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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| 2 What name is given to the watery fluid found in plants, by which carbohydrates are transported and stored? | show 🗑
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| show | OVE ARUP
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| 4 What is the name of the hero of the computer game Halo? | show 🗑
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| show | USUALLY TOBACCO – IT’S A TOBACCO POUCH BUT IT WAS ALSO USED TO CARRY MONEY
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| show | SHEEP (BONES FOUND IN NORTHERN IRAQ DATE FROM ABOUT 8000 BC).
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| 7 What is the general term for materials that “pipe” light? | show 🗑
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| 8 Which Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ,who is said to have coined the term "nanny state", died in office in 1970? | show 🗑
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| show | EZRA POUND
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| show | ED BALLS
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| 11 What kind of a musical instrument is a sheng? | show 🗑
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| 12 What is the code phrase used by public transport authorities in the UK, including Network Rail and London Underground, to alert staff and other agencies, such as the police, to an emergency, or potential emergency, such a fire or bomb scare, without al | show 🗑
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| 13 In which battle of 1808 during the Peninsular War, did a British force under Wellesley defeat a French Army led by Junot, which put an end to the French invasion of Portugal? | show 🗑
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| show | YOU ARE HERE
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| 15 Greater, Lesser, Andean, Chilean, James’ and Caribbean are the six species of which wading bird? | show 🗑
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| 16 Which African country’s national flag is described thus: - green with a yellow five-pointed star above a yellow, horizontal crescent; the closed side of the crescent is down; the crescent, star, and colour green are traditional symbols of Islam? | show 🗑
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| show | GOTTLIEB BIEDERMEIER
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| 18 The CDM Regulations apply to most common building work but what do the letters CDM stand for? | show 🗑
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| show | KING EURYTHEUS, KING OF TIRYNS
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| 20 Which American state, which lies in west-central USA, is bordered by Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Utah? | show 🗑
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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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| 4 Which market town, which has a famous cathedral, is the capital of the Eure-et-Loire department in France? | show 🗑
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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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| show | FIREFLY
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| show | LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON – THE THREE NOVELS ARE CALLED SUNSET SONG, CLOUDE HOWE AND GREY GRANITE.
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| 10 Various modern chamber music organisations use the words Camerata in their title. In which Italian city did the group of poets and musicians known as the Camerata, meet from about 1576? | show 🗑
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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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| 15 In the art of engraving, what name is given to the acid or corrosive agent which does the engraving? | show 🗑
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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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| show | ICE AGES
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| 19 What does the portmanteau word racon stand for? | show 🗑
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| 20 Who was the German supreme commander in western Europe at the time of the D Day Normandy invasion? | show 🗑
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| 31 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ | show 🗑
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| 1 What type of Japanese food are Udon, Soba and Somen? | show 🗑
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| 2 Which London Bridge, designed by John Rennie, was opened in 1817, but rebuilt in 1942? | show 🗑
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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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| show | ALFRED DELLER
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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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| 8 Which discipline deals with questions of values? | show 🗑
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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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| show | CU CHULAINN.
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| 14 Which canal links Venice and Padua? | show 🗑
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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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| show | THE SOPWITH CAMEL
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| 17 Where do the American fighting force, the Green Berets, train? | show 🗑
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| 18 What is a piggin? | show 🗑
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| show | THE WRIST
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| show | BRISTOL
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| 1 What is the cgs unit of magnetic field strength? | show 🗑
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| 2 In the Middle Ages, what was an orphrey? | show 🗑
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| show | THE CARTWHEEL TUPPENCE, WHICH WAS FOUND TO BE TOO HEAVY FOR REGULAR USE
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| 4 What is zydeco? | show 🗑
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| show | THE GADFLY. THE ROMANCE SECTION FROM THE GADFLY SUITE WAS LATER USED AS THE THEME MUSIC FOR THE BBC SERIES, "REILLY, ACE OF SPIES".
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| 6 On which mount is the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem built? | show 🗑
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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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| 10 What is the name that Homer uses for the Greeks besieging Troy? | show 🗑
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| show | IT’S CALLED THE VIEILLE CURE
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| show | HENRIK IBSEN
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| 13 In physics, what gives the change in volume of a solid substance, as the pressure on it is changed? | show 🗑
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| show | IQALUIT
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| show | WESSEX
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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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| 17 In astronomy, what is measured using parallax measurement? | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| 3 What was the nickname of the early 20th century group of American realist painters led by Robert Henri, and sometimes called the Henri group? | show 🗑
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| show | CARBOLIC ACID
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| show | A SLOTH WHICH WEIGHED UP TO FOUR TONS
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| show | AN INDIAN TURBAN OR LIGHT SCARF, HANGING DOWN THE BACK OF A SUN HELMET TO PROTECT THE NECK FROM THE SUN.
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| 7 Which American hero’s horse was called Brigham? | show 🗑
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| show | THE PILUM
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| 9 Off the coast of which American state is Cape Hatteras? | show 🗑
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| 10 What kind of a creature is a titi, which has species called Barbara Brown's, White-eared, Chestnut-bellied and Prince Bernhard's ? | show 🗑
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| 11 How many gallons are there in an anker of beer? | show 🗑
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| show | HARVEY FIRESTONE
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| 13 The artist Jheronimus Van Aken, born in the Netherlands around 1450, is better known by what name? | show 🗑
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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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| 15 Who sang the music hall song “Jolly good luck to the girl who weds a soldier”? | show 🗑
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| show | MRS HENRY WOOD
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| show | ROBERT GRAVES, BEST REMEMBERED FOR "I, CLAUDIUS"
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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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| 1 During World War II, the German operation Herkules, was a never-executed plan for the airborne invasion of which island? | show 🗑
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| show | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
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| 3 From the Italian for “to fry gently”, which term describes vegetables that are softened slowly, and used as a condiment and flavouring? | show 🗑
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| 4 In which US state is Auburn University? | show 🗑
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| show | SAMANTHA WEINBERG
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| 6 Which British conductor, born in Oxford in 1934, conducted the 2008 “Last Night of the Proms” and was the main judge on the 2008 BBC2 TV series “Maestro”? | show 🗑
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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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| show | ZAHIR HADAD
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| show | HONEY
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| 27 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ | show 🗑
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| show | CARTMEL
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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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| 3 Which country lies in Western Africa, and consists of a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Senegal? The two main groups are called the Ilhas Do Barlavento (the Northern islands) and the Ilhas Do Sotavento (the Southern islands). | show 🗑
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| show | THE RED SEA - FORMERLY ETHIOPIAN, THEY ARE NOW PART OF ERITREA
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| show | JEAN-BERTRAND-LEON FOUCAULT
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| show | THE LANGMUIR CIRCULATION
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| show | MARSYAS
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| 8 What is the title of the 2000 Michael Winterbottom film which was based on Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge? | show 🗑
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| 9 Which fruit is available in varieties such as Crenshaw, Galia and Casaba? | show 🗑
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| show | LUCA DELLA ROBBIA
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| show | WILLIAM ORPEN
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| 12 Which French composer published Traite de l'harmonie in 1722, and so founded modern harmonic theory? | show 🗑
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| 13 Who was the Babylonian king, who unified the northern border of Sumer, and established the capital at Akkad around 2371 B.C.? | show 🗑
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| 14 Which Welsh county originally created as Cardiganshire in 1282, is a coastal county, bordered by Cardigan Bay to the west, which lies between the Lleyn and Pembrokeshire peninsulas, Gwynedd to the north, Powys to the east, Carmarthenshire to the south, | show 🗑
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| 15 What is the term coined by Roger Brown and James Killick for a vivid memory of an emotional event? | show 🗑
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| 16 In Hinduism, what name is given the idea that Hindus should strive to be successful and have purpose and material gain in their lives? It is one of the four main goals of life. | show 🗑
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| show | NEOCORTEX
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| show | BOURNEMOUTH
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| show | THE SIXPENCE
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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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| 26 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 03/07/2015 | show 🗑
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| show | ELLEN MCARTHUR
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| 2 Subtitled "How To be Middleclass, Successful and Fulfilled", "Affluenza" is a work concerned with the relationship between wealth and happiness, by which British psychologist, author and broadcaster, who was born in 1953 ? | show 🗑
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| show | JAMES MARSH
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| 4 Who is the current (as at June 2015) prime minister of Russia? | show 🗑
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| show | A FISHING OR PLEASURE BOAT WHICH HAS AN ALUMINIUM HULL.
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| 6 Which tar pit in Los Angeles preserved fossils of mammoths, mastodons and sabre toothed cats? | show 🗑
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| 7 A leading member of the Blue Rider Group, which Russian artist painted "The Blue Mountain" and "Sky Blue"? | show 🗑
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| 8 Boys of which religion were trained to become members of the elite corps of Janissaries? | show 🗑
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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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| show | THE ARM - IT FLEXES THE FOREARM AT THE ELBOW
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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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| show | KENT - ON THE ISLAND OF SHEPPEY
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| show | SANTANDER
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| 14 Which river separates New York from Hoboken and New Jersey? | show 🗑
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| show | THE NORE MUTINY
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| 16 Which Renaissance artist who was born in Orbino in 1483, was greatly influenced by both Leonardo and Michelangelo, following a visit to Florence? | show 🗑
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| 17 Which is the last of the 12 Jewish ecclesiastical months of the year? | show 🗑
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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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| 20 Which of the gospels provided the primary inspiration for the 1971 musical Godspell? | show 🗑
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| show | IT'S A LIME GREEN MOTH
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| 2 Name the Victorian novel that features the characters of Gagool and Twala? | show 🗑
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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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| 4 What was the name of the Ukrainian director of the Paris Opera Ballet who choreographed the 1950 work Phedre? | show 🗑
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| 5 What was the original name of the Turkish town Edirne which was named after the Roman Emperor who rebuilt it in around AD125? | show 🗑
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| show | HAPPY DAYS
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| show | THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE
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| 8 Which contemporary screenwriter and author wrote “A Few Good Men” which was made into a film starring Tom Cruise? | show 🗑
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| show | SQUIRE ALLWORTHY'S
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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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| 11 Which musical instrument did Tommy Riley play for the signature tune of the Navy Lark on radio and Dixon Of Dock Green on television? | show 🗑
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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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| 13 The Palace of Versailles was built in honour of which Greek god? | show 🗑
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| show | DOUBLE INDEMNITY
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| show | ST KILDA
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| show | REGINA
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| show | A FOREIGNER
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| 18 What in Buddhism is paritta? | show 🗑
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| 19 In which George Bernard Shaw play, does the character Eugene Marchbanks appear? | show 🗑
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| show | 8
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| 24 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 01/07/2015 | 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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| show | HENRIETTA
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| show | MASTER MASON
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| show | TAMASHEK
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| show | ARTHROSCOPY
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| show | CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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| 7 In which year was the Bank of England, nationalised into public ownership? | show 🗑
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| show | A JELLYFISH
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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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| 11 In which South American country do the Suya, Wayana and Kayapo Indians live? | show 🗑
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| show | ROBERT PEEL
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| show | THE ELM
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| 14 According to the song, the signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, where does the A Train go to? | show 🗑
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| show | PABLO PICASSO
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| 16 Who played in goal for Fulchester Rovers, in the adult comic Viz? | show 🗑
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| show | THE FIRTH OF TAY
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| show | SIMON MAGUS
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| show | WORT
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| 20 Which material was invented in 1836 by the Frenchman Ignace Dubus-Bonnel, weaving glass with wool or cotton? | show 🗑
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| 23- DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 30/06/2015 | show 🗑
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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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| 5 Which composer’s opera "The Silver Tassie", based on the Sean O'Casey play, was premiered at the London Coliseum in 2000, to great critical acclaim? | show 🗑
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| show | LOCH LINNHE, WHICH IS ONE OF SCOTLAND'S LONGEST SEA LOCHS
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| show | IT'S A STYLE OF WRITING AND TEACHING CURSIVE HANDWRITING FOR ENGLISH
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| show | RAGOUT
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| show | (BERT) AMBROSE
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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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| 11 In the music hall song, who is the deadly enemy of Ivan Gavinski Gavar? | show 🗑
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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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| 13 Also known as the hamadryad, what is the world’s longest poisonous snake? | show 🗑
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| show | ERNEST LUDWIG KIRCHNER, WHO WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF DIE BRUCKE.
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| 15 What does the Third Amendment to the American constitution forbid? | show 🗑
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| 16 Who calculated the value of Pi in 225 BC? | show 🗑
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| 17 In billiards, what name is given to the support for a billiard cue in which a loop is formed by the forefinger and thumb? | show 🗑
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| show | ON YOUR HEAD – IT’S A HAT MADE OF FINE CLOSELY WOVEN STRAW AND COMES FROM THE PHILIPPINES.
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| show | SUBARU (THERE ARE ONLY 6 STARS ON THE SUBARU SIGN AS ONE OF THE STARS OF THE PLEIADES IS INVISIBLE)
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| show | PLACIDO DOMINGO
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| 22 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 29/06/2015 | show 🗑
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| show | MOUNT TABOR WHICH LIES AT THE EASTERN END OF THE JEZREEL VALLEY
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| 2 What kind of a creature is a meloid? | show 🗑
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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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| show | BRISBANE
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| show | KNAPWEED
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| show | HALIFAX
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| show | THE RING NEBULA
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| show | A BATTERY
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| show | GEORGE CUKOR
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| show | LAKME
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| 14 Who set up the Fourth International in 1938? | show 🗑
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| 15 What kind of a garden flower is Frau Karl Druschki, described as the most beautiful white flower? | show 🗑
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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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| show | TITUS
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| show | ACES HIGH WHICH STARRED MALCOLM MCDOWELL AND CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
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| 19 What might a gardener produce in a New Zealand box? | show 🗑
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| show | NICHOLAS CULPEPPER
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| 1 The glenoid cavity, the acromion and the coracoid process are all parts of which human bone? | show 🗑
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| show | HOLLER
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| show | A METRIC TONNE
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| 4 In chemistry, what is the term “m/z” used to describe? | show 🗑
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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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| 10 In which large body of water are Coats Island, Mansel Island and the Belcher Islands to be found ? | show 🗑
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| 11 What were the Christian names of Conservative politician RAB Butler? | show 🗑
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| show | DEBONAIR
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| show | CHICAGO
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| 14 Which basic agricultural tool developed from the “ard” and was used in Mesopotamia and the Indus valley from the 6th century BC? | show 🗑
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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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| show | THE SIMON BOLIVAR ORCHESTRA
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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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| show | LOUISIANA
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| show | LUMINESCENCE OR THE BRIGHTNESS OF A SURFACE.
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| 4 What is the generic name for the class of particles, which included any hadronic particle with a baryon number of zero? | show 🗑
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| show | THE BRITISH ISRAELITES
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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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| 8 Which Roman Emperor issued the edict known as the Constitutio Antoninia in 212 AD, which granted full Roman citizenship to all free men in the Empire, thus removing the long-standing legal distinction between Italians and those from the provinces? | show 🗑
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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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| show | THE CLAYHANGER SERIES BY ARNOLD BENNETT
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| 12 The design of the Beijing Olympic Torch was based on traditional scrolls, and used which traditional Chinese design? | show 🗑
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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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| show | HIPPARCHUS OF NICAEA, WHO IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE FOUNDER OF TRIGONOMETRY
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| 16 What name is given to the enormous anti-cyclonic upstream from the Wake Anomaly, on the surface of Jupiter? | show 🗑
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| 17 Established in Iceland in the 1960s, and now officially recognised by several Scandinavian governments, what is the name of the religious movement whose focus is reviving the Norse paganism of the Viking Age? | show 🗑
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| show | SCEPTICISM
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| 19 In which English cathedral can you see the Jedburgh memorial, which is in the Sprite chapel and is dedicated to the Jedburghs, a Special Forces unit in World War II, who were dropped in uniform into enemy territory, to arm and train Resistance fighters | show 🗑
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| show | ACTIVE WHICH WAS LATER RENAMED "LOCOMOTION"
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| 19 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 26/06/2015 | show 🗑
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| show | DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
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| show | BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE
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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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| 6 Which American choreographer joined with Mikhail Baryshnikov, in setting up the White Oak Dance project? | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| 13 The United Nations building in New York was designed by which architect, in collaboration with the Brazilian architect, Oscar Niemeyer? | show 🗑
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| 14 Who was the Greek goddess of spring? | show 🗑
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| 15 Olga in "Eugene Onegin", Katisha in "The Mikado" and Erda in "Das Rheingold", are all roles for which category of voice? | show 🗑
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| show | PAPUA NEW GUINEA, BRAZIL AND SAMOA
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| show | CECIL BALMOND
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| 18 To which London street did Caxton’s successor, Wynken the Word, move his printing press in about 1500, making it one of the first to be sited there? | show 🗑
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| show | MARYLAND
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| 20 With which song would you particularly associate the old time performer, Eugene Stratton? | show 🗑
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| show | SHIRLEY WILLIAMS
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| 2 Which movie "monster" received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 2004, honouring his 50th birthday? | show 🗑
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| show | IDRIS THE DRAGON
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| show | THE BAUHINIA WHICH IS THE FLORAL SYMBOL OF HONG KONG
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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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| show | THE HAMMOND ORGAN
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| 7 In the Irish writer, Oliver Goldsmith’s play, "She Stoops To Conquer", what is the name of the family, whose home is mistaken for an inn? | show 🗑
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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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| show | THE AMAZON WHICH TOOK HIM 66 DAYS. MARTIN STREL, WHO IS KNOWN AS “FISH MAN”, HAD PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED SWIMMING THE YANGTZE, THE MISSISSIPPI AND THE DANUBE.
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| show | FERRIC OXIDE
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| show | GURMUKHI.
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| show | ARBROATH
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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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| show | EDMUND CRISPIN
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| 18 In which American city will you find the infamous Viper Room Club? | show 🗑
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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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| show | THE SPASMODIC SCHOOL. AYTOUN PARODIES THEIR SPASMS IN HIS MOCK TRAGEDY FIRMILIAN.
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| show | LITTLE DORRIT
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| show | JACOB EPSTEIN
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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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| 8 Which prestigious dancing institution celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2006, although under its current title, it was only the 50th anniversary? | show 🗑
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| 9 If the original meaning holds true, members of a company would share what? | show 🗑
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| 10 In ancient Greece, swimming races were held in honour of which god? | show 🗑
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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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| 17 What is another name for the bird, the water ouzel? | show 🗑
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| 18 The North American nebula is a region in which constellation, which lies on the plane of the Milky Way? | show 🗑
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| 19 What was another name for the Bye plot, directed against James I in 1603? | show 🗑
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| 20 What name is given to a clapperless metal bell, that is played as a percussion instrument by being struck with a drumstick? | show 🗑
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| 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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| show | JOHN BERGER
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| 4 What is the name given to the part of the germinating seed that grows into the shoot? | show 🗑
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| 5 Which 1923 opera by Gustav Holst, opens with ballet music representing the spirits of earth, water, and fire? | show 🗑
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| show | JOHN F ENDERS
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| 7 The Douglas DC-3 aircraft was also known by what name in wartime Britain? | show 🗑
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| show | OFRA HARNOY
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| 9 Which English poet wrote the words to the tango “Jealousy”? | show 🗑
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| show | THE GIAOUR
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| show | COUNT ROSTOPCHIN
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| show | NITRIC ACID
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| show | THE SHEAR MODULUS
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| show | THE EXPLORERS
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| show | THE BASSOONS
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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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| show | JOHN MUIR (1838-1914)
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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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| 1 Which South American city is built on the slopes of the volcano Pichincha, which last erupted in 1999, when several inches of ash fell on the city? | show 🗑
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| show | THE BLACK NECKED STORK WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE JABIRU
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| 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 🗑
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| 4 In which English county is Peveril Castle, an ruined early medieval castle which overlooks the village of Castleton? | show 🗑
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| 5 Which British astronomer, born in Haggerston, Middlesex in 1656, was the second Astronomer Royal and developed a diving bell for deep sea exploration in 1721? | show 🗑
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| 6 What was the route between Dover and London nicknamed during World War II? | show 🗑
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| 7 Which was the first Royal Naval ship to carry women personnel to sea? | show 🗑
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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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| show | NIGEL GRESLEY
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| show | ADMIRAL THOMAS COCHRANE, THE 10TH EARL OF DUNDONALD (1775-1860)
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| show | BODMIN, CORNWALL AND MANSFIELD, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.
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| show | THE BENTINCK FAMILY, THE DUKES OF PORTLAND.
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| show | MARY CARPENTER
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| show | HECTOR BERLIOZ (1803-1869)
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| 18 In Japanese cookery, what is an okonomiyaki? | show 🗑
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| 19 Which Dublin born celebrity gardener, who was born in 1964, has likened his own flamboyant landscape designs to some of the more outrageous outfits worn by models on catwalks? | show 🗑
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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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| 14 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 21/06/2015 | 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 🗑
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| 4 As what, are the islands, previously known as the Danish West Indies, now known? | show 🗑
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| 5 What is the name of the awards, established in 1995, to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year? | show 🗑
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| show | VERMILION
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| 7 Named after physicist Douglas Hartree, the hartree is the atomic unit of what? | show 🗑
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| show | JEAN MONNET (1888-1979)
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|
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| 9 What is the "joke" which gives Haydn’s String Quartet in E flat its name? | show 🗑
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| show | ALISON UTTLEY
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| show | OMAR BRADLEY
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| 12 In which Spanish city is the Juan Miro Foundation (a museum of modern art honouring the Spanish artist)? | show 🗑
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| show | LICHEN
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| show | FAILURE
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| 15 In 1802, the first of a series of Acts of Parliament was passed, to limit the number of hours worked by women and children in the textile industry. By what collective name were these acts known? | show 🗑
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| 16 Which gas burns with a bluish flame and produces the phenomenon will-o’-the-wisp over marshland? | show 🗑
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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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| 18 As at May 2015 , who is the Secretary of State for Transport? | show 🗑
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| show | VINCENT NICHOLS
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| 20 Who used to say on the radio – “Not a word to Bessie!”? | show 🗑
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| show |
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| 1 In which year did Robert Peary reach (or claim to have reached) the North Pole? | show 🗑
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| 2 Which film is based on the true story of Homer Hickam, whose ambition led to a career with NASA, training astronauts for shuttle missions and was based on the memoir "Rocket Boys" by Homer Hickam? | show 🗑
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| show | A SANDWICH
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| show | CARBON
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| 5 Which is the heaviest non-radioactive element? | show 🗑
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| 6 One of I M Pei’s most well-known designs is which building, that has two overlapping glass pyramids attached to several cement-outlined blocks and cylinders? It sits in Cleveland. | show 🗑
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| 7 Which prison is located in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham? | show 🗑
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| show | DINE'S COMPENSATION
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| 9 The credit for creating which dessert goes to famed French chef, Georges Auguste Escoffier, who prepared it in honour of one of Queen Victoria’s celebrations? | show 🗑
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| 10 Which famous French aviator and writer gave his name to the international airport serving Lyon? | show 🗑
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| show | DYSCRASIA
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| show | BENEDICT IX
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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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| 15 The concept that microprocessors double in complexity and power every two years, is known as what? | show 🗑
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| show | THE CORRECTIVE REVOLUTION
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| 17 The worst such disaster in recorded European history, what sort of natural phenomenon caused the deaths of approximately 600 people on the island of Malta, in 1551? | show 🗑
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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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| 12 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 19/06/2015 | show 🗑
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| 1 What is the traditional date of Christmas Day, in the Russian Orthodox church? | show 🗑
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| 2 What name is given to the joint programme of the Worldwide Fund for Nature and the World Conservation Union, that monitors trade in endangered species? | show 🗑
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| show | THE DRUMS
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| 4 What is the name of the king of Tonga, who succeeded to the title in 2012 on the death of his father, who was nicknamed "Tippy Toes"? | show 🗑
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| 5 The 2003 Truman Capote award for literary criticism went to which poet, for his collection of prose written between 1971 and 2001 and entitled "Finders, Keepers"? | show 🗑
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| 6 Which New Zealand poet called her first collection "The Eye Of The Hurricane"? | show 🗑
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| 7 What nickname was given to the A10 Thunderbolt tankbuster aircraft, which is the only USAF production aircraft designed solely for close air support, including attacking tanks, armoured vehicles and other ground targets with limited air defences? | show 🗑
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| 8 What name did Richard Wright give to his account of his early life in Mississippi and then Chicago? | show 🗑
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| show | GAS – IN 1648 HE DERIVED IT FROM THE GREEK WORD CHAOS.
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|
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| show | ROBERT SCHUMANN
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| show | AUGUSTE RODIN
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| show | JOHN COLTRANE
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| show | THIO
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| show | BORIC OXIDE
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| show | MARGATE
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| show | DAN LENO
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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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| 18 According to legend, which Chinese poet, banished by his king, wrote a very sad poem about political corruption and then killed himself by wading into the Miluo river, holding a heavy rock. His neighbours tried unsuccessfully to rescue him in fishing | show 🗑
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| show | A LONG NECKLACE OR PENDANT ON A LONG CHAIN.
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| show | A DRAGON
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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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| show | THE LONDON COLISEUM
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|
||||
| 4 What was the name of the British painter and exponent of Pop Art, who designed the sets and costumes for the stage revue "Oh! Calcutta!"? | show 🗑
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| 5 Which Athenian politician was the founder of Athenian democracy? | show 🗑
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| show | THE COWSLIP
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| show | DISCWORLD
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| 8 The Barnacles, an incompetent family of obstructive officials in the Government’s Circumlocution Office, appear in which Charles Dickens’ novel? | show 🗑
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| 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.
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| 10 Who is the only man to have been prime minister and father of the house, at the same time? | show 🗑
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| 11 Which blues musician who died in 2001, recorded the songs "I’m In The Mood", "Boom Boom" and "Boogie Chillum"? | show 🗑
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| 12 Which British broadcaster and author, born in Carlisle in 1939, wrote the screenplays for "Isadora" and "Jesus Christ, Superstar"? | show 🗑
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| 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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| 14 What is a rishi? | show 🗑
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| show | THE GRAND CANAL
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|
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| show | THE BOWMAN SYSTEM
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|
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| show | SUSAN HILL
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| show | ALBERT EINSTEIN
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| 19 Which small town on the river Saur, lies about 7 miles north of Leicester, and became famous for its locally quarried pinkish-grey granite building stones? | show 🗑
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| 20 On which satellite of Jupiter, would you find the volcanoes Loki and Ra Petara? | show 🗑
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| show |
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| show | THE MASCARENE ISLANDS
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| 2 In Hinduism, who is the most celebrated of the deities whose story is told in the Mahabarata? | show 🗑
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| 3 What was the alliterative nickname of the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, named after their smart appearance in a recruiting poster of 1809? | show 🗑
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| show | TO GO WITHOUT DINNER
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| show | BRADENHAM HAM
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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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| 8 Which famous economist resigned from the Treasury in 1919, because of his opposition to the economic terms of the Treaty of Versailles? | show 🗑
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| show | THE HOLLOW MEN
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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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| show | TINTERN ABBEY
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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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| show | BEN NEVIS
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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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| 1 Which English dramatist who was born in 1932 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, wrote the plays Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices? | show 🗑
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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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| show | REMNANTS OR SHORT LENGTHS OF CLOTH, OFTEN FAULTY, ARISING FROM PROCESSING, AND SOLD CHEAP.
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| show | IMPOSITION.
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| show | THE FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET
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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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| show | IN SWEDEN. IT WAS INSPIRED BY INGMAR BERMAN'S FILM "SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT"
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| show | THE BAHAMAS
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| show | ACRE - IT WAS ONE OF NAPOLEON'S FEW DEFEATS
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| 12 Volume 1 was entitled “My Father Bleeds History”. Volume 2 was called “And There My Troubles Began”. Together they tell of Vladek Spiegelman’s ordeal in the Polish ghettos and Auschwitz. What is the title of this Pulitzer winning novel? | show 🗑
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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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| show | THE HASTY PUDDING
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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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| show | THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. IN 2013, IT WAS AWARDED TO SYLVIA EARL, A BIOLOGIST FOR MARINE EXPLORATION, JAMES CAMERON THE FILM DIRECTOR FOR MARINE EXPLORATION AND TO E O WILSON, A BIOLOGIST FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
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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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| show | 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?
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| show |
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| 1 Who wrote the first mediaeval text book on surgery in 1170? | show 🗑
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| show | IT’S A COLOURFUL STORK OF TROPICAL AFRICA WITH AN EXCEPTIONALLY LONG THIN LEGS AND NECK.
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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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| 4 Which naval port stands opposite Portsmouth, on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour? | show 🗑
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| show | FRED HOYLE WHO DIED IN 2001
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| show | ST JAMES PARK. (ST JAMES THE LESS)
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| show | FRANCIS BACON, WHO WAS APPOINTED BY ELIZABETH I AS QUEEN'S COUNSEL EXTRAORDINARY.
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| 8 What do broomrape, dodder and toothwort have in common? | show 🗑
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| show | ZACHARY TAYLOR (IN OFFICE 1849-1850)
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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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| 12 Born in London in 1913, which English fashion and portrait photographer was associated with Vogue and Queen magazines and from the late 1960s, took many official portraits of the Royal family? | show 🗑
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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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| show | THE ARMINIANS
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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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| 18 With which card game, do you most closely associate the name of Ely Culbertson? | show 🗑
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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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| 7 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 14/06/2015 | 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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| 3 Ordained in 1291, which Franciscan theologian who lectured at Oxford and Paris, was known as the Doctor Subtilis or Subtle Doctor? | show 🗑
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| 4 How is World War II referred to, in the Republic of Ireland? | show 🗑
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| 5 What name is given to a jewelled headband, or the arch of a crown? | show 🗑
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| show | MALCOLM RIFKIND
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| show | SPEED AND LAUNCE
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| show | THE MV EXPLORER
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||||
| 9 The International Day of the Older Person is on the first day of which month? | show 🗑
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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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| show | CANALETTO
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||||
| show | A WEEPING WILLOW
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| show | LETTUCE
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| show | ZERO
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||||
| show | YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS
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| show | JET LI
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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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||||
| 19 Which British actress is the face of Chanel's "Coco Mademoiselle" fragrance? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | RUDYARD KIPLING
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||||
| 6 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 13/06/2015 | 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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| show | ALBERT CAMUS
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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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| 5 Which Roman goddess of the arts was worshipped in the Capitoline temple, along with Jupiter and Juno, in the trio of Roman deities? | show 🗑
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| 6 In 1935, the London Symphony Orchestra recorded the score by Sir Arthur Bliss for which science fiction film? | show 🗑
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| show | MONT ST MICHEL
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| show | TITUS
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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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| show | THE AUFBAU PRINCIPLE
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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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| 17 The Giant Unicorn became extinct in prehistoric times. It was, of course, not a unicorn but instead it was an ancient relative of which modern mammal? | show 🗑
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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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| show | CHARLES-AUGUSTIN DE COULOMB
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| show |
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| 1 In 2013, which British illustrator and fashion designer created the installation "Ladies Let Rip" for Bath in Fashion at the Holbourne Museum. | show 🗑
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||||
| 2 The oil used for the anointing of the sovereign from the coronation of Henry IV until Tudor times, was supposedly given by the Virgin Mary to which saint? | show 🗑
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| show | THE CLARINET
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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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||||
| 7 Light sensitive photographic film uses which main element? | show 🗑
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| 8 Of which species is the Turkana Boy, the most complete known skeleton? | show 🗑
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||||
| 9 Between which two Alabama cities, did Martin Luther King make his Freedom Walk in 1965? | show 🗑
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||||
| 10 Which politician, MP for Lewisham Deptford until she stood down in 2015, was first elected to the House of Commons in 1987 and was the Chair of the CND from 1981 to 1985? | show 🗑
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||||
| 11 Which organization uses the slogan “Unity, Loyalty, Patriotism and Comradeship”? | show 🗑
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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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||||
| show | THE DELMARVA PENINSULA (DELAWARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA)
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| show | GEORGE W BUSH
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||||
| 18 Which 1971 novel arose from the author’s Sports Illustrated assignment to cover the Mint 400 desert motocross? | show 🗑
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||||
| 19 What is the main city of Kurdish Iraq? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | JULIAN BARNES
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| 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 🗑
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||||
| show | IT DOESN'T HAVE A POUCH
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||||
| show | WILTSHIRE
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||||
| 4 What was the main title of Harold MacMillan’s influential 1938 book, which advocated more government intervention in economic and political affairs? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | ILLYRIA
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|
||||
| 6 Which Warwickshire town, which lies on the river Anker, is almost surrounded by motorways? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | AUGUSTUS CAESAR
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||||
| 8 Where does the M69 meet the M1? | show 🗑
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||||
| 9 Which is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth’s crust, after feldspar? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE SILVER CASKET
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||||
| show | THE ICHNEUMON
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||||
| 12 In which English county is Sir Thomas Tresham’s Triangular Lodge, which is made of limestone and ironstone to give a striped effect? | show 🗑
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||||
| 13 Which fine red wine comes from the left bank of the Gironde Estuary? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | ARMCO
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||||
| show | THE KAKAPO WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE OWL PARROT
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|
||||
| 16 Who was the leader of a group of artists called The Ancients, due to their love of the mediaeval, and who were inspired by William Blake? | show 🗑
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| 17 What kind of artistic business was carried on in the 19th century, by the American artists Nathaniel Currier and James M Ives? | show 🗑
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| 18 Which 19th century English painter’s works include Rent Day In the Wilderness? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | GEORG RIEMANN
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||||
| show | JOSEPH BAZALGETTE WHO ALSO DESIGNED THE NEW BATTERSEA, HAMMERSMITH AND PUTNEY BRIDGES.
🗑
|
||||
| 3 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 11/06/2015 | show 🗑
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||||
| show | MAGENTA
🗑
|
||||
| show | PURIRI WOOD (WHICH IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE NEW ZEALAND TEAK, OAK OR WALNUT)
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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 🗑
|
||||
| show | SOFIA COPPOLA
🗑
|
||||
| show | JOHN LAW (1671-1729)
🗑
|
||||
| 9 Since the mid 1980s, the name of which former Watford and AC Milan footballer has been used by Italian anarchists? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 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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||||
| 11 Which British poet and novelist wrote Image of a Society? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | MAAT WHOSE OSTRICH FEATHER REPRESENTED TRUTH
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| 13 Which novelist (1934-2006) who is regarded as one of the most important Irish writers of the latter part of the 20th century, wrote "Amongst Women", "The Barracks" and "The Dark"? | show 🗑
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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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||||
| 15 In 1897, the actor William Terriss was murdered outside which theatre in the Strand, his ghost being said to haunt the place? | show 🗑
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||||
| 16 Which English composer’s works include the Ballet Cafe Des Sports? He was widely known for his books of musical analysis and for his radio programmes "Talking About Music"? | show 🗑
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||||
| 17 What is the name of the region of North West Italy which lies in the foothills of the Alps? Dominated by Savoy from 1400, it became a part of the kingdom of Sardinia in 1720 and the centre of the movement for a united Italy in the late 19th century? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | SWANS
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||||
| show | WANSDYKE
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|
||||
| show | AESCHYLUS
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|
||||
| 2 - DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 10/06/2015 | 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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||||
| show | BEETHOVEN
🗑
|
||||
| 3 Who were the English and Scottish lieutenants of the Marches, whose death in battle is described in the ballad of Chevy Chase? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | D H LAWRENCE WHO WAS PLAYED BY IAN MCKELLEN
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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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||||
| show | ZEPHANIAH.
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|
||||
| 7 What name did Charles II taken when disguised as Jane Lane’s servant during his escape in 1651? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 8 What is forrell? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE PARANA
🗑
|
||||
| show | SIR AMBROSE FLEMING (1849-1945)
🗑
|
||||
| show | JOACHIM MURAT (1767-1815) WHO WAS KNOWN AS THE DANDY KING
🗑
|
||||
| 12 What is rhyolite? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 13 Named after a 10th century Bulgarian priest, which Slavic sect was an offshoot of the Byzantine Paulicians and also borrowed from Gnosticism and Manichaeism? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | BROCA’S AREA.
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|
||||
| 15 Which is the state bird of Ohio? | show 🗑
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||||
| 16 Which playwright wrote over 100 plays of Greek new comedy, of which only one has been found intact? It’s called The Curmudgeon and was discovered on an Egyptian papyrus in 1958? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | THE GLUON
🗑
|
||||
| 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
🗑
|
||||
| show | EUKARYOTES
🗑
|
||||
| 1. DAPHNE'S DAILY QUIZ 09/06/205 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | NANTUCKET
🗑
|
||||
| 2 What name is given to the cement or mortar slope around a chimney? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | DERBYSHIRE (IT’S NEAR BAKEWELL).
🗑
|
||||
| 4 What was the Treasure of Dongo? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 5 After killing Desdemona, Othello is relieved of his command. Which officer is made ruler of Cyprus in his stead? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 6 Which renowned French writer died in an insane asylum in 1893? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | EAST CENTRAL NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND.
🗑
|
||||
| 8 What name is given to the small cubes of marble, glass and other substances used in the making of mosaics? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | ST ROSALIA.
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|
||||
| 10 What is Bernoulli’s Principle? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | SCULPTURE. “FAMILY GOING FOR A WALK” IS ONE OF HIS BEST KNOWN PIECES.
🗑
|
||||
| 12 Born in New York, which Viscount, after a period as American minister to Italy, emigrated to Britain and became a newspaper proprietor, acquiring the Pall Mall Gazette, the Pall Mall Magazine and the Observer in 1911? | show 🗑
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||||
| 13 The Starlight Barking is the sequel to which much loved children’s book? | show 🗑
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||||
| 14 In 1920, Sir Eric Drummond became the first Secretary General of which international organisation? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 15 Which musical hall star (1863-1943) sang the song “At Trinity Church, I met my doom”? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | JOHN BAILLIOL
🗑
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||||
| show | BAGHDAD.
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|
||||
| 18 What part of a mussel is its byssus? | show 🗑
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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 🗑
|
||||
| show | JAMES STARLEY (1831-1851)
🗑
|
||||
| #REF! | show 🗑
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