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| Which Timurid ruler (1394-1449) was a tenacious astronomer and catalogued over 1000 stars? | show 🗑
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| show | Betelgeuse
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| show | Lemon and Almond Tart
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| show | Atalanta
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| show | Marenka and Janik
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| Who composed "The Girl Of The Golden West"? | show 🗑
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| show | Monteverdi
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| show | David Guetta
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| show | Pixie Lott
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| Who had a 1996 hit with "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted"? | show 🗑
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| show | William and Catherine Booth
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| show | All Shook Up
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| show | Heartbreak Hotel
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| show | Violin
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| Actress Sachi Parker is the daughter of which actress - Sachi wrote a controversial book about her mother, which the latter described as 'virtually all fiction'? | show 🗑
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| Which Dylan Thomas poem, originally published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, is an example of the 19-line vilanelle form? | show 🗑
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| show | Vilanelle
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| show | Theodore Roethke
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| show | Rainer Maria Rilke
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| show | John Burroughs
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| Which Pacific nation doesn't have a capital? | show 🗑
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| Based on issue of charter, what is the UK's oldest city? | show 🗑
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| What is the administrative HQ of Yorkshire's East Riding? | show 🗑
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| In which store, in 1898, was Britain's first escalator installed? | show 🗑
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| show | Hilary Term
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| show | Newport
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| In which county is the source of the River Thames? | show 🗑
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| show | Oxford
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| show | East Sussex
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| show | Leeds
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| show | Ligurian
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| In which English county is Powderham Castle? | show 🗑
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| In Roman times, which UK town was the 'Spa Of The Goddess Of The Grove'? | show 🗑
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| Give a year in the life of Pythagoras. | show 🗑
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| show | Seshat
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| What was the Egyptian concept of 'isfet'? | show 🗑
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| Who founded the Stoic school of Hellenistic Philosophy? | show 🗑
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| The concept 'asha' is of central importance to which religion and theology? | show 🗑
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| What is the ancient Egyptian principle of truth, justice and regularity in the universe, depicted as a Goddess? | show 🗑
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| What is the Islamic term for the 'last judgement'? | show 🗑
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| show | Tanakh
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| Meaning "prophets", what is the second main division of the Hebrew Bible? | show 🗑
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| show | Ketuvim
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| show | Yad
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| How many books are there in the Old Testament? | show 🗑
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| show | 24
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| show | Commandments
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| show | 6th BC (586-538BCE)
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| Meaning 'common dialect' which form of Greek was widely spoken and written during Hellenistic and Roman antiquity and the early Byzantine era, or Late Antiquity, and was the lingua franca of much of the Mediterranean at this time? | show 🗑
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| show | 27
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| show | Prison Epistles
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| How are the New Testament books the First Epistle to Timothy (1 Timothy) the Second Epistle to Timothy (2 Timothy), and the Epistle to Titus collectively known, because of the people to whom they were addressed? | show 🗑
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| Irenaeus (early 2nd century – died c. AD 202) was an early Christian theologian and bishop of which city? | show 🗑
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| show | Athanasius of Alexandria
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| show | Winged lion
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| show | Eagle
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| A sometimes-winged version of which animal is used in tradition to depict the gospel writer Luke? | show 🗑
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| Other than his eponymous gospel, Luke is also held to be the author of which New Testament book? | show 🗑
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| In which decade were the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered? | show 🗑
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| show | Esther
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| show | Ancient Egyptians (it is where souls were judged)
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| show | Cremation
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| show | Hero of Alexandria
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| What are the five elements of the Chinese concept Wu Xing? | show 🗑
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| n Ancient Egyptian belief, Anubis weighed an individual's heart against what to determine its purity (or otherwise)? | show 🗑
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| show | Ammit
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| show | Wushu
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| What regular event was first held in 776BC, and continues, in a much-modified form, today? | show 🗑
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| show | Belly dancing
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| In which religion is individual judgment at death is by the Bridge of Judgment, which each human must cross? | show 🗑
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| Which then-important city in Judah was laid siege and then conquered by Assyrians in 701BC - the event is mentioned by several sources in the Hebrew Bible? | show 🗑
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| Which Pope, for whom the Gregorian calendar was named, dictated the need for a change from the Julian calendar? | show 🗑
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| Which calendar - in legend - dates back to 2637BC, but is definitely still used today? | show 🗑
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| In 1965, who was the first American to walk in space? | show 🗑
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| show | Torpedo
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| show | Peninsula and Oriental
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| show | Prince Eugen
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| Give a year in the life of Francis Bacon (the philosopher and Lord Chancellor of England). | show 🗑
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| What type of creature is a wapiti? | show 🗑
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| show | Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
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| Which (1906-64) English author was best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King? | show 🗑
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| Give a year in the life of Robert Burns. | show 🗑
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| show | 1704-54
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| show | Édouard Manet
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| show | Mervyn Peake
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| show | Henry James
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| show | Leo Tolstoy
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| show | WH Auden
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| show | Jurgen Schult
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| show | Javier Sotomayor
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| The 'Luxury', 'Degradation' and 'Inflatables' serieses were all notable works by which artist? | show 🗑
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| show | Elisabeth Frink
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| show | Richard Ayoade
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| Which poet laureate wrote the play "Epsom Wells" (1672)? | show 🗑
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| show | 1631-1700
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| How was the first Marchioness of Pembroke (1504-36) better known? | show 🗑
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| Who was Time magazine's "person of the 20th century"? | show 🗑
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| Which bird is coturnix coturnix? | show 🗑
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| show | Chester A Arthur
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| What is Britain's longest river? | show 🗑
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| In which US state is the Canyonlands National Park? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to the small humanoid and animal figurines made during the late Jōmon period (14,000–400 BC) of prehistoric Japan? | show 🗑
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| 'Epipalaeolithic' is sometimes used synonymously with which term, first used in 1866 by Hodder Westrop? | show 🗑
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| show | Enuma Elish
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| Which Aztec God was the national God of the Aztecs, God of the capital Tenochtitlan, and God of both war and human sacrifice? | show 🗑
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| Which pre-Socratic philosopher was known as "The Weeping Philosopher"? | show 🗑
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| show | Konya
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| show | Beer (in brewing it is the separation of the wort and grain)
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| show | Jomon (Japan)
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| show | Obsidian
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| What name is given to a dome structure where circles interesct to form triangular elements on a lattice, spreading stress across the structure and thus stabilising it? | show 🗑
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| What is the largest city in Moravia? | show 🗑
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| Which Epipalaeolithic culture of the Levant, existing 13,000 to 9,800 B.C is notable for being sedentary (or semi-sedentary) before the development of true agriculture? | show 🗑
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| Which wild ancestor of cattle became extinct in 1627? | show 🗑
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| A symbolic engraving on rock, some examples of which predate formal language, are known by what general name from the Greek 'carved stone'? | show 🗑
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| What name was given to tree-nymphs in Greek myth, from the Greek for 'oak'? | show 🗑
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| show | Lion and man ('The Lion Man Of Hohlenstein Stadel')
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| Where do Tungusic peoples live? | show 🗑
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| show | Neolithic
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| Stuttgart stands on which river? | show 🗑
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| show | Homo Heidelbergensis
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| show | Aghori
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| Which geological epoch preceded the Holocene? | show 🗑
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| show | Homo antecessor
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| show | Horus
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| show | Paris
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| show | Mortimer Adler
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| show | Cognate
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| show | Dowry
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| show | Peleus
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| In The Odyssey, who is the happy ruler of the Phaiacians in the island of Scheria? | show 🗑
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| Which script was used for writing Mycenaean Greek? | show 🗑
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| Quentin Matsys helped found which school of painting named for a European city? | show 🗑
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| Which 1509 essay by Erasmus, published in 1511, became one of the most influential Renaissance texts? | show 🗑
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| show | Desiderius
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| show | Ottoman
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| show | The Granth Sahib - the holy book of Sikhism
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| What does the Punjabi word 'Sikh' mean? | show 🗑
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| Give a year in the life of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak. | show 🗑
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| show | Pico della Mirandola
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| Which is the world's second largest lake? | show 🗑
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| Which gulf is the largest on the southern Australian coast? | show 🗑
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| show | J. Paul Getty
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| Which famous art historian and MP built Strawberry Hill House from 1749 onwards? | show 🗑
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| Who was the real-life inspiration behind 'Citizen Kane'? | show 🗑
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| What is Macedonia's currency? | show 🗑
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| Highgrove and Gatcombe are both in which English county? | show 🗑
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| show | Niagara Falls
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| Who assumed command of the world's first circumnavigation voyage when Magellan was killed in the Philippines? | show 🗑
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| show | Laptev
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| show | Erie and Ontario
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| show | John Cabot
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| show | Santa Maria, Nina, Pinta
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| Which trade union was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers and the General and Municipal Workers' Union? | show 🗑
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| Which female American rapper, dancer, and record producer had a top 10 hit in 2002 with the song “Work It”? | show 🗑
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| show | Canned Heat
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| show | Lanthanides
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| What name is given to a group of six chemical elements in column 2 of the Periodic table including Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, and Radium? | show 🗑
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| Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator-X and Professor Griff were all founder members of which hip-hop group formed in Long Island, New York in 1986? | show 🗑
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| show | Jan Wyck
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| show | Kroon
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| Crete, Corinth and Sparta were populated in ancient times by which of the four Ancient Greek ethnic groups? | show 🗑
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| Which Egyptian goddess had the head of a cat? | show 🗑
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| What is the nickname of the drug 'cocktail' that is thought to have killed River Phoenix? | show 🗑
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| show | Synapse
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| show | Amines
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| show | Ecstasy
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| In 'Pride & Prejudice', what is Mr Darcy's first name? | show 🗑
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| In 'Pride & Prejudice', what is Mr Darcy's residence called? | show 🗑
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| show | Georgia
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| show | Blue Streak
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| show | Tongking Gulf
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| show | Gulf of Arabia
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| show | Kerry
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| show | Yukon
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| show | Avon
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| In both 1529 and 1673 the Ottomans, ultimately unsuccessfully, besieged which city | show 🗑
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| Which Turko-Mongol ruler, reigning 1370-1405, ruled a large area of West, South and Central Asia, and was the great-great-great grandfather of the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, Babur? | show 🗑
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| At which 1260 battle, near Nazareth, did Mamluk Muslims defeat Mongols? | show 🗑
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| How is the Sea Eagle, found in the UK, more correctly known? | show 🗑
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| show | Unplasticised
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| Which bird has the thickest skull in relation to its size? | show 🗑
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| show | Cigars
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| show | Playtex
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| show | Lockheed
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| show | Alvis
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| show | Ranulph Fiennes
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| What name was given to a 17th century chair with shafts that was borne by two servants? | show 🗑
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| show | Austin
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| show | One hundred
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| The Monserrate and Guadulupe mountains dominate the eastern border of which city? | show 🗑
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| show | Ferdinand VII
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| show | Fernando Botero
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| show | George Clinton (Jefferson, Madison); John C. Calhoun (Quincy Adams, Jackson)
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| Nadezhda von Meck supported which composer financially for 13 years, allowing him to go professional? | show 🗑
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| show | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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| Which author married Sophia Behrs in 1862? | show 🗑
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| From which country did Panama win its independence in 1903? | show 🗑
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| show | Mazeppa
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| show | Tchaikovsky
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| What is Louisiana's capital? | show 🗑
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| What is Iowa's capital? | show 🗑
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| What is Illinois' capital? | show 🗑
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| show | Cape St Vincent
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| show | Cape Farewell
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| n which Canadian province is the Bay of Fundy? | show 🗑
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| The Gulf of Lions is off the SW coast of which country? | show 🗑
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| show | Murray-Darling
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| What is Canada's highest mountain? | show 🗑
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| In which mountain range is Mount Elbrus? | show 🗑
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| Which 1071 battle saw the Seljuk Turks decisively defeat the Byzantine army, leading to the 'Turkification' of Anatolia? | show 🗑
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| What nickname is given to the giant American transport plane, the C5, in operation since 1969? | show 🗑
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| show | White-tailed eagle (sea eagle)
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| Which British aircraft company made cars, buses and trucks after WW2 - it also won class victories at Le Mans in 1954 and the ill-fated 1955 race? | show 🗑
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| Which gas is produced when water is mixed with calcium chloride? | show 🗑
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| In which city did a bombing take place at a labour demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square? | show 🗑
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| In which month is Labor Day in the USA? | show 🗑
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| show | Aqua Regia
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| show | A lack of money
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| What type of creature is a smew? | show 🗑
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| Which famous chemist was executed in the French Revolution, on 8th May 1794? | show 🗑
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| What is brontophobia the morbid fear of? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to one who studies caves? | show 🗑
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| show | Architecture
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| show | Thistle (Asteraceae)
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| show | Gulf of St Lawrence
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| show | Bunting (Emberizidae)
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| show | To make it easier to distinguish cancellation marks
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| show | Monopsony
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| Which animal disease, caused by a virus in the orthopoxvirus family, helped develop the smallpox vaccination? | show 🗑
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| As of 2017, what is the minimum legal depth on a car tyre's tread in the UK? | show 🗑
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| show | Sir Isaac Newton
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| 'Stretcher bond' & 'English Bond' are used in which profession? | show 🗑
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| show | Five
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| show | Pig
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| What was the name of the former British minesweeper converted into a research vessel for Jacques Cousteau in 1951? | show 🗑
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| What function is served by thole pins on a boat? | show 🗑
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| What is a plant's male reproductive organ called? | show 🗑
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| show | Fashion design
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| show | Aerosol
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| show | Adsorption
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| show | Adiabatic
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| hat do an acid and a base combine to form? | show 🗑
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| To the nearest whole number, what is absolute zero in Fahrenheit? | show 🗑
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| show | Busy Lizzie
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| How is the plant 'Ilex' better known? | show 🗑
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| show | Sunflower
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| show | Cancer
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| show | Wireless Application Protocol
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| show | Harrison
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| Which shrub is commonly called the 'Butterfly Bush'? | show 🗑
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| show | Subscriber Identity Module
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| How were the company 'Green Flag' known prior to 1995? | show 🗑
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| show | Actinobiology
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| show | Tree Mallow
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| How is E300, L-Ascorbic Acid, better known? | show 🗑
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| show | Glera
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| Although also a violinist and trumpeter, Ornette Coleman is most associated with which instrument? | show 🗑
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| show | Sparkling
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| show | Guinevere
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| In Arthurian legend, King Ban of Benwick was the father of which Knight of the Round Table? | show 🗑
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| show | Goji Berry
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| Which band, formed in 1967, were named after a house in Muswell Hill? | show 🗑
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| show | Felix Mendelssohn
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| Who wrote the words to 'Amazing Grace'? | show 🗑
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| Who is Rufus Wainwright's singer father? | show 🗑
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| show | Judges
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| Which book of the Bible tells of the parting of the Red Sea? | show 🗑
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| show | Bouquet Garni
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| Which Mozart opera premiered just 10 weeks before his death? | show 🗑
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| show | Prokofiev
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| What is the British name for what the French call 'Boudin Noir'? | show 🗑
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| show | Talmud
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| show | Barry Manilow
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| show | Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar
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| show | Hephaestus
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| In myth, which creatures interrupted a wedding feast to abduct Greek women, an event memorably depicted on the Parthenon frieze? | show 🗑
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| King David committed adultery with whose wife in the Bible? | show 🗑
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| show | Zeus
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| Which Jewish author (1135-1202) wrote 'Mishneh Torah' and 'A Guide For The Perplexed'? | show 🗑
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| show | Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
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| In Norse myth, what is the abode of the gods? | show 🗑
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| show | Kate McGarrigle
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| show | Middle of the Road
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| Which Italian porridge of boiled cornmeal, takes its name from the Latin for "fine flour"? | show 🗑
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| show | Chile
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| show | Jezebel
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| show | Jerry Moss
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| show | Herb Alpert
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| show | The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
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| show | 80
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| Give a year in the life of the cook, Mrs Beeton. | show 🗑
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| show | Alicia Keys and Jack White
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| show | Carousel
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| show | 1797-1828
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| show | The Stranger in Grey
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| show | Mark Elder
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| Which pupil of Mozart's completed his Requiem Mass? | show 🗑
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| show | Alto
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| In music, what is equivalent to two quavers? | show 🗑
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| Which position is held by the spiritual leader of the Orthodox church? | show 🗑
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| show | Justinian I
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| Which explorer died alongside Mallory trying to climb Everest in 1924? | show 🗑
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| Occurring on June 17, 1775, which battle of the US War of Independence saw the Britsih take the Charlestown peninsula, despite sustaining such heavy losses that it was almost a Pyrrhic victory? | show 🗑
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| show | Battles of Lexington and Concord
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| Which political party ruled Spain under Franco? | show 🗑
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| show | Herbert Kitchener
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| The drinking of what was briefly banned in the USA in 1775? | show 🗑
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| show | Anthony McAuliffe (at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge)
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| show | Wolfe (before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham)
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| What nationality is Mary Donaldson, who married into the Danish royal family in 2004? | show 🗑
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| Margaret Beaufort was the mother of which English monarch? | show 🗑
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| show | 1789
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| At which 1801 battle did Nelson famously ignore Hyde Parker's command to retire? | show 🗑
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| Now a name used for mainly religious buildings, what name was given to Roman public halls? | show 🗑
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| show | Finnbogadottir
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| show | Eva Peron
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| Which US general commanded the troops that won the Battle of the Bulge? | show 🗑
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| The Continuous Service Act of 1853 ended which notorious practice? | show 🗑
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| show | War of The Austrian Succession
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| On the death of Theodosius the Great in 395, the Roman Empire was divided (and never reformed) into western and eastern portions. Which son of Theodosius was made Emperor in the East? | show 🗑
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| show | Honorius
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| Who was Pope of the Catholic Church from October 366 to his death in 384, and commissioned the Vulgate Bible? | show 🗑
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| show | Siricius
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| show | Ravenna
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| show | Battle of Taginae
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| What name was given, collectively to the writings that Emperor Justinian I anathematized in 544, in hope of encouraging the Orthodox to accept the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon, and bring religious harmony to the Byzantine Empire? | show 🗑
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| In 1434, the first university in Sicily was founded in this city, the seventh largest metropolitan area in Italy. Which city, on Sicily's east coast? | show 🗑
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| show | Valparaiso
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| Pope from 29 March 537 to his death in 555 and considered the first pope of the Byzantine Papacy, who lost a battle for authority with Justinian over The Three Chapters controversy? | show 🗑
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| Who was Edward II's queen, and her lover, who helped overthrow Edward? | show 🗑
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| show | Uncle
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| What was Harold MacMillan's actual first given name? | show 🗑
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| show | Molotov and Von Ribbentrop
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| Among other achievements, who was Britain's first female mayor and magistrate? | show 🗑
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| The River Bug forms part of which two national borders? | show 🗑
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| show | Operation Bagration
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| What did the Ancient Greeks call a city-state? | show 🗑
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| show | Chalcis
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| Which veteran was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005? | show 🗑
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| Who had a 1950 UK number 1 with "Don't let The Stars Get In Your Eyes"? | show 🗑
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| show | Craig Douglas
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| show | The Woolpackers
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| What was the papal name of the Pope between 2005 and 2013? | show 🗑
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| Blackfriars come from which monastic order? | show 🗑
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| show | Christadelphians
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| Which composer married Alma Schindler in 1902? | show 🗑
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| show | Ithaca
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| show | Ash
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| Verdi's Requiem (Messa de Requiem) of 1874 was in honour of which novelist? | show 🗑
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| Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet has the head of which animal? | show 🗑
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| Which musical instrument is also called a 'woodpile'? | show 🗑
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| show | War Cry
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| show | Cosi Fan Tutte
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| show | Enoch
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| Which 1960s chef was nicknamed 'The Galloping Gourmet'? | show 🗑
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| show | Hero
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| How many fluid ounces are there in one pint? | show 🗑
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| show | Herons
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| show | International Civil Aviation Organisation
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| What destroyed the Queen Elizabeth ship ('QE1')? | show 🗑
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| show | Peter Cosgrove
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| On which island is Hong Kong International Airport? | show 🗑
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| To which vegetable family does the chervil belong? | show 🗑
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| What does PAL stand for in TV systems? | show 🗑
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| show | Pozzolans
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| show | Russia
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| What is the name of Bilbo Baggins home in The Hobbit? | show 🗑
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| show | Troposphere
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| Which atmospheric layer lies directly above the thermosphere? | show 🗑
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| Whose 1563 painting "Wedding at Cana" is the largest painting in the Louvre? | show 🗑
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| show | White heifer
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| show | Song of the Lord
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| The burning of Edinburgh in 1544 was the first major act in which historical process, named because England wanted a marriage alliance with Mary, Queen of Scots? | show 🗑
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| Edward VI's first protector, Edward Seymour, was Duke of where? | show 🗑
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| show | 1942
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| Which historical radicals were led by John Liburne? | show 🗑
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| Which architect designed Apsley House (Number One, London)? | show 🗑
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| show | Darius III
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| show | Flodden
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| Which motorway connects London and Oxford? | show 🗑
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| show | Azimuth
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| show | Herod the Great
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| Which architect of Djoser in Ancient Egypt was later deified? | show 🗑
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| Which butterfly (Aglais Urticae) has blue dots on its lead edge? | show 🗑
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| The FDA approved which type of medical therapy for the first time in 1990? | show 🗑
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| How is the bulb of a crocus more correctly known? | show 🗑
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| show | Spaniels
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| In which year was Concorde's first scheduled flight? | show 🗑
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| In which organ of the body is the Canal of Schlemm? | show 🗑
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| Bramblings belong to which bird family? | show 🗑
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| What colour dye is obtained from madder plant roots? | show 🗑
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| show | Marsupials
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| show | Chin
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| show | Copper and nickel
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||||
| Which aid to farming is Lucien B Smith commonly called the inventor of, as he established a patent in 1874? | show 🗑
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| show | 10,000
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|
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| Which Hungarian-American pioneered game theory by publishing a paper on it in 1928? | show 🗑
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| What is May's birthstone? | show 🗑
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| show | Eton Rifles
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| show | Catfish
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|
||||
| Cooper's Hill, the traditional British home of cheese rolling, is in which county? | show 🗑
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||||
| The Kambala races held annually in Karnataka, India, involve racing which animals? | show 🗑
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| show | Capoeira
🗑
|
||||
| Which combination sport or game originated as a concept in Enki Bilal'sgraphic novel "Froid Equateur"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Elo Rating System (from Arpad Elo)
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|
||||
| Which very exclusive sport was first played at the Tiger Tops Resort in Chitwan, Nepal, although animal rights protests have recently led to the cancellation of many games? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to the lowland region in southern Nepal and north-western India that lies south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Siwalik Hills, and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain? | show 🗑
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| show | Philippines
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| show | Nadi
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| Now Constitution Hill, in which Johannesburg prison were both Gandhi and Nelson Mandela once held? | show 🗑
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||||
| The South African football team the Kaizer Chiefs were founded by Kaizer Motaung, a former player for which all-black wearing team, with which they have their strongest rivalry? | show 🗑
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| show | Sharpeville Massacre
🗑
|
||||
| Which city is named after the leader of the Boers (1798-1853)who was instrumental in the creation of the South African Republic? | show 🗑
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| Which treaty was signed at Melrose House, Pretoria, on 31st May 1902? | show 🗑
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| Which South African politician (1862-1919) was the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state? | show 🗑
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| With two species, the common and giant, which antelopes belong to the genus Taurotragus? | show 🗑
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| Which species is Oryx Gazella, native to the arid regions of Southern Africa, such as the Kalahari Desert, and depicted on the flag of Namibia? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which complex in Pretoria form the official seat of the South African government and also house the offices of the president of South Africa? | show 🗑
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| show | Remarkables
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| show | Ruth
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| show | Swords
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|
||||
| Name the year; "Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies, first visit to Britain by a Pope in 450 years and a mother claims a dingo killed her baby"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Tungsten
🗑
|
||||
| Published in 2017, twenty years after her debut "The God of Small Things", what was Arundhati Roy's second novel? | show 🗑
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||||
| What name is given to a South Indian transgender person, assigned male at birth? They were recognised as a third gender by the Supreme Court in 2014. | show 🗑
|
||||
| Directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as a 16th century conquistador, which 1972 film concludes with hundreds of monkeys on a raft? | show 🗑
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||||
| In the 2012 Ang Lee adaptation of "The Life of Pi", which Indian actor played Pi Patel for most of the film, his first major role aged 19? | show 🗑
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||||
| On which racecourse is the Kentucky Derby run? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The Avengers
🗑
|
||||
| Which Korean director's most widely known feature is "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring" (2003), though he won the Un Certain Regard prize at 2011 Cannes Film Festival for "Arirang"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Anna May Wong
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|
||||
| show | Malèna
🗑
|
||||
| Named in honour of a pioneering writer and artist, which awards, first held in 1988 after the discontinuation of the Kirby Awards, celebrate creative achievement in US comic books? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In the 2008 film remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, Klaatu was played by Keanu Reeves. Who played him in the original 1951 film? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Cigarette cards
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|
||||
| show | Francis Scott Key
🗑
|
||||
| In which British comic, published from 1956-93 would you have seen "Pop, Dick and Harry”, “The Numbskulls” and “Little Mo" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Carnation
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|
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| show | Rod Steiger
🗑
|
||||
| Which man, the son of the 'father of Afghanistan', Ahmad Shah Durrani, moved his country's capital to Kabul in 1776? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which city was the capital of Afghanistan prior to Kabul? | show 🗑
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| show | Akbar
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|
||||
| show | Dost Mohammed Khan
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|
||||
| Captain Sir Alexander Burnes, FRS (16 May 1805 – 2 November 1841), a British explorer and diplomat associated with The Great Game, was nicknamed after which city that he made contact with and explored? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which battle of 27 July 1880 was one of the principal battles of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, where the Afghans defeated a much smaller force consisting of two brigades of British and Indian troops under Brigadier-General George Burrows? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The Iron Emir
🗑
|
||||
| Which area of Afghanistan, with a name meaning 'land of illumination' was formerly known as Kafiristan ("land of the infidels") until the inhabitants were converted from a form of ancient Hinduism to Islam in 1895? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War was famous for reportedly being the only member of an army of 4,500 men & 12,000 accompanying civilians, to reach safety at the end of the retreat from Kabul? | show 🗑
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||||
| The Roll Call (purchased by Queen Victoria), The Defence of Rorke's Drift, and Scotland Forever!, showing the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo are among the better known works of which female history painter (1846-1933)? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Manitoba
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|
||||
| The Japanese steam liner, Komagatu Maru, that sailed from Hong Kong in 1914, carrying 376 passengers from the Punjab, was not allowed to land in which country and was forced to return to India? | show 🗑
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||||
| The only known nesting site of whooping cranes, which national park, located in northeastern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories, is the largest national park in Canada at 44,807 km²? | show 🗑
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||||
| What was the name of the Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, the highest number for a British Empire pilot? | show 🗑
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||||
| What was the name of the French munitions ship that exploded off the coast of Nova Scotia in December 1917, after colliding with the Belgian relief ship Imo, destroying most of the city of Halifax? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump
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|
||||
| show | Red Serge
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|
||||
| show | Just For Laughs
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|
||||
| show | Newfoundland
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|
||||
| Sharing its name with a Greek goddess, which body of water separates the Queen Charlotte Islands from the mainland of British Columbia in Canada? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which of the Five Pillars of Islam requires a Muslim to give alms? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Childbirth
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|
||||
| show | Speaking
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|
||||
| show | Espoo
🗑
|
||||
| Bratislava is the largest city in Slovakia. What is the second largest? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tirana is the largest city in Albania. What is the second largest? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Red Crested Crane
🗑
|
||||
| show | American Bison (Buffalo)
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|
||||
| For his role in which 1995 film did Nicholas Cage win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Ben Sanderson? | show 🗑
|
||||
| For his role in which 1985 film did William Hurt win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Luis Molina? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Duddingston Loch
🗑
|
||||
| In painting, a remarque is the addition of a small personalized drawing or symbol near the signature of the artist and was first used by Whistler. What was Whistler’s remarque? | show 🗑
|
||||
| The crushing foot used by Terry Gilliam in the animated opening of ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’ was taken from a detail of the 1545 painting ‘Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time’ by which Florentine artist? | show 🗑
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||||
| Théodore Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa’ depicts the survivors of the French frigate Medusa, after it had been wrecked on the Bank of Arguin off the coast of which African country in 1816? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which animal muses over the sleeping body of a woman below a moonlit night sky in Henri Rousseau’s ‘The Sleeping Gypsy’? | show 🗑
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||||
| When released in 2004, which horror film, directed by Edgar Wright, described itself as a 'rom zom com' - standing for 'romantic zombie comedy'? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which short story, originally published in 1839, was adapted into two horror films of 1928? One of the films was directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber and starred Webber, Herbert Stern and Hildegarde Watson | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Woodhouse
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|
||||
| show | Orca
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|
||||
| show | Seed of Chucky
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|
||||
| In 1093 the Norman knight Robert Fitzhamon built a castle that laid the foundations for the growth of which city in the UK? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which Welsh artist (1876-1939) who worked in France for most of her career, painted mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters such as Young Woman in a Spotted Blue Dress, Girl Holding a Cat, and The Convalescent? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which influential Welsh landscape painter (1714-82), who worked in Britain and Italy, and was a founder member of the Royal Academy painted "The Garden of the Villa Madama, Rome" , and shares his name with a Scottish actor? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Alfred Sisley
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|
||||
| Which architect designed the Senedd in Cardiff? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Marduk
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|
||||
| show | Syria
🗑
|
||||
| Pharaohs of the Old Kingdom in Egypt were associated with which God, the son of Osiris, prior to being superseded by the idea of the pharaoh as son of Ra after the 5th Dynasty? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Saqqara
🗑
|
||||
| Which society, established in 1870 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, is an appendant body to Freemasonry, and is noted for its Orientalist, Middle Eastern themes? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Philippe Petit
🗑
|
||||
| What is the more common name of "scrivener's palsy"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Strontium
🗑
|
||||
| show | Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium (NPK system)
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|
||||
| What was the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways, in 1960? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which coal-fired steam locomotive built in Darlington, England was completed in 2008 and was the first built in the UK since 1960? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Yellow/orange or mustard yellow
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|
||||
| What was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only jet aircraft to achieve combat operations during the Second World War? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Avro Lancasters
🗑
|
||||
| Called the "father of rocket propulsion", which American (1882-1945) is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fuelled rocket? | show 🗑
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||||
| The name of which nation is often used as a prefix to "canoe" to distinguish an open canoe from a kayak? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Beating
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|
||||
| At which city, from which the Greeks took their word for 'book' is the alphabet in use today believed to have been developed? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | George Bernard Shaw
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|
||||
| show | Joan Collins
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|
||||
| show | Middlesbrough
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|
||||
| In 1803, Edward Despard was the last man in England to receive which judicial sentence? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics' books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison, and Galileo's Daughter, about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Balaclava
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|
||||
| show | Rudyard Kipling
🗑
|
||||
| Who played snooty antiques dealer Simon Peel opposite Windsor Davies in "Never the Twain"? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which actress wrote the 1966 novel "Valley of the Dolls"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What name was given to Harold Wilson's 1976 Resignation Honours list allegedly due to the colour of the paper the list was written on? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Neptune
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|
||||
| show | Curse of Tippecanoe
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|
||||
| "The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice" (1730) and "Venice: A Regatta on the Grand Canal" (1735, in the National Gallery) were both painted by which artist? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In art, which Italian word means an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations, and may include staffage (figures)? | show 🗑
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||||
| Who did Tobias Smollett call "the Great Cham of literature"? | show 🗑
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||||
| What was the original title, using a different number, of Joseph Heller's novel "Catch-22"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Cadiz
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|
||||
| show | Two thirds
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|
||||
| In the UK parliament, which two 'stages' come between a Bill's second and third readings? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Philadelphia
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|
||||
| show | Franklin
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|
||||
| At 26, who was the youngest person to sign the United States Constitution in 1787? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In power 909-1171 what was the fourth and last of the great Islamic caliphates, after the Rashidun, Ummayad and Abbasids? | show 🗑
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| show | 1920-33
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|
||||
| show | Hampshire
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|
||||
| show | Cup-and-ball
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|
||||
| Which author was, for one night only, engaged to Harris Bigg-Wether until she changed her mind? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Pietro Metastasio
🗑
|
||||
| show | Spoken dialogue
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|
||||
| In classical music, what name is given to a type of solo vocal piece, usually occurring in an opera or oratorio, falling somewhere between recitative and aria in style? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Secco
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|
||||
| In which type of German opera is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias which were often strophic, or folk-like? | show 🗑
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||||
| Particularly associated with Wagner which German term translated as "total work of art"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Carl Maria von Weber
🗑
|
||||
| One of the last, most powerful and significant Sardinian judges, as well as the island's most renowned heroine, which woman (1347-1404) is considered to be Sardinia's "Joan of Arc"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Jean-Baptiste Lully
🗑
|
||||
| show | Pelléas et Mélisande
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|
||||
| show | Diane Towler
🗑
|
||||
| Which football team from England are nicknamed 'The Grecians'? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Des Lynam supports which football team - he declined an offer to join the board of directors in the 1990s? | show 🗑
|
||||
| How many dice are used in the game of Yahtzee? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In which Olympic event is it necessary for competitors to wear a top hat? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Indra
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|
||||
| show | Kshatriya
🗑
|
||||
| One of the four varnas of the Hindu social order in Nepal and India, which order had traditional roles in agriculture and cattle-rearing but over time they came to be landowners, traders and money-lenders? | show 🗑
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||||
| What is the name of the 'unclean' of four the social categories in Hindu mythology - ranked as the lowest of the four varnas? | show 🗑
|
||||
| The second most populous and the third largest city after Bangalore and Hubli-Dharwad in the state of Karnataka, India, which city was the capital of an eponymous state for nearly six centuries, from 1399 until 1956? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Puppet Theatre
🗑
|
||||
| Which art is the Japanese 'Ukiyo-e'? | show 🗑
|
||||
| The Hermann Melville novel "Redburn" was part-based on Melville's experiences in which city, which he visited in 1839? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Shilling
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|
||||
| In British pre-decimal currency, how many pennies were in a guinea? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | 1040-57
🗑
|
||||
| show | John Hancock
🗑
|
||||
| Who was first elected as an MP, for Belfast West, in 1983? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | John Adams
🗑
|
||||
| Which treaty settled the 1812 Anglo-US War? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Kyat
🗑
|
||||
| Which 20th century leader survived the most assassination attempts, 31 by some sources? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Marquis of Granby
🗑
|
||||
| Which Transport Minister first introduced a driving test in the UK? | show 🗑
|
||||
| On which island was King Charles II of Great Britain first proclaimed king? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Aalborg
🗑
|
||||
| Exclusively fed by precipitation and from mineral salts introduced from the air, what type of bogs are Germany's Wildseemoor and Denmark's Lille Vildmose? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International, and has a museum in Silkeborg dedicated to him, that displays his major work 'Stalingrad'? | show 🗑
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| show | Gorm The Old
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| show | Silkeborg
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| Caroline of Ansbach was married to which British monarch? | show 🗑
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| Which American physician and surgeon co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson, more commonly known as Bill W? | show 🗑
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| What name was given to the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968? | show 🗑
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| Who said "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"? | show 🗑
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| show | William Cullen Bryant
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| Which two words complete the quote from the Book of Common Prayer: "Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred, and strayed from thy ways like...."? | show 🗑
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| Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until he was forced to abdicate in 1215 who was the only German king of the Welf dynasty? He incurred the wrath of Pope Innocent III and was excommunicated in 1210. | show 🗑
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| In which palace was Charles I of England born in 1600? | show 🗑
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| show | 1920
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| show | Antigonus
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| show | Pelagianism (Pelagius)
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| Which bishop of Milan (c. 340 – 4 April 397), a staunch opponent of Arianism and one of the four doctors of the church, supposedly refused Theodosius I communion for his part in a massacre at Thessalonica? | show 🗑
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| show | Vandals
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| show | Toulouse (Kingdom of Toulouse)
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| At which 378CE battle was the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens killed? | show 🗑
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| show | Nicomedia
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| show | Athanasius
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| Named after a Berber Christian bishop which group who argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministrations to be effective, and for the prayers and sacraments they conduct to be valid, caused a 4th century schism in the N African church? | show 🗑
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| Which Roman Emperor disbanded the Praetorian Guard in 313CE? | show 🗑
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| show | Galerius
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| How many white stars appear on the flag of the Comoros? | show 🗑
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| Which archipelago is claimed by the Comoros but is administered by France, and is the poorest Département in France - it rejected joining the Comoros in a 1974 referendum? | show 🗑
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| show | Yellow
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| How many yellow stars in total feature on the flag of China? | show 🗑
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| The flag of Burkina Faso consists of a yellow star against two horizontally-divided halves of what two colours? | show 🗑
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| Appearing on the national flag, which country's crest consists of a crescent facing upwards, joined with a parasol, with hands on the sides? | show 🗑
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| show | Haiti
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| What colour is the star at the centre of the flag of Ghana? | show 🗑
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| show | Gabon
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| The colours of which nation's flag were taken from the coat of arms of the Duchy of Brabant? | show 🗑
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| In Islam, which cave is held to be the location where Muslims believe Muhammad received his first revelations and where Quran was first revealed? | show 🗑
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| On which mountain near Mecca in Saudi Arabia's Hejaz region is the cave where the Prophet Muhammad received his first revelations? | show 🗑
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| show | Eve
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| show | (the Life and Death of) Colonel Blimp
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| show | Polyphemus
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| The Geiger-Marsden experiment shot alpha particles at a very thin sheet of which metal? | show 🗑
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| show | Scintillation
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| show | Yathrib
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| show | Ansar
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| How many surahs comprise the Quran? | show 🗑
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| Both of Canada’s official national sports are contact team sports played with a long-handled stick. Ice hockey is the winter game, but what is Canada’s summer national sport? | show 🗑
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| show | Capoeira
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| Tejo, also known as Turmeque [tour-MEK-ay], a game involving throwing a metal disc at a target in a clay-filled box, is the national sport of which country? | show 🗑
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| show | Moore's Law
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| Arabic for "the emigrants" what name is given to the first converts to Islam and the Islamic Prophet Muhammad's advisors and relatives? | show 🗑
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| Living 579-656CE, what was the name of the companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who was the third of the Rashidun, or "Rightly Guided Caliphs"? | show 🗑
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| show | LED
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| What is the full name of the painting commonly known as Whistler’s Mother? | show 🗑
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| show | The Scream of Nature or Der Schrei der Natur
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| Frans Banninck Cocq, a 17th-century burgemeester (mayor) of Amsterdam, is named in the full title of the painting commonly known as what? | show 🗑
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| On which British motorway did a Boeing 737 crash on 8th January 1989, killing 47 of those on board? | show 🗑
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| For what do the letters NAAFI stand in the canteens of military personnel in the UK? | show 🗑
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| show | Falabella
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| show | Fred T Jane
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| In which year did the Ryder Cup change from UK and Ireland vs USA and was first played instead as Europe v USA? | show 🗑
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| show | Cassius
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| show | M'Naghten Rule
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| show | Chittagong
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| show | Thirteen
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| show | Kyle MacLachlan
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| show | Mariana Islands
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| show | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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| show | Vermont
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| The Kush were an ancient African civilisation located in which modern day country? | show 🗑
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| show | John the Baptist
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| What rank did Idi Amin achieve in the British Army? | show 🗑
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| Which American golfer is best remembered for having won 11 consecutive tournaments during 1945? | show 🗑
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| Sharing its name with an Israeli internet news portal, what name is given to the sound effect used in American radio, film, and television to imitate the indistinct murmur of a crowd in the background? | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Huxley
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| show | Bolivia
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| show | Giles Gilbert Scott
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| show | Belgrade
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| A statue of which Roman general, who was governor of Britain in the first Century, stands in the city of Bath? | show 🗑
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| show | Plutus
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| Which American President, whose administration ran from 1857-1861, is the only President to have been a bachelor? | show 🗑
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| In Homer's 'Odyssey', what was the name of Odysseus' faithful dog who awaited his return from Ithaca? | show 🗑
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| show | Barrington Irving
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| show | Samoa
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| What name is given to the shanty towns of Brazil, the first of which was created in in November 1897 when 20,000 veteran soldiers were brought to Rio de Janeiro and left with no place to live? | show 🗑
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| show | Viscount Chelsea (Earl Cadogan)
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| Considered one of the key sites in world prehistory and home to some of the earliest handcrafted gold treasure, in which country could you find the Varna Necropolis? | show 🗑
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| show | Bali Ha'i
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| show | Symphony of A Thousand
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| The Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea are an autonomous region of which country? | show 🗑
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| show | Albert Schweitzer
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| show | Parmenides
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| show | Newark
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| show | Andorra
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| show | Josef Albers
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| Which city is the administrative centre of the French region of Lorraine? | show 🗑
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| In Norse mythology, who was the messenger to the gods? | show 🗑
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| Who was the Conservative peer who died in 1986, who was best known for his homosexual relationship with the gangster Ronnie Kray? | show 🗑
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| What was the pen-name of the 16th Century alchemist and physician Phillip von Hohenheim? | show 🗑
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| Amblyopia is the medical name for which visual disorder? | show 🗑
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| show | Egbert
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| Established in 1864, and holding - as of 2017 - a joint-record 16 title wins, which Australian Football team has the moniker "the Blues"? | show 🗑
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| show | Hong Kong
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| Which European city's airport is located in the suburb of Surčin? | show 🗑
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| What was pen-name used by the Russian novelist Aleksei Peshkov? | show 🗑
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| Before it achieved independence in 1828 which country was known as Banda Oriental? | show 🗑
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| To the nearest billion years, how old is the universe? | show 🗑
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| show | Laniakea
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| After Andromeda and the Milky Way, which galaxy, Messier 33, is the third largest galaxy in the Local Group? | show 🗑
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| Which musical features the track "When I Marry Mister Snow"? | show 🗑
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||||
| Who wrote the opera "Salome", famous for its "Dance of the Seven Veils"? | show 🗑
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| show | Ivanhoe
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| show | Arnold Schoenberg
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| Anglican bishops traditionally meet at which conference every ten years? | show 🗑
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| show | Rock of Ages
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| show | Tom and Jerry
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| In which 1895 battle in the Cuban War of Independence was national hero José Martí killed? | show 🗑
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| show | Shirt
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| show | Abakuá
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| show | Paviland
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| What is the highest rank of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire ? | show 🗑
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| Who voiced Queen Elsa in Walt Disney Animation Studios' hit 2013 computer-animated musical film Frozen and thus sung "Let It Go"? | show 🗑
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| show | Socrates
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| show | Berlin
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| "Solitaire" was a 1973 UK hit for which crooner? | show 🗑
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| "The Vampire Lestat" is a sequel to which Anne Rice novel? | show 🗑
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| Which English scientist received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904 for his successful isolation of the inert atmospheric gas argon? | show 🗑
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| Major General Vang Pao was arrested in the United States in June 2007 for plotting to overthrow the government of which country? | show 🗑
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| Previously known as Mesembria, what is the name of the ancient city and UNESCO World Heritage Site on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast? | show 🗑
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| Winning 5 NBA Championships (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2014), what is the name of San Antonio's professional basketball team? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which English county's flag features three golden sheaves of wheat and a golden blade on a blue background? | show 🗑
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| One of several men called a "father of geology", who created the first nationwide geological map of the UK? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to an area in South East England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs that crosses the counties of Sussex, Hampshire, Kent and Surrey? | show 🗑
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| William Conybeare (1787-1857) is probably best known for naming some of the first examples of what to be found? | show 🗑
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| show | Carrara
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|
||||
| Which French naturalist (1769-1832) is sometimes referred to as the "father of paleontology"? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which seminal 1955 film took its title from a book by Dr Robert M. Lindner, subtitled "The Hypnoanalysis Of A Criminal Psychopath"? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which is the largest of the Channel Islands off the coast of California? | show 🗑
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| show | Chicago Seven
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|
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| show | Wim Wenders
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| show | Billy Graham
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|
||||
| Properly called Medicago sativa, and also called Lucerne, which perennial flowering plant is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as well as a green manure and cover crop? | show 🗑
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| show | Lidice
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| show | Operation Anthropoid
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|
||||
| show | Barbara Stanwyck
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| show | Rock Hudson
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| show | Ohio
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|
||||
| Who played preacher Harry Powell in "The Night Of The Hunter"? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which classical Japanese dance-drama has a name made up of the kanji for "sing, dance, skill"? | show 🗑
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| Which American actress of the screen and stage, called "The First Lady of American Cinema" starred in films as diverse as 1915's silent "Birth Of A Nation", 1955's "The Night of the Hunter", and her final film, 1987's "The Whales of August"? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which actress starred in "The Man With The Golden Arm" and "Pal Joey" but is perhaps best known today for her performance as Madeline Elster/Judy Barton in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo (1958)? | show 🗑
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| show | Rita Hayworth
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|
||||
| Harry Cohn was the infamous co-founder, president, and production director of which movie-making company? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Frank Sinatra
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|
||||
| "Yes, I Can" was the 1965 autobiography of which entertainer? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The African Queen
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|
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| Which alkane has the chemical formula C3H8? | show 🗑
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||||
| How are the white blood cells called neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils and mast cells collectively known, in reference to a characteristic of their cell cytoplasm? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Lysosomes
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| show | Liver
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||||
| show | Opsonin
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|
||||
| Sharing it with a famous poet's surname, what was actor James Dean's middle name? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Mae West
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|
||||
| Which US playwright, an Oscar winner, killed himself by gassing himself in his Mercedes on June 10th 1973, after several critical failures? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which actor, who won a Best Director Oscar for "Reds" in 1981, made his film debut in 1961's "Splendor In The Grass"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Picnic
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|
||||
| Which fashion designer made his mark with his "Highland Rape" collection and low-cut "bumster" pants? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Aimee Mullins
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|
||||
| show | Emile Berliner
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|
||||
| show | 1910s
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|
||||
| show | Hedi Slimane
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|
||||
| Which Japanese contemporary artist coined the term "superflat", which describes both the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of post-war Japanese culture and society, as well as his own artistic style? | show 🗑
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||||
| Who was the first elected female head of state in Africa, when she became President of Liberia in 2006? | show 🗑
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| What nationality is the fashion designer Marc Jacobs? | show 🗑
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||||
| What was the pseudonym of the English novelist, Cecil William Mercer, whose novels and short stories, some humorous (the Berry books), some thrillers (the Chandos books), were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period? | show 🗑
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| show | (Jakob Michael Reinhold) Lenz
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|
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| 75 cars, 5 caravans, 6 buildings and several boats were washed into the sea, and approximately 100 homes and businesses were destroyed costing £15million, in a flash flood in 2004 that hit which Cornish village? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Ernest Saunders
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|
||||
| show | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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|
||||
| Which 23 year old Foreign Office clerk passed secret documents to the Guardian newspaper in 1984, and later spent four months in jail as a result? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Qing (accept Manchu)
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|
||||
| Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by which British author in the early 20th century? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Norman Willis
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|
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| Who was the Pope during the First World War, and until 1922? | show 🗑
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||||
| At which 1471 battle was Richard Neville, styled the "Kingmaker", killed? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Invergordon Mutiny
🗑
|
||||
| Which was the first formerly communist state to adopt the Euro as its currency? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which man was born in Arpinum in 106BC, and decapitated as an enemy of the state in 43BC? | show 🗑
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| Which former UK secretary of state claimed to have once have had her apartment broken into by Ted Bundy? | show 🗑
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| show | Jack Dash
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|
||||
| In 1941, which city was the target of the Nazi 'Operation Typhoon'? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which man was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Niagara Falls, New York, after drowning on July 24th 1883 - he had previously done a far more successful swim? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Richard II
🗑
|
||||
| Which PM of the UK founded the Royal United Services Institute, now the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), a defence think tank, in 1831? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which US President had a son called Kermit? | show 🗑
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||||
| On whose death in 1820, of 'dropsy', did the government of Argentina proclaim that the next new town to be built must be named after him? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Rod Laver
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|
||||
| Who achieved a calendar Grand Slam in women's tennis in 1988? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Maureen Connolly
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|
||||
| show | Margaret Court
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|
||||
| show | Roger Federer
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|
||||
| show | Martina Navratilova
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|
||||
| What nationality was the tennis player Roy Emerson, who won 12 Grand Slam events, all in the 1960s? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Laureus World Sports Awards
🗑
|
||||
| show | Yelena Isinbayeva
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|
||||
| show | Three feet
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|
||||
| show | Iran
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|
||||
| Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency, which acronym is generally used for the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | BND
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|
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| show | Martin Bormann
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|
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| show | Yvette Pierpaoli
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|
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| Formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, which Palestinian nationalist political party was founded by Yasser Arafat and closely linked to him until his death in 2004? | show 🗑
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| How is the body of water also called Kinneret, Lake of Gennesaret, or Lake Tiberias better known? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which 1956 film, a "thinly disguised à clef account of the Primo Carnera boxing scandal" was the last one to feature Humphrey Bogart? | show 🗑
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| show | Lauren Bacall
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|
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| Which actor (1899-1957) got his characteristic facial scar after he was hit in the face by a handcuffed prisoner while serving in the Navy? | show 🗑
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| show | Dabke
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| show | Absinthe, champagne
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|
||||
| What is the unit of measurement for amount of substance in the International System of Units (SI)? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Haven ports
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|
||||
| King George Island (called May 25 island by Argentina, or Vaterloo by Russia) and Livingston Island (called Smolensk by Russia) are the largest two islands in which group? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Ecliptic
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|
||||
| The star Polaris lies in which constellation? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Cassiopeia
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|
||||
| What is defined as the total sum of all the ecosystems on Earth, or the zone of life on Earth, a closed system (apart from solar and cosmic radiation and heat from the interior of the Earth), and largely self-regulating? | show 🗑
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||||
| What name is given to a unicellular organism that lacks a membrane-bound nucleus, mitochondria, or any other membrane-bound organelle? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Electron
🗑
|
||||
| show | Mikhail Lomonosov
🗑
|
||||
| show | Equilibrium
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|
||||
| show | Genus
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|
||||
| show | Nucleotides
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|
||||
| What is the highest taxonomic rank of organisms, divided into three different ones? | show 🗑
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||||
| In chemistry, what does the letter 'L' stand for? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which French chemist (1754-1826) was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Regulus
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|
||||
| show | Subsistence Economy
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|
||||
| show | Arthur Koestler
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|
||||
| show | The Warden (by Trollope)
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|
||||
| show | Betsy Trotwood
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|
||||
| show | Blunderstone Rookery
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|
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| In the Dickens novel, which two women does David Copperfield marry? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Dead Souls (by Gogol)
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|
||||
| show | Bullfighting
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|
||||
| Who wrote "The Day of the Jackal" in 1971? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | John Wyndham
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|
||||
| Which character is the one who dies in Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Peter Paul Rubens
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|
||||
| show | Gustave Courbet
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|
||||
| show | Honoré Daumier
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|
||||
| show | Leonardo da Vinci
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|
||||
| show | Masaccio
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|
||||
| Which Italian painter and monk (c. 1406 – 8 October 1469) had a scandalous sexual relationship with Lucrezia Buti, producing a son - despite his ordination? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries, of which Hokusai is the most famous practitioner, translates from Japanese as "pictures of the floating world"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Aldous Huxley
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|
||||
| show | Evelyn Waugh
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|
||||
| Which US author wrote "The Dharma Bums"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Jacques-Louis David
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|
||||
| show | The Brothers Grimm
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|
||||
| show | Mudbloods
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|
||||
| show | Tom Clancy
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|
||||
| Who wrote the book upon which the film "The Exorcist" was based? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | William Morris
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|
||||
| Who wrote the 1976 book upon which the film "The Boys from Brazil" was based? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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|
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| Give a year in the life of influential architect Andrea Palladio. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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|
||||
| show | Reginald Bosanquet
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|
||||
| show | Karel Reisz
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|
||||
| show | Vanessa Redgrave
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|
||||
| show | Simone Signoret
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|
||||
| In which 1968 Lindsay Anderson film is there a depiction of a savage insurrection at a fictitious boys' boarding school? | show 🗑
|
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| His first success was 1965's Loves of a Blonde (Czech: Lásky jedné plavovlásky). Whose 1967 film The Fireman's Ball was seen as a biting satire on Eastern European Communism; he later directed The People vs Larry Flynt? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Stephen Spender
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|
||||
| What was the name of the German military intelligence service for the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1945? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Jerry Wald
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|
||||
| show | The Glass Menagerie
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|
||||
| show | New York
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|
||||
| show | (New York) Sun
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|
||||
| show | Jules Chéret
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||||
| show | Mutoscope
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| show | Jeremiad
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| show | Berakhah
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| Pascha Nostrum is a hymn used by Christians mainly at what time of year? | show 🗑
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| show | Aunt Jemima
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| Which term for a fraudulent product derives from a patent medicine marketed by the American Clark Stanley in the later 19th century? | show 🗑
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| Abbreviated PPACA, what is the correct name of the Act that was popularly nicknamed "Obamacare"? | show 🗑
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| show | Gunsmoke
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| Who wrote the feminist classic "The Feminine Mystique"? | show 🗑
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| The Zenith Electronics "Flash-Matic" of 1955, designed by Eugene Polley, was the first commercially available example of which device? | show 🗑
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| Charles Van Doren, portrayed on film by Ralph Fiennes in 1994's "Quiz Show", became infamous for taking part in a fix in which 1950s quiz show on US TV? | show 🗑
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| Where did the Colts American Football NFL franchise play before their controversial 1984 move to Indianapolis? | show 🗑
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| show | Steve Allen
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| show | Johnny Carson
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| show | Plymouth
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| Which cigarette was advertised to women in the 1920s with the slogan "Mild as May"? | show 🗑
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| show | The Ed Sullivan Show
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| show | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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| show | Alessandro Scarlatti
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| The I ♥ N Y ad campaign and logo was the brainchild of which advertising company, active from 1966-1998, and named for three of its founders? | show 🗑
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| In which 1971-79 US TV sitcom did Carroll O'Connor first star as Archie Bunker? | show 🗑
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| Which American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm ran from 1965 to 1971? | show 🗑
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| show | Gil Scott-Heron
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| Which American half-hour children's television series that was created and hosted by namesake Fred Rogers ran from 2963 to 2001? | show 🗑
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| show | Brad's Drink
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| Which philosopher and cultural theorist coined the term "The Great Refusal" in the 1950s to describe "the protest against unnecessary repression"? | show 🗑
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| Who popularised the phrase "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out", although he states that Marshall McLuhan actually coined the phrase over lunch with him? | show 🗑
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| show | November (22nd 1963)
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| Which number President (eg 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) was John F Kennedy? | show 🗑
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| show | Warren Commission
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| show | Lee Harvey Oswald
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| show | Alan Seeger
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| What was the name of the street in Dallas on which President Kennedy's motorcade was travelling when he was fatally shot in 1963? | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Huxley
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| For which forgery did Konrad Kujau become infamous? | show 🗑
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| show | Aurignacian
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| show | Hamburg
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| In which country is the prehistoric, Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe? | show 🗑
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| Which ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta was the third language, besides Greek and hieroglyphs, found on the Rosetta Stone? | show 🗑
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| Washukanni was the capital of which Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatolia from c. 1500–1300 BC that came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Amorite Babylon? | show 🗑
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| Who was the king of Assyria from 705 BCE to 681 BCE, principally remembered for his military campaigns against Babylon and Judah, and for his building programs – most notably at the Akkadian capital of Nineveh? | show 🗑
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| Against whom did Sparta fight three wars, the First from 743-724BCE, the Second from 685 to 668 BCE and the Third in 464BCE? | show 🗑
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| A populist who ruled three times between 561 and 527BCE, which ruler of Athens instituted the Panathenaic Festival, historically assigned the date of 566 B.C., and thus the consequent first attempt at producing a definitive version of the Homeric epics? | show 🗑
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| Which Athenian general assumed command of the Greek allied navy at the battles of Artemisium and Salamis in 480 BC? | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Plataea
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| show | Battle of Aegospotami
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| show | Brennus
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| What name is given to any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, plant or fungus? | show 🗑
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| The Beautiful Feast of Opet was an Ancient Egyptian festival celebrated annually in which city? | show 🗑
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| Which man, born in Hostinné, Austria-Hungary in January 1890 became best known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice"? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to the diagrams that show the bonding between atoms of a molecule and the lone pairs of electrons that may exist in the molecule, named after the man who devised them in 1916? | show 🗑
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| Which chamber of the heart receives deoxygenated blood from the body? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to a method of reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying strong evidence for the truth of the conclusion? Another way of saying it is you can generalise from a large number of specific observations. | show 🗑
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| In biology, which is the only taxonomic subdivision larger than a kingdom - there are only three (Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya)? | show 🗑
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| All worker ants are which gender? | show 🗑
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| Which type of acid takes its name from the Latin for 'ant'? | show 🗑
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| A trace element in the human body, which chemical element has the symbol Mo? | show 🗑
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| show | Ovid
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| show | Bruins
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| show | Three
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| show | Mordovia
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| Which element has the atomic number 10? | show 🗑
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| show | 92
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| Which term, in chemistry, refers to a measure of an element's combining power with other atoms when it forms chemical compounds or molecules? | show 🗑
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| The advance-fee scam, or 'Nigerian' scam, usually done via e-mail, also has a name using three numerical digits - which digits? | show 🗑
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| Which dynasty of Egyptian history was the first Hyksos dynasty? | show 🗑
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| Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian sculptor renowned for his collaboration with which more famous artist (1386-1466)? | show 🗑
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| show | Ay
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| Which pharaoh was the founder of the Eighteenth dynasty, whose reign laid the foundations for the New Kingdom? | show 🗑
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| The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is headquartered in which city? | show 🗑
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| show | Dalton
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| show | Candide
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| show | Judo
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| show | Alexander Kerensky
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| show | Simonides
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| Which submarine sank in the Barents Sea in 2000, killing all 118 personnel on board? | show 🗑
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| In American Football, what nickname is used for a fifth defensive back? | show 🗑
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| show | Gene Pitney
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| show | Semi-breve
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| show | Sheep/ewe
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| show | Aubergines
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| show | Tony & Maria
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| Who were the first ever act to have a Grammy rescinded? | show 🗑
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| What is the real name of Shakin' Stevens? | show 🗑
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| show | Unit Four Plus Two
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| show | The Honeycombs
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| show | Fortnum and Mason
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| What is the largest city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick? | show 🗑
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| show | Anticosti Island
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| The province of New Brunswick in Canada borders which US state? | show 🗑
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| show | Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
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| Existing from 1604 to 1713, what name was given to a colony of New France in northeastern North America that included parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine to the Kennebec River? | show 🗑
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| show | Tom Thomson
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| Which Canadian artist and writer (1871-1945), inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific, painted "The Indian Church" and "The Crazy Stair (The Crooked Staircase)"? | show 🗑
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| Which Dutch-Canadian painter (1815-72) was most famous for his paintings of Canadian landscapes and Canadian life outdoors, particularly his winter scenes? | show 🗑
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| The world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, which Canadian multi-national privately owned company was established in 1957 in Florenceville, New Brunswick? | show 🗑
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| Which cat species's range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America, is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere? | show 🗑
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| show | De jure
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| On 1st January 2018, who became the first Estonian footballer to score in the Premier League? | show 🗑
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| show | Turkey
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| show | Attica
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| show | Solon
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| show | Cleobulus of Lindos
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| Which Spartan politician from the 6th century BC, to whom the militarization of Spartan society was attributed was one of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece? | show 🗑
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| Which 1963-66 BBC1 British television sitcom starred Richard Briers and Prunella Scales? | show 🗑
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| show | Jane Horrocks
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| show | Robert Hardy
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| The agriculture show The Great Yorkshire Show has been held in which town since 1952? | show 🗑
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| show | Surrey
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| In which US state is Yale University? | show 🗑
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| Which island country has Bridgetown as its capital? | show 🗑
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| Kotoka International Airport serves which capital city? | show 🗑
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| In which English county is the coastal town of Minehead? | show 🗑
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| In which Irish county is the Blarney Stone located? | show 🗑
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| The Burren is an area in which Irish county? | show 🗑
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| Which Lancashire town has a coat of arms featuring three bees? | show 🗑
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| show | Oklahoma
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| show | Dennis Nilsen
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| show | $20
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| show | $5
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| Which building features on the reverse of a US $10 note? | show 🗑
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| show | Alexander Hamilton
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| show | Ulysses S Grant
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| What were UK drinkers forbidden from doing from July 1916 until June 1919? | show 🗑
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| Which military body was formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War, and was disbanded in 1660 after the Restoration? | show 🗑
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| show | Elizabeth I
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| show | Poland
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| In which decade was the Open University founded? | show 🗑
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| Which institution specialising in evening higher education was established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute? | show 🗑
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| What is the flag carrier airline of Spain? | show 🗑
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| What name did Anglo-Saxons give to a coalition of Norse warriors, primarily originating from Denmark but with some from Sweden and Norway, who came together under a unified command to invade the 4 Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England in AD 865? | show 🗑
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| Which stately home in the English county of Leicestershire is the seat of the Dukes of Rutland? | show 🗑
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| Gus Poyet became the manager of which French football team, nicknamed Les Girondins, in January 2018? | show 🗑
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| show | Richard III
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| show | Euboea
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| show | Danville
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| show | Inner Mongolia
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| show | Bern
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| The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals was signed on 1st November 1983 in which city, for which it is sometimes named? | show 🗑
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| show | Oslo, Paris
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| show | Dog
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| Which 1740 epistolatory novel is subtitled "Virtue Rewarded"? | show 🗑
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| show | Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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| Which is the heaviest chemical element to be represented by a single letter in its symbol? | show 🗑
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| show | Ticks and mites
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| Mountain tick fever or American tick fever, a viral infection (Coltivirus) transmitted from the bite of an infected wood tick Dermacentor andersoni is sometimes named after which US state? | show 🗑
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| show | Galls
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| show | Suffolk
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| Who wrote "The Feast of the Goat" in 2000? | show 🗑
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| show | Thyroid
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| show | Comoros
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| Which country's internet domain code resembles the symbol for 'milligram'? | show 🗑
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| Which 1831 novel by Amantine Aurore Dupin was the first work she published under her pseudonym George Sand? | show 🗑
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| show | Ulverston
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| Used in the ZIP file format, which class of data compression algorithms allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data? | show 🗑
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| show | Roxana
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| Which poem by Hesiod describes the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods? | show 🗑
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