICT BUT AFTER RESTORATION, CAN NOW BE HIRED FOR FUNCTIONS
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| show | IT IS REGARDED AS THE MINIMUM TEMPERATURE NECESSARY FOR SUSTAINED PLANT GROWTH
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|
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| 12 Which musical written, produced and directed by former disc jockey Mike Reid, closed in October 2004, after just one performance? | show 🗑
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| show | LE CORBUSIER
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| show | PERSEPHONE
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| show | CONTRALTO
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| 16 The flags of both Australia and New Zealand depict the Southern Cross. Name the three other national flags on which the constellation appears? | show 🗑
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| 17 Which Sri Lankan born architect, who designed the Beijing television centre project (2002-8), collaborated with Anish Kapoor, to create the ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture for the 2012 London Olympic Games? | show 🗑
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| show | FLEET STREET
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| show | MARYLAND
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| show | LILY OF LAGUNA
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| show |
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| show | SHIRLEY WILLIAMS
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| show | GODZILLA
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| show | IDRIS THE DRAGON
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| 4 Which genus of plants includes the Hong Kong orchid tree, and the mountain ebony? | show 🗑
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| 5 What is the collective term for the cultures of Bronze Age Greece, which included the Minoan civilisation of Crete, the Mycenaean civilisation of the Peloponnese and mainland Greece? | show 🗑
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| 6 Which particular musical instrument was played by such performers as Ethel Smith and Harry Farmer? | show 🗑
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| show | HARDCASTLE
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| show | MICHAEL BERKELEY
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|
||||
| show | MUNSTER – IN 1127 KERRY WAS DIVIDED TO FORM THE O’BRIEN KINGDOM OF THOMOND, NORTH MUNSTER AND THE MACCARTHY KINGDOM OF DESMOND, SOUTH MUNSTER.
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||||
| 10 What popular name is given to the members of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, known in the USA for their distinctive architecture, furniture and handicrafts? | show 🗑
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| show | IDOMENEUS
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| 12 Martin Strel, who is Slovenian, set a world record in 2007 by swimming the length of which river? | show 🗑
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| show | FERRIC OXIDE
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| show | GURMUKHI.
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| 15 When the Stone of Scone was stolen from Westminster Abbey in 1950, to which Scottish Abbey was it taken? | show 🗑
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| 16 One of the species of the midwife toad is restricted to a single Mediterranean island. Which one? | show 🗑
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| 17 Robert Bruce Montgomery wrote music for films, but what was his real name under which he wrote films, detective novels and science fiction? | show 🗑
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| show | LOS ANGELES - WEST HOLLYWOOD
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|
||||
| show | AN APPLE WHICH IS STUFFED WITH QUINCE OR PLUM JAM, ENCASED IN PASTRY AND THEN BAKED.
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||||
| show | THE NARNIA CHRONICLES
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| 17 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 24/06/2015 | show 🗑
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||||
| show | TEXAS
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||||
| 2 Which French writer, who born in 1880 in Rome, of Polish descent, is regarded as a precursor of surrealism? | show 🗑
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||||
| 3 What name did W Aytoun apply in 1854, to the work of Philip James Bailey, Sydney Dobell and Alexander Smith, poets whose work seemed to him to be executed in verbal spasms over which they had no control? | show 🗑
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| show | LITTLE DORRIT
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|
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| 5 Which American born British sculptor's works include the giant male nude statue "Spirit of Liverpool Resurgent", unveiled over the entrance to Lewis’s Department store in Liverpool in the 1950s? | show 🗑
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| 6 What method of transport was the British Dayton Albatross? | show 🗑
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||||
| 7 In 1582, which action marked the start of the French Wars of Religion? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE ROYAL BALLET
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|
||||
| show | BREAD – COM PANIS MEANS BREAD SHARER IN LATIN
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|
||||
| show | DIONYSUS
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|
||||
| 11 Which French sculptor (1861-1944) made his name with females nudes such as "Mediterranean" and "Night", and has three of his bronzes gracing the staircase of New York's Metropolitan Opera House? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | KABUKI
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|
||||
| show | PATRICK SARSFIELD, THE 1ST EARL OF LUCAN.
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|
||||
| show | CONSTANTINOPLE
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|
||||
| show | EDGARD VARESE
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|
||||
| show | GEORGE BRAQUE (1882-1965)
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||||
| show | THE DIPPER
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| show | CYGNUS
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| 19 What was another name for the Bye plot, directed against James I in 1603? | show 🗑
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| show | A COWBELL
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| 16 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 23/06/2015 | show 🗑
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||||
| 1 Roger Mellie and Sid the Sexist are characters in which comic? | show 🗑
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||||
| 2 In Egyptian mythology, who was the god of the air and the supporter of the sky? | show 🗑
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||||
| 3 Which painter and art critic who was born in Hackney in 1923, wrote the novels "The Foot of Clive" and “G” (which won the 1972 Booker prize and the James Tait Memorial Prize) and also the famous art book "Ways of Seeing", which was turned into a televis | show 🗑
|
||||
| 4 What is the name given to the part of the germinating seed that grows into the shoot? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE PERFECT FOOL
🗑
|
||||
| 6 Which American biomedical scientist, who won the Nobel prize for Medicine in 1974, led the team that developed the vaccine against measles and has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines"? | show 🗑
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||||
| 7 The Douglas DC-3 aircraft was also known by what name in wartime Britain? | show 🗑
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||||
| 8 Which Canadian cellist was born in Israel in 1965, but moved to Toronto with her family in 1971? | show 🗑
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||||
| 9 Which English poet wrote the words to the tango “Jealousy”? | show 🗑
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| 10 What is the title of Byron’s 1813 poem, which tells the tale of a female slave Layla, who is unfaithful to her Turkish lord, Hassan, and who, as a consequence, is bound and thrown into the sea, but is avenged by her lover who kills Hassan? | show 🗑
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| 11 Who was the Governor of Moscow, who is generally held responsible for the burning of the city, after its occupation by the French in 1812? | show 🗑
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||||
| 12 Usually used in a 70% solution in water, which strong acid can appear yellow upon exposure to light? It oxidizes all metals except the “noble” metals, and it is a component of both acid rain and aqua regia. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE SHEAR MODULUS
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| show | THE EXPLORERS
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|
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| 15 In an orchestra, which instruments would usually be seated immediately behind the oboes? | show 🗑
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| 16 Paintings such as his highest selling painting "Boy With A Pipe" and "Two Acrobats and a Dog", are from which period of Pablo Picasso’s work? | show 🗑
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| 17 Which American naturalist and environmental philosopher's activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, the Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas in the USA in the 19th century? | show 🗑
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| 18 Which Restoration poet wrote “Go lovely rose”, which various composers have set to music? | show 🗑
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||||
| 19 Which Greek goddess bathed in a spring on Argos every year to renew her virginity? | show 🗑
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||||
| 20 Marlene Dietrich gave which American author the nickname of Papa? | show 🗑
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||||
| 15 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 22/06/2015 | show 🗑
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||||
| show | QUITO
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|
||||
| 2 Which is the only species of stork, which occurs in Australia? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 3 Which British radio astronomer, who was born in Brighton in 1918, developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location of weak radio sources? With improved equipment, he observed the most distant known galaxies of the uni | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | DERBYSHIRE
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|
||||
| show | EDMOND HALLEY WHO DIED IN 1742
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|
||||
| 6 What was the route between Dover and London nicknamed during World War II? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | HMS BRILLIANT (1990)
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|
||||
| show | THEY ARE BIVALVE MOLLUSCS – SHELLS.
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|
||||
| 9 What were the Rudolphine Tables? | show 🗑
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||||
| 10 Which Italian city did the American poet, Ezra Pound, describe as a fit abode for a poet? | show 🗑
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||||
| 11 Which American poet who was born in Ohio in 1899, wrote “The Bridge”? | show 🗑
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||||
| 12 Which locomotive engineer designed engines such as Silver Jubilee, Coronation and the Mallard? | show 🗑
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||||
| 13 Which 19th century naval hero is thought to have been the model for both C S Forester's Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brien’s Captain Aubrey? | show 🗑
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||||
| 14 Where does the A38 trunk road which is nicknamed the Devon Express, start and finish? | show 🗑
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||||
| 15 Which noble family live at Welbeck Abbey, which is in the Dukeries of north Nottinghamshire, and was originally the site of a monastery belonging to the Premonstratensian order? | show 🗑
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||||
| 16 What was the name of the 19th century social and educational reformer, who opened a girls' school in Bristol in 1829? She was concerned with the reform of juvenile delinquents and wrote “Our Convicts” in 1864. | show 🗑
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||||
| 17 Who composed the Roman Carnival overture in 1844, using tunes from his opera Benvenuto Cellini? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A SAVOURY PANCAKE
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|
||||
| show | DERMOT GAVIN
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|
||||
| 20 What is the name of the full length surrealist ballet, based on the life and works of the Spanish poet Lorca? | show 🗑
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| show |
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| show | THE KINGFISHER
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|
||||
| 2 Which two London monuments were both originally commissioned to commemorate Britain's victory over Napoleon? | show 🗑
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||||
| 3 Taken from that of a 20th century Hungarian physicist and mathematician, what name is given to the energy stored in a crystalline substance as a result of irradiation, for example, some of the energy lost by neutrons in a nuclear reaction stored by the | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | THE US VIRGIN ISLANDS
🗑
|
||||
| show | SIDEWISE - IN 2013 IT WAS SHARED BETWEEN D J TAYLOR FOR "THE WINDSOR FACTION" AND BRYCE ZABEL FOR "SURROUNDED BY ENEMIES: WHAT IF KENNEDY SURVIVED DALLAS?"
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|
||||
| show | VERMILION
🗑
|
||||
| 7 Named after physicist Douglas Hartree, the hartree is the atomic unit of what? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | JEAN MONNET (1888-1979)
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|
||||
| show | THERE ARE SEVERAL FALSE ENDINGS
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|
||||
| show | ALISON UTTLEY
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|
||||
| 11 Which US General commanded the 12th Army group, that spearheaded the Liberation of France and Germany, during the closing stages of WW2? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | BARCELONA
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|
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| 13 What originally provided the source of dyes for tartan cloth? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | FAILURE
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|
||||
| show | THE FACTORY ACTS
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|
||||
| show | METHANE
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|
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| 17 What is the only county in the Irish province of Connacht, which does not have a coastline? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | PATRICK MCLOUGHLIN WHO IS THE CONSERVATIVE MP FOR DERBYSHIRE DALES
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|
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| 19 In 2009, who succeeded the Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and in 2014 was made a cardinal by Pope Francis? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | KENNETH HORNE
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| show |
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|
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| show | 1909
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|
||||
| show | OCTOBER SKY WHICH IS AN ANAGRAM OF ROCKET BOYS
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|
||||
| 3 In South Africa, what is a toebie? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 4 Which element forms the rod at the centre of an ordinary torch battery? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | BISMUTH
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|
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| show | THE ROCK AND ROLL OF HALL OF FAME
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|
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| show | WORMWOOD SCRUBS
🗑
|
||||
| 8 In meteorology, what name is given to the law that states that convergence into a given column of air, must be balanced by an equal divergence from that same column of air? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | CHERRIES JUBILEE
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| show | ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
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|
||||
| 11 What "bad mixture" was an imbalance of the four humours, that was once believed to be the direct cause of all diseases? | show 🗑
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||||
| 12 Which man, born Theophylactus, of extremely dubious morals, was the only Pope ever to serve more than once (in all, 3 discontinuous periods), and the only one to have sold the papacy? | show 🗑
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| 13 In economics what name is given to the special type of goods, that people buy more of, when the price increases? | show 🗑
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| show | MISE EN SCENE WHICH MEANS TO PUT ON STAGE
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|
||||
| show | MOORE'S LAW
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|
||||
| show | THE CORRECTIVE REVOLUTION
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|
||||
| show | A TORNADO
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|
||||
| show | BERLIN
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|
||||
| show | THE OVERHANG
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|
||||
| show | CALCIUM HYDROXIDE OR CA (OH) 2
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|
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| show |
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|
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| 1 What is the traditional date of Christmas Day, in the Russian Orthodox church? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | TRAFFIC
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|
||||
| show | THE DRUMS
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|
||||
| show | GEORGE TUPOU VI.
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|
||||
| show | SEAMUS HEANEY
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|
||||
| 6 Which New Zealand poet called her first collection "The Eye Of The Hurricane"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | THE WARTHOG
🗑
|
||||
| 8 What name did Richard Wright give to his account of his early life in Mississippi and then Chicago? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 9 When the Dutch chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont suggested there might be insubstantial substances other than air, what word did he invent for such a substance? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | ROBERT SCHUMANN
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|
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| show | AUGUSTE RODIN
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|
||||
| 12 Which jazz musician has a church named after him in San Francisco ? | show 🗑
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| show | THIO
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|
||||
| 14 What is added to glass to make it heat resistant? | show 🗑
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||||
| 15 Which Kent seaside resort was the first to introduce deck chairs in 1898, and had its Victorian pier destroyed by a storm in 1978? | show 🗑
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||||
| 16 What was the stage name of the music hall star George Galvin? | show 🗑
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| 17 Which brothers exhibited their work "Great Deeds Against the Dead" at the Sensation exhibition in 1997? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | QU YUAN.
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| show | A LONG NECKLACE OR PENDANT ON A LONG CHAIN.
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| 20 What type of video game creature is Spyro? | show 🗑
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| show |
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| show | HYDROCEPHALUS (WATER ON THE BRAIN)
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|
||||
| show | CHURCHILL
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|
||||
| 3 Which theatre in London was built by Sir Oswald Stoll, in 1904, and has a globe above it, with the theatre's name on it? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | ALLEN JONES WHO WAS BORN IN SOUTHAMPTON IN 1937
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|
||||
| 5 Which Athenian politician was the founder of Athenian democracy? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | THE COWSLIP
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|
||||
| show | DISCWORLD
🗑
|
||||
| 8 The Barnacles, an incompetent family of obstructive officials in the Government’s Circumlocution Office, appear in which Charles Dickens’ novel? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | STEVE FAIRBAIRNS – THIS IS A WINTER RACE FOR 8’S, OVER THE HALF MILE COURSE FROM MORTLAKE TO PUTNEY, & WAS DEVISED FOR CREWS PREPARING FOR THE SUMMER REGATTAS.
🗑
|
||||
| show | HENRY CAMPBELL BANNERMAN
🗑
|
||||
| 11 Which blues musician who died in 2001, recorded the songs "I’m In The Mood", "Boom Boom" and "Boogie Chillum"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 12 Which British broadcaster and author, born in Carlisle in 1939, wrote the screenplays for "Isadora" and "Jesus Christ, Superstar"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 13 Which novel by Patrick White, featured the character Laura Trevelyan, and is based on the life of the 19th century Prussian explorer and naturalist, Ludwig Leichhardt, who disappeared whilst on a expedition in to the Australian outback? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | A HINDU SAGE OR SEER
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|
||||
| show | THE GRAND CANAL
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|
||||
| show | THE BOWMAN SYSTEM
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|
||||
| 17 Who has written a trilogy of crime novels, featuring detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler, called "The Various Haunts of Men" (the title comes from a poem by George Crabbe), "Pure In Heart" and "The Risk of Darkness"? | show 🗑
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| show | ALBERT EINSTEIN
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|
||||
| show | MOUNTSORRELL
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|
||||
| show | IO
🗑
|
||||
| 10- DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 17/06/2015 | show 🗑
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||||
| 1 What name is given to the group of islands in the Indian ocean, which contain Mauritius, Rodriguez and Reunion? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | KRISHNA
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|
||||
| show | THE SAUCY SEVENTH
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|
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| show | TO GO WITHOUT DINNER
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|
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| show | BRADENHAM HAM
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|
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| show | AFRICA - MAINLY IN ETHIOPIA
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| show | JOHN BANVILLE, WHO ALSO WRITES CRIME NOVELS UNDER THE PSEUDONYM OF BENJAMIN BLACK
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| show | JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
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| 9 Mr Kurtz – he dead is a line borrowed from Joseph Conrad’s novel "Heart of Darkness" for the epigraph to which poem by T S Eliot? | show 🗑
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| 10 In which sea, did a ferry carrying passengers from Saudi Arabia to Egypt, sink in early 2006 with the loss of a thousand lives? | show 🗑
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| 11 In which Scottish market town, can Sueno’s stone be found? | show 🗑
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| show | BARDSEY ISLAND - THE LEGENDARY ISLAND OF 20,000 SAINTS WHICH LIES JUST UNDER A COUPLE OF MILES OFF THE LLYN PENINSULA
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| show | T S ELIOT
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| 14 Located in Wales, what is Britain’s most complete set of monastery ruins? | show 🗑
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| show | THE SELEUCIDS
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| 16 Which Lebanese port is also known as Sour? | show 🗑
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| 17 What kind of fruit is a citrullus vulgaris? | show 🗑
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| 18 Which artist painted "Le Jardinier" ("The Gardener Vallier"), in 1906, which can be found in the Tate gallery? | show 🗑
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| 19 At the Fort William Highland games, what is the turning point of the half marathon? | show 🗑
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| 20 “Klezmer” is a genre of music primarily associated with which religion? | show 🗑
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| 9 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 16/06/2015 | show 🗑
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| show | PETER TERSON
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| show | ATHENA, IN ALLUSION TO THE STORY THAT AT THE NAMING OF ATHENS, SHE PRESENTED IT WITH AN OLIVE BRANCH. THE OLIVE WAS THE SYMBOL OF PEACE AND FECUNDITY.
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| 3 What are fents in the cloth trade? | show 🗑
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| show | IMPOSITION.
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| 5 Which is the name of the British string quartet, renowned for their performances of Shostakovich, whose current members are Lucy Russell and Marcus Barcham-Stevens on violins, Alan George on viola and Heather Tuach on cello? | show 🗑
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| show | PAUL CLAUDEL
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| show | THE GREEN RIBBON CLUB
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| show | SID FIELD (1904-1950)
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| 9 In which country is the Sondheim musical “A Little Night Music” set? | show 🗑
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| show | THE BAHAMAS
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| 11 Which city under Ottoman rule, resisted Napoleon’s besieging army for two months until May 1799 when Napoleon retreated? | show 🗑
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| show | MAUS WHICH WAS WRITTEN BY ART SPIEGELMAN
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| 13 Which Christian sect which flourished in southern France in the late 12th century, believed in a dualist system, where God created spiritual things and Satan created worldly things? | show 🗑
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| show | THE AMYGDALA
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| 15 Which is the most famous poem by the American Joel Barlow (1754-1812) who was a poet, diplomat, and politician, who supported the French Revolution and was an ardent Jeffersonian? | show 🗑
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| 16 Scientologists believe that humans are possessed by Thetans, which are the spirits of aliens murdered 75 million years ago, by which galactic overlord? | show 🗑
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| 17 Which society gives the Hubbard medal, named for its first president, for exploration, discovery and research? | show 🗑
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| 18 Which musical instrument was developed and named, by Alexander Debain in Paris in 1840? | show 🗑
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| show | MORDECAI
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| show | STEPHEN SONDHEIM WROTE THE WORDS AND JULES STYNE WROTE THE MUSIC
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| 8 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 15/06/2015 | show 🗑
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| Ooops! - sorry about the typo "flanch" in the answer to Question 2 on the 9th June - it should have been flaunch.... | show 🗑
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| show | ROGER OF SALERNO
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| 2 What kind of a bird is the saddle-billed? | show 🗑
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| 3 What is the alternative name for the Labrador current, which is a cold current in the North Atlantic Ocean? | show 🗑
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| show | GOSPORT
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| 5 Which English astronomer, born in 1915 near Bingley in West Yorkshire, wrote many important works including The Nature of the Universe and The Frontiers of Astronomy? | show 🗑
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| 6 Which London Park takes its name from the leper colony that once stood on the banks of the Tyburn? | show 🗑
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| 7 Who was the first Queen’s Counsel? | show 🗑
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| show | THEY ARE ALL PARASITIC PLANTS WITH NO CHLOROPHYLL – THEY STEAL THEIR FOOD BY SENDING SUCKERS INTO OTHER PLANTS, AND CAN CAUSE HUGE ECONOMIC LOSSES IN A VARIETY OF HERBACEOUS CROPS
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| 9 Which American president won the nickname of "Old Rough and Ready" when he fought in the Seminole Wars? | show 🗑
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| 10 What does the Jewish festival of Seder commemorate? | show 🗑
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| show | IN THE QUEEN’S IMPERIAL STATE CROWN. ITS ORIGINAL OWNER IS TRADITIONALLY ALEXANDER II OF SCOTLAND AND IT WAS SET INTO HIS CROWN FOR HIS CORONATION IN 1214
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| show | NORMAN PARKINSON WHO DIED IN 1990
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| show | THE PERMIAN
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| 14 What is the name of the pool on Bodmin Moor, where legend says that a man had to empty it with a leaking limpet shell? | show 🗑
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| show | A PINK
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| 16 Which religious movement took its name from the Latinised name of the Dutch theologian Jacob Arminius, and grew in the early 17th century as a reaction against the strict tenets of Calvinism? | show 🗑
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| 17 Which symphonic poem by Resphigi, depicts the composer’s feelings in Rome, while looking at the Valle Giulia, the Triton, the Villa Medici and the Trevi at different times of the day? | show 🗑
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| show | CONTRACT BRIDGE - HE PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN THE POPULARISATION OF THE GAME AND IS KNOWN AS THE "MAN WHO MADE CONTRACT BRIDGE"
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| 19 What name is given to the larvae of the crane fly, prone to attack and kill the roots of plants, especially on ground newly converted from grassland? | show 🗑
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| 20 What was the name of the English chemist and physicist, who in 1861, discovered the element thallium by observing a green line in the spectrum of selenium? | show 🗑
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| show |
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| 1 Which American jazz clarinettist became the first significant white bandleader to hire a black female singer, when he signed Billie Holiday as his vocalist in 1938? | show 🗑
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| 2 Moyogi, Kengai and Chokkan are three styles used in what? | show 🗑
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| show | DUNS SCOTUS
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| show | THE EMERGENCY
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| show | A DIADEM
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| 6 In 1995, who succeeded Douglas Hurd as Britain's Foreign Secretary? | show 🗑
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| show | SPEED AND LAUNCE
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| show | THE MV EXPLORER
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| show | OCTOBER
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| 10 To which family of plants, do the wild flowers Wood Anemone (Anemone Nemorosa), Columbine (Aquilegia Vulgaris) and Marsh Marigold (Caltha Palustris) belong? | show 🗑
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| 11 Which Italian sculptor designed the piazza in front of St Peter's in Rome? | show 🗑
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| 12 Who painted Westminster Bridge from the North on Lord Mayor’s Day? | show 🗑
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| 13 In the traditional English folk song "There is a Tavern in the Town", what type of tree does the singer say he'll hang his hat on? | show 🗑
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| 14 Frisby and Funly are varieties of which salad vegetable? | show 🗑
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| show | ZERO
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| 16 In Oct/Nov 2008, experts decided that which foodstuff should ideally stand four inches high? | show 🗑
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| 17 Which high-kicking Hong Kong action star made his Hollywood breakthrough in the 2000 film "Romeo Must Die"? | show 🗑
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| 18 Grey Street, designed by John Dobson in the early 19th century and renowned for its Georgian architecture, is an elegant feature of which northern English city? | show 🗑
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| show | KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
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| 20 Who wrote the 1890 novel "The Light That Failed", following the life of Dick Heldar, a painter who goes blind? | show 🗑
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| show |
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| 1 What is the word for a compound, which has large molecules made up of many relatively simple repeated units? | show 🗑
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| 2 Whose novel "The First Man", the manuscript of which was found in the wreckage of the car crash that killed him, was published posthumously 34 years after his death in 1995? | show 🗑
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| 3 What are represented by the eight points on the crosses of the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitallers? | show 🗑
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| show | A SHEITEL
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| show | MINERVA
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||||
| show | THINGS TO COME WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST FILM SCORE EVER COMMITTED TO DISC.
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| show | MONT ST MICHEL
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| 8 Who was the Emperor of Rome, when the famous eruption of Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79AD? | show 🗑
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||||
| 9 Which Greek sheep's milk cheese is commonly used in the famous Greek dish saganaki? | show 🗑
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| show | THE KEA
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| show | CAMBODIA
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| 12 The "figure" or effect of being able to see the shadows of the retinal blood vessels in one's own eye, has been given what name after a Czech physiologist who died in 1869? | show 🗑
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| 13 Name the principle of electron addition that takes its name from the German for "building up." | show 🗑
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| show | KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
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| show | 18
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| 16 Crimson Rosella, Port Lincoln and Greater Redcheeked are all types of what? | show 🗑
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| show | RHINOCEROS
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| show | 95 PENCE
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| 19 Which thriller writer who was born in Kendal in 1923 and who died in 1983, wrote such adventure novels as "The Golden Keel", "The Freedom Trap" and "Windfall"? | show 🗑
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| 20 The force between two electrical charges is proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. This law is named after which French physicist, who also has the SI unit of electrical charge | show 🗑
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| 5 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 12/06/2015 | show 🗑
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||||
| show | JULIE VERHOEVEN WHO HAS WORKED FOR THE ITALIAN LABEL GIBO AND COLLABORATED WITH SUCH BRANDS AS LOUIS VUITTON, VERSACE AND PETER JENSEN
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| show | THOMAS A BECKET.
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| 3 Jimmy Noone and Johnny Dodds were both jazz musicians on which musical instrument? | show 🗑
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| show | PHOEBE AND AMBER
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| 5 Belong, Spring In Paris, Chic and All For Love are perfumes in which singer's Parfum range which is produced by Coty? | show 🗑
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||||
| 6 Which ethnic Greek poet, worked for 30 years, as a civil servant in Alexandra’s Irrigation Service? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | SILVER
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| 8 Of which species is the Turkana Boy, the most complete known skeleton? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | SELMA AND MONTGOMERY
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||||
| show | JOAN RUDDOCK
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|
||||
| show | THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION
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|
||||
| show | BORON
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|
||||
| show | NOEL COWARD’S.
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| 14 What type of laser is used in CD’s and DVDs? | show 🗑
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| show | ABSINTHE
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| 16 Which peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean? | show 🗑
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||||
| 17 Robert Draper’s book "Dead Certain" is a critique of which American President? | show 🗑
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| show | FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS BY HUNTER S THOMPSON
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| 19 What is the main city of Kurdish Iraq? | show 🗑
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||||
| 20 Which British novelist’s 2008 book about death is called Nothing To Be Frightened Of? | show 🗑
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||||
| 4- DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 12/06/2015 | show 🗑
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| 1 In nautical terms, if a ship flies the single flag for the letter 'W', what does this signify to other ships? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 2 In what way is the rare banded anteater or numbat, distinct from all other Australian marsupials? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 3 From which English county does Brickbat cheese come? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE MIDDLE WAY
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|
||||
| show | ILLYRIA
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|
||||
| show | NUNEATON
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|
||||
| show | AUGUSTUS CAESAR
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|
||||
| show | LEICESTER
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|
||||
| show | QUARTZ
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|
||||
| 10 In The Merchant of Venice, which of the three caskets contains what the Prince of Aragon describes as “the portrait of a blinking idiot”? | show 🗑
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||||
| 11 What is another name for the Egyptian mongoose, venerated in ancient Egypt, because it destroyed the eggs of crocodiles? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | NORTHAMPTONSHIRE – IN THE VILLAGE OF RUSHTON. HE WAS A DETERMINED CATHOLIC, IMPRISONED FOR HIS BELIEFS AND THE LODGE CELEBRATES THE HOLY TRINITY.
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||||
| show | MEDOC
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|
||||
| 14 What is the name given to metal barriers used on motorways and motor racing circuits, taken from their trade mark name? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE KAKAPO WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE OWL PARROT
🗑
|
||||
| show | SAMUEL PALMER WHO PAINTED SUCH MYSTICAL VISIONARY LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS AS THE REPOSE OF THE HOLY FAMILY
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|
||||
| show | LITHOGRAPHS WHICH WERE ADVERTISED BY THEIR PUBLISHERS AS COLOURED ENGRAVINGS FOR THE PEOPLE.
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|
||||
| show | EDWIN LANDSEER
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|
||||
| 19 The work of which 19th century German mathematician, a contemporary of Gauss, concerning the geometry of space, provided the foundation for the concepts used later in the theory of relativity? | show 🗑
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||||
| 20 Which 19th century Victorian engineer built the Chelsea, Victoria, and Albert embankments to provide an alternative to the pestilential flood prone banks of the Thames? | show 🗑
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| show |
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| show | MAGENTA
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|
||||
| 2 Of which wood are the despatch boxes in the House of Common made? They were a gift from New Zealand? | show 🗑
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||||
| 3 A leap year is known as a bisextile year from the Roman custom of counting which day in February, twice every fourth year? | show 🗑
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| 4 Worn by French revolutionaries in the 18th century, what was a carmagnole? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | VITAMIN K
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||||
| 6 What is cocksfoot? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | SOFIA COPPOLA
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|
||||
| show | JOHN LAW (1671-1729)
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|
||||
| show | LUTHER BLISSET
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|
||||
| 10 The worst marine disaster of the 20th century occurred when which ship was torpedoed in the Baltic Sea in 1945 with the loss of over 7000 lives? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | ROY FULLER (1912-1991) WHOSE DAYTIME JOB WAS A SOLICITOR FOR THE WOOLWICH EQUITABLE BUILDING SOCIETY
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||||
| 12 Who is the Egyptian goddess of truth and justice? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | JOHN MCGAHERN
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||||
| 14 Which early summer food and fibre crop seen in the English countryside, turns the fields blue? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE ADELPHI
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|
||||
| show | ANTHONY HOPKINS (1921-2014) - NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE ACTOR OF THE SAME NAME
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|
||||
| show | PIEDMONT
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|
||||
| show | SWANS
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|
||||
| 19 What was the name of the ancient east-west fortification system running from near Portishead to near Marlborough, which was probably constructed as a defence against Saxon invasion? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 20 Which Athenian dramatist wrote the Oresteia trilogy which consists of the plays "Agamemnon", "The Libation Bearers" and "The Eumenides" (The Furies)? | show 🗑
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| show |
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| 1 In Shakespeare’s play Pericles, what is the name of the governor of Tarsus? | show 🗑
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||||
| 2 Who wrote the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE EARL DOUGLAS WHO WAS SCOTTISH AND THE LORD PERCY WHO WAS ENGLISH
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|
||||
| 4 The 1981 film “The Priest of Love” was about the life of which English writer? | show 🗑
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||||
| 5 The works of which British composer whose centenary was celebrated in 2005, include the overture Derby Day, a harp concerto called Lara Angelica and an operatic version of Strindberg’s Miss Julie? | show 🗑
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||||
| 6 Which Biblical prophet was the son of Cushi? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | WILLIAM JACKSON
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||||
| 8 What is forrell? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE PARANA
🗑
|
||||
| 10 Which British electrical engineer patented his vacuum diode valve in 1904, and is probably best remembered for his rules to assist in working out the relative directions of the field, current and force in electrical machines? | show 🗑
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||||
| 11 Which of Napoleon’s marshals who was known for his vanity, was reputed to have told a firing squad to aim for his heart, rather than his face, following his arrest shortly after Waterloo? | show 🗑
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||||
| 12 What is rhyolite? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE BOGOMILSi
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||||
| 14 What is the part of the brain called that is usually located in the left frontal lobe and is involved with speech production? | show 🗑
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||||
| 15 Which is the state bird of Ohio? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | MENANDER (340'S BC-290 BC)
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|
||||
| show | THE GLUON
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|
||||
| 18 In Frank L Baum’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, what was the name of the Cowardly Lion? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | THE FLYING EAGLE
🗑
|
||||
| 20 In biology, into which major grouping are all organisms put, except bacteria and cyanobacteria? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 1. DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 09/06/205 | show 🗑
|
||||
| 1 Off which island did the Italian liner Andrea Doria sink in 1956, with the loss of 52 lives, after a collision with the MS Stockholm ? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | FLANCH. THE SLOPING FILLET OF CEMENT OR MORTAR EMBEDDING THE BASE OF A CHIMNEY POT IS KNOWN AS FLANCHING.
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||||
| show | DERBYSHIRE (IT’S NEAR BAKEWELL).
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|
||||
| show | A HOARD OF GOLD SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN THE POSSESSION OF MUSSOLINI IN APRIL 1945 WHEN HE WAS CAPTURED BY ITALIAN PARTISANS AT DONGO NEAR LAKE COMO.
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||||
| 5 After killing Desdemona, Othello is relieved of his command. Which officer is made ruler of Cyprus in his stead? | show 🗑
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||||
| 6 Which renowned French writer died in an insane asylum in 1893? | show 🗑
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||||
| 7 Where is the Coromandel Peninsula? | show 🗑
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| show | TESSERAE.
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| show | ST ROSALIA.
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|
||||
| 10 What is Bernoulli’s Principle? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | SCULPTURE. “FAMILY GOING FOR A WALK” IS ONE OF HIS BEST KNOWN PIECES.
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| show | (VISCOUNT) WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR
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|
||||
| 13 The Starlight Barking is the sequel to which much loved children’s book? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
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||||
| show | TOM COSTELLO
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|
||||
| show | JOHN BAILLIOL
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|
||||
| 17 The building of a railway linking Berlin and a city which was then a Turkish possession, was one of the causes of tension before 1914. Which city was the railway’s ultimate destination? | show 🗑
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| show | THE TUFT OF FILAMENT WITH WHICH IT IS ATTACHED TO ROCKS ETC. SEA SILK WHICH IS CLOTH OF EXCEEDINGLY FINE TEXTURE IS MADE FROM BYSSAL FIBRES OBTAINED FROM THE PEN SHELL
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| 19 In the 2005 election, George Galloway and his Respect party defeated the reigning MP, Oona King for which constituency? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | JAMES STARLEY (1831-1851)
🗑
|
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| #REF! | show 🗑
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