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| Ralph Vaerst coined what name in 1971 for the Santa Clara valley near San Francisco? | show 🗑
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| show | Kylie Minogue
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| In which year did Nelson Mandela die? | show 🗑
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| Whose 2011 debut album was "Who You Are"? | show 🗑
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| What is the forename of the villainous albino monk in Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code"? | show 🗑
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| show | Sagittarius
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| Rasalhague is the brightest star in which constellation, called the "serpent bearer"? | show 🗑
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| show | Snakes
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| show | Rembrandt von Rijn
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| show | Rachel Hunter
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| Polotsk is widely believed to be the oldest settlement in, and the first capital of, which country? | show 🗑
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| Made into a later Borodin opera which 12th century East Slav epic poem tells of a failed raid of the titular character (d. 1202) against the Polovtsians of the Don River region? | show 🗑
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| In modern Lithuania, revered as a national hero, which ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania commanded his troops to victory at the Battle of Grunwald? | show 🗑
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| show | Livonian War
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| III Rzeczpospolita or the Third Rzeczpospolita refers to the current 'third' republic of which country? | show 🗑
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| After which town were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (963-73) and based on the Flemish law named - they regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages? | show 🗑
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| show | Great Northern War
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| Which six-letter word is another name for a European Bison? | show 🗑
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| show | Oblast
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| show | Stanislaus I (Stanisław Leszczyński)
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| Which is the only US state flag that is different on each side? | show 🗑
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| Who is the principle heroine of 'Pride & Prejudice'? | show 🗑
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| show | Niger
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| What is Africa's second longest river (after the Nile)? | show 🗑
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| show | Hawks
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| show | York Minster
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| show | Hyderabad
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| Which element burns in air of its own accord and emits a green glow? | show 🗑
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| show | Rugby
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| show | Hampton Court Palace
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| Which capital city was founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada in August 1538? | show 🗑
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| show | Tula
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| 119 people were killed on 6th November 1985 in which country's Palace of Justice when it was stormed for 28 hours by members of the revolutionary M-19 movement? | show 🗑
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| show | Anarchism
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| Whose work, "A Letter to a Hindu", caused the young Mohandas Gandhi to write to him to ask for advice and for permission to reprint the Letter in Gandhi's own South African newspaper, Indian Opinion, in 1909? | show 🗑
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| Whose Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50, written in Rome between December 1881 and late January 1882, became its composer's own funeral elegy? | show 🗑
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| CIVETS are six favoured emerging markets countries - name any three of them. | show 🗑
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| The OAS, a continental organization founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states, is fully known by what name? | show 🗑
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| show | Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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| show | Colombia
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| show | Jane Krakowski
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| show | Bogota
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| Which weekly news magazine published in Hamburg, Germany fell for the Hitler Diaries in 1983? | show 🗑
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| show | Kate Mara
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| show | Chromium
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| show | Salt
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| In which country do the South American football team "The Strongest" play? | show 🗑
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| Olimpia and Club Cerro Porteño are historically the two most successful clubs in which country? | show 🗑
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| Club Universitario de Deportes and Alianza are historically the two most successful teams in which country? | show 🗑
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| show | Club América
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| show | Teutonic Knights
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| show | The Primary Chronicle
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| The Varangians was an Eastern name for which people, more familiarly known by a different name in the West? | show 🗑
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| The Battle of Covadonga (718 or 722) is traditionally held to signify the beginning of which period of Spanish history? | show 🗑
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| show | Ecstasy
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| show | Kublai Khan
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| Which Chinese dynasty lasted from 618-907AD? | show 🗑
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| Lanzhou is the capital of which Chinese province? | show 🗑
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| Which Han Emperor (156-87BC) reigned for 54 years and saw massive territorial expansion of his Empire? | show 🗑
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| Which Chinese dynasty was the first to unify a significant part of the country, in 221BC? | show 🗑
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| show | Dome of the Rock
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| show | Rousseau
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| What was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate? | show 🗑
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| show | Damascus
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| Islamic law initially allowed how many wives (and unlimited concubines!)? | show 🗑
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| Which Battle of 732, won by the Franks, turned Islam back from its furthest expansion in Europe, and is seen by most historians as a critical point in Europe's history? | show 🗑
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| Muslim armies unsuccessfully attacked which city in both 623-8 and 717-8? | show 🗑
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| The ancient Silk Road city of Merv lies near which city with a population of 123,000, named after a Bible character? | show 🗑
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| show | Saracen
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| show | Ummah
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| show | Erg
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| In which years was 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Christmas Number 1 in the UK? | show 🗑
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| show | Clafoutis
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| show | Remoulade
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| show | Avocado
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| show | Timbale
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| Jordan, Valencia and Barbary are varieties of which kind of nut? | show 🗑
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| show | Duck
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| show | Arthur Sullivan
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| In which English town or city is the Timothy Taylor brewery? | show 🗑
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| show | Frederik
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| show | 1801
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| show | Vinegar Joe
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| Which monarch's forces won the Battle of the Boyne? | show 🗑
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| show | James II
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| Where in 1928 did the President of a country become the King? | show 🗑
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| What was the near-ubiquitous nickname of the corrupt official William M. Tweed - he was brought down, in part, by Thomas Nast cartoons? | show 🗑
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| show | Hadrian
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| Who succeeded Woodrow Wilson as US President in 1921? | show 🗑
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| Who was Henry VIII's sixth and final wife? | show 🗑
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| show | George IV
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| show | Irish Potato Famine
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| show | Eaton Hall
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| Chancellor from 18 August 1892 to 21 June 1895, who preceded Campbell-Bannerman as leader of the Liberal Party? | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Carlyle
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| show | Hannah Cullwick
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| show | Cumbria
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| What is the historic county town of Westmorland? | show 🗑
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| show | James Boswell
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| Once widely used to make moulded candles before more convenient wax varieties became available, what name is given to a rendered form of beef or mutton fat that can be stored without refridgeration? | show 🗑
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| Which Pope allegedly met Attila the Hun in 452 and persuaded him to turn back from his invasion of Italy? | show 🗑
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| show | Vandals
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| Which straits separate Sicily from the Mainland? | show 🗑
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| Theodoric, ruler of Italy (493–526), and who founded a kingdom based in Ravenna, was the king of which peoples? | show 🗑
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| Which soldier who in 476 became the first King of Italy (476–493), and whose reign is commonly seen as marking the end of the Western Roman Empire, was killed by Theodoric the Great in Ravenna? | show 🗑
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| Alboin (530s – June 28, 572) was king of which people from about 560 until 572 - he first led them to settle in Italy in 569CE? | show 🗑
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| show | Gregory I (the Great)
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| Which city was the capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards from 572 to 774? | show 🗑
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| show | Ticino
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| show | Maurice
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| show | The Mikado
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| Which group had UK 1967 hits with "Night of Fear" and "I Can Hear The Grass Grow"? | show 🗑
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| show | Smoked/brined salmon
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| show | Wisdom
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| In which book of the Bible is it said that "charity shall cover a multitude of sins"? | show 🗑
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| What one-word name is given to a terrine or meat jelly made with flesh from the head of a calf or pig, or less commonly a sheep or cow, and often set in aspic? | show 🗑
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| show | Rod Stewart
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| Which actor had a 1968 UK number 4 hit with "MacArthur Park"? | show 🗑
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| show | Gloriana
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| show | Richard Feynman
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| show | Computer mouse
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| show | Patriot
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| What sort of creature is a 'chafer'? | show 🗑
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| show | Articulated Dump Truck
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| show | (Hawker Siddeley) Nimrod
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| show | Boeing
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| Which aeronautical engineer set up the company that built the Halifax bomber? | show 🗑
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| Where are Epsilon Peak, the Copernicus Corner and The Straight Wall? | show 🗑
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| What sort of creature is a wisent? | show 🗑
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| What was invented, as a replacement for ivory in billiard balls, by John Wesley Hyatt in 1870? | show 🗑
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| Bernard Ebbers was the CEO of which US communications company that committed accounting fraud from 1999 to 2003 - the largest accounting fraud in American history until the exposure of Bernard Madoff's $64 billion Ponzi scheme in 2008? | show 🗑
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| show | Coronation Scot
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| show | Die Another Day
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| Who became the 11th Doctor Who, in the role from 2009 to 2013? | show 🗑
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| In the film "The Third Man" what substance was Harry Lime racketeering? | show 🗑
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| show | Amy Pond
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| show | Brian Blessed
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| In which film is Paul Newman initially part of a chain gang as "Lucas Jackson"? | show 🗑
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| Who played the character of Doris Luke in the soap "Crossroads"? | show 🗑
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| show | Perry Mason
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| Which 1967-75 TV series show starred Raymond Burr as a consultant for the San Francisco police who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation? | show 🗑
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| show | Zac Efron
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| show | Diablo Cody (Juno)
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| Who played the character Dr Niles Crane in "Frasier"? | show 🗑
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| Which film, released in 1982, had the working titles "Growing Up" and "A Boy's Life"? | show 🗑
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| Which actor's directorial debut was the 2004 film "Ladies in Lavender"? | show 🗑
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| show | Jack Palance
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| In 1965, Jimmy Tarbuck replaced which fellow Liverpudlian comedian as host of Sunday Night at the London Palladium in 1965? | show 🗑
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| show | Tommy Trinder
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| Who is the usual doctor in The Simpsons, known for his inappropriate laughing? | show 🗑
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| Which Hollywood star had a brief career as a boxer in 1919 under the name "Packy East"? | show 🗑
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| show | Darracq
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| To what did Virgin Radio rebrand itself in 2008? | show 🗑
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| show | Ronnie Wood
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| show | Terry Bollea
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| show | MGM
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| show | Miss World
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| What is the fictional setting of TV comedy "Dad's Army"? | show 🗑
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| show | Spencer Tracy
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| show | LA Law
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| show | Eight
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| show | Stanley Ketchel
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| show | 1986
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| show | Longchamp
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| Which boxer was, as of 2017, the second-longest reigning heavyweight champion of all time, and has the second-most successful title defences total of any heavyweight boxer with 23 (including his initial reign as WBO champion), behind Joe Louis (25)? | show 🗑
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| What name is shared between the oldest known Scandinavian dynasty, and a type of sailboat and sailboat competition class? | show 🗑
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| Which rugby union team play at Sixways Stadium? | show 🗑
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| Which classic cycling race is nicknamed the Queen of the Classics or l'Enfer du Nord ("The Hell of the North") and is one of the last cobbled races? | show 🗑
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| Which cycling classic, one of the five 'Monuments of Cycling' is nicknamed the Autumn Classic or the Race of the Falling Leaves, as it is held in October or late September? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to is the distinctive jersey worn by the reigning world champion in a cycling discipline, since 1927? | show 🗑
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| Which was the first film with an all-black cast to win a Best Picture Academy Award? | show 🗑
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| Which movie was the first to win a Cesar Award and Best Picture Oscar? | show 🗑
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| show | Gaelic Football
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| show | High Commissioner
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| show | Whatsapp
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| show | Waveney
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| Which literary character's home was Thornfield Hall? | show 🗑
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| For his role in which film did JK Simmons win the Oscar for best Supporting actor in 2015? | show 🗑
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| In imperial measure, how many gills are there in a gallon? | show 🗑
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| Name the year: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated, Nick Leeson makes spectacular losses for Barings Bank and America is shocked by the Oklahoma bombing? | show 🗑
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| What is Canadian province New Brunsick's capital? | show 🗑
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| show | John Flamsteed (first Astronomer Royal)
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| In which US Great Lake is Isle Royale National Park? | show 🗑
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| show | Hamilton
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| Which American business and finance company founded on May 11, 2000 by Jeffrey Sprecher, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia is abbreviated ICE? | show 🗑
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| What is Guyana's currency? | show 🗑
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| What does a dotted line on an OS Map represent? | show 🗑
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| show | Belfast, (London)Derry, Armagh, Lisburn, Newry
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| In which county is Flatford Mill, that appears in the Haywain by Constable? | show 🗑
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| Which European nation's name derives from a group whose name meant "people of the fields"? | show 🗑
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| Which small, sacred temple near the Parthenon on the Acropolis was named after a legendary King of Athens and housed a wooden statue of Athena? | show 🗑
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| Which ancient war lasted from 434 to 401BC? | show 🗑
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| How is ancient Corcyra now known? | show 🗑
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| show | Philip II of Macedon
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| Which battle of August 2nd 338BC saw Philip II of Macedon decisively defeat the Athenians and Thebans? | show 🗑
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| Which May 334BC battle was the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great and the Persians? | show 🗑
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| Which November 333BC battle, fought in modern-day Turkey, between Macedons and Persians under Darius III, was the second of three major battles between Alexander the Great and the Persians? | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Gaugamela
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| How is the River Oxus now known? | show 🗑
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| In which city did Euclid, the famed 'father of geometry', live and work? | show 🗑
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| The word 'Punic', as in the wars, derives from the Latin for what? | show 🗑
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| show | Sicily
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| show | Zama
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| In what year was Julius Caesar assassinated? | show 🗑
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| The ancient city of Cyrene is now in which modern-day country? | show 🗑
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| show | Epirus
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| Which animal was used as the standard of a Roman Legion? | show 🗑
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| Which large island was annexed by the Romans in 58BC? | show 🗑
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| show | Great-nephew
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| show | 14AD
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| show | Livia Drusilla
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| In which century did King Tutankhamun reign? | show 🗑
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| show | 49 years (587BC - 538BC)
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| show | Seleucids
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| show | Zealotry
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| show | Kitos War
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| Fought 132-136AD, and named for its leader, what was the third of the three revolts by the Jews of Judeae against Roman rule? | show 🗑
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| What offence was Jesus put on trial for that led to the crucifixion? | show 🗑
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| Believed by some to be Jesus' brother, who was the first Bishop of Jerusalem? | show 🗑
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| St Paul was originally known by what name? | show 🗑
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| In which Canadian province is the city of Alberta? | show 🗑
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| From which 1928 Yeats poem is the phrase "This is no country for old men taken"? | show 🗑
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| show | 1946
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| show | Norman Podhoretz
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| Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963) are famous works by which French film director (1922-2014)? | show 🗑
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| Now a national park, at which location in western Kigoma Region, Tanzania did primatologist Jane Goodall study chimpanzees, published in her book "In The Shadow Of Man"? | show 🗑
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| Which Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most notable as being a film star of the silent era (1885-1957) played Rommel in "Five Graves To Cairo" and Max von Mayerling in "Sunset Boulevard"? | show 🗑
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| Who directed what is generally considered the first 'talkie', "The Jazz Singer"? | show 🗑
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| How is the Russian phrase "glavnoye upravleniye lagerei" more commonly abbreviated? | show 🗑
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| show | Agostino Tassi
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| show | Gianlorenzo Bernini
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| show | 120
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| show | Lewisham
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| show | Holofernes
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| Who first wrote "The female of the species is more deadly than the male" in a 1911 poem? | show 🗑
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| In which country does most of the action of Shakespeare's Othello take place? | show 🗑
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| show | Cuba
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| show | Brazil
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| What is the forename of Mr Darcy in the novel "Pride and Prejudice"? | show 🗑
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| Which 1529 treaty was the Eastern equivalent of the Treaty of Torsedillas defined the areas of Spanish and Portuguese influence in Asia to resolve the "Moluccas issue"? | show 🗑
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| show | Mark Wallinger
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| show | Princess Caraboo
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| Which art exhibition that took place in the London Docklands in July 1988, mainly organised by Damien Hirst, was significant in the subsequent development of the Young British Artists? | show 🗑
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| Name either of the two British scientists who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2001 for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle. | show 🗑
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| Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925-2013) won was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of what? | show 🗑
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| Which German photographer (b.1955) known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view, created 2 of the most expensive photos ever sold - Rhein II and Chicago Board of Trade III? | show 🗑
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| Barrow Point is the northernmost point of which country? | show 🗑
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| show | Bleak House
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| show | Enid Blyton
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| show | Lillehammer
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| What was the Anglicised name of Stanisława Walasiewicz, the intersex 1932 winner of the women's Olympics Games? | show 🗑
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| show | Fourteen
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| At which Olympics did Olga Korbut make her debut? | show 🗑
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| show | John Wood, the Younger
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| show | Robert Adam
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| show | Photography
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| show | Sean Lock
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| Give a year in the life of Geoffrey Chaucer. | show 🗑
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| show | A Tale of Two Cities
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| What name (forename and surname) is shared by the founder of the University of Aberdeen, and the major-general under whose command the disastrous retreat of the British from Kabul occurred in 1842? | show 🗑
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| show | Afghanistan
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| show | Jahangir
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| Named after a place in Turkmenistan, which incident of 1885 was a diplomatic crisis between Britain and Russia caused by the Russian Empire's expansion southeast toward Afghanistan and India? | show 🗑
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| Named after a British diplomat and civil servant of the British Raj (1850-1924) what name is commonly given to the Afghan-Pakistani border? | show 🗑
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| show | Abdur Rahman
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| show | Ashraf Ghani
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| show | Loya jirga
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| The Third Anglo-Afghan War lasted for just 94 days in which year? | show 🗑
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| show | Jimmy Carter
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| What was the name of the Belarussian cipher clerk who defected to Canada in September 1945, with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West exposing Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the technique of planting sleeper agents? | show 🗑
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| show | Fred Rose
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| Which is the only Canadian province to have both French and English as official languages? | show 🗑
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| show | Lester B Pearson
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| Which small, uninhabited barren knoll located in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait that separates Ellesmere Island from northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with the Lincoln Sea is claimed by both Canada and Denmark? | show 🗑
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| Named after a Canadian Prime Minister, what was the name of Constable Benton Fraser’s canine sidekick in the award-winning Canadian television police drama Due South? | show 🗑
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| Canada’s Four Corners point, located near Kasba Lake, is a point at which four political subdivisions meet, namely the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and which two provinces? | show 🗑
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| What was the name of the Minister of Quebec who was kidnapped and murdered by members of the terrorist group The Front de Libération du Québec during the October Crisis of 1970? | show 🗑
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| Cape Columbia is the northernmost point of land of Canada and is located on which island? | show 🗑
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| show | Terry Fox
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| Born in 1641, Titus was the only child who survived into adulthood of which painter, who used his son as a model in several of his paintings? | show 🗑
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| Which artistic term, deriving from the Italian for ‘scratched’, refers, in painting, to the practice of laying one colour over another and scratching the paint so that the colour underneath shows through? | show 🗑
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| If the first is ‘The Heir’ and the second is ‘The Levée’, then what is the third? | show 🗑
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| In which very famous painting of 1882 can a pair of green feet, belonging to a trapeze artist, be seen in the extreme top left hand corner of the canvas? | show 🗑
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| In which famous painting of 1656 can the Italian dwarf Nicolas Pertusato be seen waking a sleeping mastiff with his foot whilst the achondroplastic German, Maribarbola, looks on? | show 🗑
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| The snow-topped Mount Chimborazo is the highest peak in Ecuador. Its summit is also often said to be the spot on the surface farthest from the center of the Earth. Its appears, most famously, in art in a popular 1859 painting by which American artist? | show 🗑
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| show | Vince Vaughn
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| show | The Green Man
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| show | Count Orlok
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| show | Pazazu
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| Butetown and Tiger Bay are part of which British city? | show 🗑
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| show | Augustus John
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| Which Welsh painter and poet (1895-1974) was considered by T. S. Eliot to be of major importance, with his The Anathemata considered by W. H. Auden to be the best long poem written in English of the 20th century? | show 🗑
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| Completed 1794, which now mostly filled-in canal connected Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff? | show 🗑
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| show | Bute family
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| The last known contemporary example of which writing system dates to 394AD in Philae? | show 🗑
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| show | Second Intermediate Period
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| show | Amenemhat I, also Amenemhet I
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| show | Kingdom of Kush
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| Lough Erne is located in which county of Northern Ireland? | show 🗑
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| Which US President established the name of the White House by having "White House–Washington" engraved on the stationery? | show 🗑
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| What is the adjective pertaining to Madagascar? | show 🗑
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| show | Derbyshire
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| How many sovereign nations does the Equator pass through? | show 🗑
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| show | Eight
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| The Purús, Madeira and Japurá or Caquetá are all geographically, the three largest what? | show 🗑
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| show | Rathlin Island
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| show | Shetlands
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| show | Portugal
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| show | Bridgewater Canal
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| Give a year in the life of poet Robert Burns. | show 🗑
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| show | Richard Rodgers, Marvin Hamlisch
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| According to the Hebrew Bible, who was the first king of the Kingdom of Israel and Judah? | show 🗑
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| Who was the father of the Biblical King Solomon? | show 🗑
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| In the JM Barrie play "Peter Pan" who is Captain Hook's first mate, or bo'sun? | show 🗑
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| Which author created the character Jack Ryan? | show 🗑
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| show | HE Bates
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| show | Gargantua
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| show | Tom Lehrer
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| show | Jules
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| show | Anthony Burgess
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| Which two countries now possess most of the territory of the ancient Kingdom of Edom? | show 🗑
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| In the US version of House of Cards, he was called Frank Underwood - what was he called in the original British TV series? | show 🗑
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| Who was the only person to have been a member of the US Marines to have defected to the Soviet Union? | show 🗑
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| What is the common name of the snake with the scientific name Eunectes murinus, which is also called the Greater Water Boa? | show 🗑
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| show | Ivanhoe
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| Which is the only mainland European country that, as of 2017, does not border an EU country? | show 🗑
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| show | Ellen Wilkinson
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| show | Azure Window
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| Which 19th century British inventor, born in Scarborough in 1773, developed the first glider able to carry a human aloft? | show 🗑
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| Philippe Quinault was the main librettist for which 17th century composer? | show 🗑
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| Les Huguenots is an opera by who that premiered in Paris in 1836? | show 🗑
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| What two-word term is sometimes attached to Italian operas written by Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835) and Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)? | show 🗑
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| show | Spain
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| show | Parakeet
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| show | Ishihara
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| show | Crepuscular
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| show | Wind energy
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| What type of organism (Opuntia ficus-indica) is a 'prickly pear'? | show 🗑
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| show | Wolseley
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| What is the freezing point of water in Kelvin? | show 🗑
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| Which car manufacturer made the Magnette model from 1953 to 1969? | show 🗑
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| The Maddalena archipelago lies off the north coast of which island? | show 🗑
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| show | Jaguar
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| Where are the peroneus muscles? | show 🗑
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| show | Falling in love/love
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| show | Sloth bear
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| show | Hearing
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| show | Cloves
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| show | Onion
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| show | 1964
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| Who was Pope from 1154 to 1159? | show 🗑
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| show | 1920s (1926)
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| The people of which nation defeated the Italians at the 1896 Battle of Adwa? | show 🗑
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| The West Side Boys were an armed group from which country, that in 2000 captured and held peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission and a patrol of British soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment? | show 🗑
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| Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, was the last British Governor of which country? | show 🗑
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| In which decade was highwayman Dick Turpin hanged? | show 🗑
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| His sculpture The Great Relief (completed 1928) was included in the 2006 Danish Culture Canon as one of Denmark's cultural masterpieces - which artist associated with Skagen at Jutland's tip? | show 🗑
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| Which artists association in Denmark in the 1930s and 1940s focusing on Abstraction and Symbolism was pioneered by Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen together with Ejler Bille and Richard Mortensen? | show 🗑
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| Who played "Hans Christian Andersen" in the 1952 film of that name, singing the song "Wonderful Copenhagen"? | show 🗑
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| show | Bjarne Riis
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| show | FC Midtjylland
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| show | Hygge
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| show | Piero Manzoni
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| The NorthSide Festival and the exhibit of prehistoric Grauballe Man can both be seen in or near which major Danish city? | show 🗑
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| show | Schleswig-Holstein
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| Which city on the River Trave, the leading city of the Hanseatic League, was, because of its extensive Brick Gothic architecture, listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1987? | show 🗑
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| Which German's book "Professor Unrat" was freely adapted into the movie Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel)? He was the brother of a more famous writer. | show 🗑
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| What is the capital of the German state of Saarland? | show 🗑
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| Marbach am Neckar, near Stuttgart, is most famous as the birthplace of who in 1759? | show 🗑
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| show | William Calley
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| show | Luxembourg
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| On November 5th 1872, which prominent Suffragette cast a vote in the US Election along with 14 other women? She was later fined $100. | show 🗑
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| show | Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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| show | Edward III
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| show | John Major
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| Which enslaved African American led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, and was tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and hanged in November as a result? | show 🗑
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| show | William Styron
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| Who was commander-in-chief of victorious Anglo-Dutch forces at the 1706 Battle of Ramillies? | show 🗑
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| In which 2013 video game do players control Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl named Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States? | show 🗑
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| "Men at Arms" and " Officers and Gentlemen" are two parts of Evelyn Waugh's 'Sword of Honour' trilogy - what is the third? | show 🗑
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| show | 35
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| Daniel arap Moi was President of which nation from 1978 to 2002? | show 🗑
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| Who was the first Prime Minister of Singapore, governing for three decades? | show 🗑
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| show | 1910s (1912)
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| show | The Balkan Trilogy
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| Who was the first recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actress? | show 🗑
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| show | Norma Shearer
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| show | Ogonek
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| Coined by the theologian Frederic William Farrar in 1879, what is the linguistic term, sometimes also called ‘speaking in tongues’, for the fluent speech-like but unintelligible utterances that are often used as part of religious practice? | show 🗑
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| show | York
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| Who was the father of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great? | show 🗑
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| show | Chlorine
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| Who was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire? | show 🗑
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| The ancient kingdom of Cilicia lies in the southern part of which modern-day country? | show 🗑
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| Whose (100-165CE) First Apology, his most well known text, passionately defends the morality of Christian life, and provides various ethical & philosophical arguments to convince the Roman emperor, Antoninus, to abandon the persecution of the Christians? | show 🗑
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| show | Tetrarchy
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| show | Maximian
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| Which Roman Emperor, reigning from 270 to 275, defeated the Alemanni, the Goths, Vandals, Juthungi, Sarmatians, and Carpi and was hailed as 'Restorer of the World' by the Senate? | show 🗑
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| show | Decius
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| show | Zimbabwe
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| show | Red
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| What is the predominant colour of the flag of East Timor? | show 🗑
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| show | White
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| A yellow wreath with an upright olive-branch symbol within is to be found on the left of which country's green, red and blue national flag? | show 🗑
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| Which country's flag is green with an orange-coloured African fish eagle in flight over a rectangular block of three vertical stripes, coloured, from left to right: red, black and orange? | show 🗑
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| A double headed eagle appears on the flags of Albania and which other nation? | show 🗑
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| What colour is the star on the flag of Liberia? | show 🗑
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||||
| What colour are the crescent and 14-pointed star on the flag of Malaysia? | show 🗑
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| show | White and red
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| show | Aksum (Aksumite Kingdom)
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| show | Nina Persson
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| show | Gathas
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| show | Mumbai (Bombay)
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|
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| One of the first converts to Zoroastrianism, what is the name of the righteous king who helped propagate and defend the faith, when Zoroaster apparently healed his mortally ill horse? | show 🗑
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| show | Plotinus
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| show | Angra Mainyu
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| Which rationalist school of Islamic theology that flourished in the cities of Basra and Baghdad, both in present-day Iraq, during the 8th–10th centuries, are best known for their denying the status of the Qur'an as uncreated and co-eternal with God? | show 🗑
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| Derived from a word meaning "habit" or "usual practice", what name is given to the verbally transmitted record of the teachings, deeds and sayings, silent permissions (or disapprovals) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad? | show 🗑
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| show | Baghdad
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| show | Sura 53/The Star
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| In 1986, hod-carrier Michael Lush died in a bungee jumping accident rehearsing a stunt for what Saturday night entertainment show hosted by Noel Edmonds? | show 🗑
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| show | Brown Sauce
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| show | Velez Sarsfield
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| show | Asmir Begovic
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| show | Modesto
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| show | Stephen Pears
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| show | American Gangster
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| show | Egon Krenz
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| A Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, which British historian wrote the 1997 work The File, about his experiences under surveillance from the Stasi in Cold War East Berlin while a postgraduate? | show 🗑
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| show | Meyer Lansky
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| show | Santería
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| show | Non-Aligned Movement
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| The aboriginal Taíno and Ciboney peoples were among the original inhabitants of which nation? | show 🗑
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| show | G77
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| show | Organization of American States
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| show | Hernando de Soto
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| Which nation was formerly known as French Saint-Domingue? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Seven Years' War
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| A War beginning in 1868 as part of the Cuban Wars of Independence was known as the how many years war? | show 🗑
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| show | Fred Astaire
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| As of 2017, who is the most nominated performer in any major acting category at the Filmfare Awards, with 41 nominations overall? | show 🗑
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| show | Dorothy Dandridge
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|
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| Which Canadian actress and singer appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s including "Three Smart Girls" (1936),"One Hundred Men and a Girl" (1937), "Mad About Music" (1938) and "That Certain Age" (1938)? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Tyrone Power
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|
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| Which Cuban-born American actor, musician, and television producer is best remembered for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American television series sitcom "I Love Lucy" where he co-with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time? | show 🗑
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| show | Howard Rushmore
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|
||||
| Which male US tennis player was the World No. 1 player for six years from 1920 through 1925.? He won 15 Major singles titles including ten Grand Slam events but his later life was dogged with allegations of sex with underage boys. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Bobby Jones
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|
||||
| Which athlete set 22 official world records at distances between 1500m and 20 kilometres, and won 9 gold and 3 silver medals in 12 events in the Olympic Games, as well as remaining unbeaten in cross country events and the 10,000m throughout his career? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Horse Racing
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| show | Spencer
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|
||||
| The Yörüks are an ethnic group predominantly living in which country? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which US actor played Phillip Morgan in "Rope" and Guy Haynes on "Strangers On A Train"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Loving You
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|
||||
| Who wrote the 1953 book "Battle Cry", later made into a film? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Lizabeth Scott
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| show | Lee J Cobb
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|
||||
| Instituted in 1954, what is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India - Sachin Tendulkar and Nelson Mandela are among recipients? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | You'll Never Get Rich
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|
||||
| By what acronym is The Kurdistan Workers' Party better known - it is considered a terrorist group by Turkey and many countries, including the UK? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Erbil
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| show | Hollywood Ten
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| The second biographical film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, which film starred Joseph Schildkraut as Captain Alfred Dreyfus? | show 🗑
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||||
| Raoul Dufy was a French painter associated with which movement? | show 🗑
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| show | Grant Wood
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| Known for painting courts, clowns and prostitutes, which French expressionist (1871-1958) painted 1937's "The Old King"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | A Hole In The Head
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| show | Larry Parks
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|
||||
| Which city in New Jersey was the birthplace of Frank Sinatra? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which actor first became famous in Italy in the 1970s for a television series called Onda Libera, on RAI2, produced by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted the satirical piece The Hymn of the Body Purged? | show 🗑
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| show | The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen)
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| What was Humphrey Bogart's middle name? | show 🗑
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| show | Angela Scanlon
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|
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| Which actor's first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936)? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to a virus that infects and replicates within a bacterium? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Opportunistic
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| show | Pandoraviruses
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||||
| show | Virophage
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||||
| show | Genome
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|
||||
| Equivalent structures support the gills in fish, which embryonic structures in humans develop into the thymus, the jaws and the larynx, among other structures? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which parasitic disease is caused by an infection with one of eight roundworms, including Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and Brugia timori, and can lead to elephantiasis or river blindness? | show 🗑
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||||
| What one-word term, derived from the Greek for a type of worm, is used to refer to parasitic worms? | show 🗑
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||||
| In humans, what name is given to the condition of localized fluid retention and tissue swelling caused by a compromised lymphatic system? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Macrophage
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| show | Rebel Without A Cause
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|
||||
| Which actress was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on July 20, 1938 to Russian and Ukrainian parents? | show 🗑
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| Which Oscar-winning actress was born Shirley Schrift on August 18, 1920? | show 🗑
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| Which 1950 film's opening scene features the body of Joe Gillis, played by William Holden, floating in a pool? | show 🗑
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| show | Natalie Wood
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|
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| Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of which Natalie Wood drowned, is part of which archipelago? | show 🗑
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| Which British-American actress popular during the Second World War won the Best Actress Oscar for "Mrs Miniver" in 1942? | show 🗑
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| Which American film and stage actress was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Gloria Swanson
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| show | Colleen Townsend
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|
||||
| Which 1953 Christian epic film was based on a book by Lloyd C. Douglas? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | A Man For All Seasons
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| show | Richard Burton
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| show | August Strindberg
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|
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| Which German film director was born Hans Detlef Sierck in 1897? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Sammy Davis Jr.
🗑
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| show | Lewis Morley
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| show | Rene Magritte
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|
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| Which US President famously said "the business of America is business"? | show 🗑
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||||
| Who was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921, until his death in 1923 - his later reputation was marred by scandals that took place under his administration, such as Teapot Dome, and revelations of an affair by Nan Britton? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote the 1922 novel "Babbitt"? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote the Rougon-Macquart series of novels? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Main Street
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|
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| show | 1900
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|
||||
| Qarabağ FK, who debuted in the Champions League in 2017/8, are a football team from which country? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Holland/Netherlands
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||||
| show | Cambridge
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|
||||
| In which US state is the city of Tulsa? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Meuse
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|
||||
| What is the most northerly of the major lakes in England's Lake District? | show 🗑
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| show | M5
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||||
| The M32 Motorway, one of Britain's shortest, links to which major city centre? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Coventry Street
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|
||||
| Which volcano became active in 1995, and has continued to erupt ever since, rendering more than half of the island of Montserrat uninhabitable and destroying the capital city, Plymouth? | show 🗑
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||||
| RAF Lakenheath is located in which county of England? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Marc Jacobs
🗑
|
||||
| What does the acronym MERS stand for in the name of the viral infection that can affect humans? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | B Cells
🗑
|
||||
| show | Ubiquitin
🗑
|
||||
| Usually found attached to the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) which complex molecular machines, found within all living cells, serve as the site of biological protein synthesis? | show 🗑
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||||
| What does the acronym MHC stand for when referring to a critical genetic area for the immune system? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Heinrich von Kleist
🗑
|
||||
| Which director of 1993's "The Firm" nominated for Best Director Oscars for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (1969) and "Tootsie" (1982)? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which 1969 American sports drama film starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman and Camilla Sparv was about skiing, and starred Sylvester Stallone in one brief scene? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | C, Green
🗑
|
||||
| show | Philadelphia
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|
||||
| show | George II
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|
||||
| Wampum, used as gift exchange by Native Americans, primarily consisted of what broad type of item? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Washington DC
🗑
|
||||
| Which man was the last person to be King of the lands that now comprise the USA? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Oliver and Richard Cromwell
🗑
|
||||
| Which professional Australian rules football club, that plays at the Gabba, formed in 1996 from the merger of the Fitzroy Football Club and the Brisbane Bears? | show 🗑
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||||
| What is the name of Atlanta's Major League Baseball franchise? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which horse won the 1981 Grand National - it was especially noted as it had recovered from chronic leg problems, and his jockey Bob Champion, had recovered from cancer? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Kingston, Jamaica
🗑
|
||||
| show | Grahame Greene
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|
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| show | Bonn
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|
||||
| Which British former spy who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union was discovered in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years in prison, though he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 and fled to the USSR? | show 🗑
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||||
| Roberto Arias, a Panamanian international lawyer, diplomat and journalist, married which much more famous woman in 1955? | show 🗑
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| Under the Nazis' Nuremberg Law, all Jews were required to add one of which two names to their own, for identification purposes? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Bundesadler
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|
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| show | Oxfordshire
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| Who was the US Secretary of Defense that served from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, including during the Cuban Missile Crisis? | show 🗑
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| Which osteopath, long considered a scapegoat, killed himself during his trial over the Profumo affair? | show 🗑
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| show | Secretary of State for War
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| show | Tiger Woods
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| Who won the first Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year Award in 2000, later having her award rescinded after admitting to steroid use? | show 🗑
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| In which year was tennis reinstated as a full Olympic Sport, after being dropped in 1924? | show 🗑
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| Which female Russian tennis player won the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney? | show 🗑
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| show | Nine
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| show | San Diego Padres
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| show | San Francisco Giants
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| Which Kenyan runner won the London marathon in 2005, 2007, and 2008, the New York City Marathon in 2003 and 2007 and the Great North Run in 2007 and 2009? | show 🗑
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| Who was the 2016 Olympic marathon gold medallist, and won the London Marathon in both 2015 and 2016? He nearly broke 2 hours for a marathon in a Nike-sponsored event at Monza. | show 🗑
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| show | Fed Cup
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| Which sports team play at Stade Gilbert Brutus? | show 🗑
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| show | Bishop
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| show | (rugby league) Super League Grand Final
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| show | Concrete cancer
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| show | Melbourne Cricket Ground
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| show | Ingrid Kristiansen
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| show | St Andrews Day
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| Which MLB franchise represents Colorado? They won the National League championship in 2007. | show 🗑
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| Which former World Cup alpine ski racer from Norway, born in 1971, is the only alpine skier to win 8 Olympic medals, and has won 5 World Championship gold medals as well as 21 individual World Cup events? | show 🗑
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| show | Rowing (men's eights at the Henley regatta)
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| show | JJ Thomson
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| Other than bacteria, what are the other two domains of life on Earth? | show 🗑
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| The Hawk was a four-cylinder automobile manufactured from 1945 to 1967 by which car company? | show 🗑
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| The bird with the Latin name Alauda arvensis is which bird, found in the UK? | show 🗑
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| show | Uranium
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| Which 1909 experiment disproved the 'plum pudding atomic model'? | show 🗑
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| show | Solute
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| show | Phylum
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| show | Libra
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| What is the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo? | show 🗑
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| Which British chemist came up with a 'law of multiple proportions' in 1803? | show 🗑
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| show | Lumpenproletariat
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| show | Silk
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| What gets stored in a Leyden jar? | show 🗑
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| What is an ecdysiast? | show 🗑
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| show | Mathematics
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| A broderer works in which field? | show 🗑
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| What unit means one trillion (short scale) bytes? | show 🗑
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| The brand 'Old Spice' was introduced in which decade? | show 🗑
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| The order Strigiformes comprises which type of animals? | show 🗑
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| show | Zimbabwe
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| show | Khoisan
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| Which small cat is also called the manul? | show 🗑
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| show | Bishkek
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| Which term, primarily used in the Eastern Orthodox and the Eastern Catholic churches, referred to a superior abbot whom a bishop appointed to supervise several 'ordinary' abbots? | show 🗑
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| Which word was popularized by the novel The Godfather (1969) and its film adaptation, and is Italian for "counsellor"? | show 🗑
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| Which man was born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch in Czechoslovakia in 10 June 1923? | show 🗑
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| What word, originally used for a Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War during the Reconstruction era, and now usually means a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections? | show 🗑
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| Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo, a Soviet serial killer, was nicknamed the 'Butcher of...' which city? | show 🗑
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| Magas is the capital of which Russian republic in the North Caucasus? | show 🗑
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| show | Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
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| Which of Trollope's Barsetshire Chronicles is second chronologically, following on from "The Warden"? | show 🗑
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| Of what disease does Gustav von Aschenbach die in the novella "Death in Venice"? | show 🗑
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| show | They both end mid-sentence
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| In which country is Pearl S Buck's novel "The Good Earth" set? | show 🗑
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| Who is the wife of the Raymond Briggs creation "Fungus the Bogeyman"? | show 🗑
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| show | Mold
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| Edward Murdstone appears in which Charles Dickens novel? | show 🗑
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| show | 100
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| Which English painter and sculptor, knighted in 1878, was bearer of the shortest-lived peerage in history; after only one day his hereditary peerage became extinct upon his death? | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the young boy with whom von Aschenbach is infatuated in Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice"? | show 🗑
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| show | Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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| show | Dennis the Menace
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| show | Clarice Cliff
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| Who painted "The Judgement of Paris" in 1600? | show 🗑
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| Who painted both "The Death of Marat" in 1793, and "The Death of Socrates" in 1787? | show 🗑
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| show | Gustavian (after Gustav III)
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| show | PD James
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| The "Killing Floor" is the first book to feature which recurring Lee Child character? | show 🗑
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| show | JMW Turner
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| show | Rosemary's Baby
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| Proverbially, what type of fruit is said to "taste the sweetest"? | show 🗑
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| Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which medieval castle and subsequent palace served as a residence for the French monarchs from Louis VII to Napoleon III, and is located 34 miles south-east of Paris? | show 🗑
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| show | Swastika
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| show | Knowledge is Power
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| Who wrote "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" (2007), a Pulitzer winner in 2008? | show 🗑
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| The supernatural story "The Monkey's Paw" was first published in 1902 by which author? | show 🗑
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| show | Sara Paretsky
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| Who wrote the plays Gym and Tonic (1996), Perfect Pitch (1998), Happy Families (1991) and Shafted (2015)? | show 🗑
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| Born in 1967, which American photographer is best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots of dozens of volunteers? | show 🗑
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| In which year was Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, reported killed? | show 🗑
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| Amanda, Tom and Laura Wingfield appear in which Tennessee Williams play? | show 🗑
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| Which word originally derived from a new administrative body of the Catholic church (congregation) created in 1622, and originally meant spreading or propagating the Chrstian faith, although it now generally means something different? | show 🗑
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| Which French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor who was a noted Christian anarchist (1912-94) wrote "The Technological Society" and "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes"? | show 🗑
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| show | Lord Herbert Kitchener
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| The fake 'Hitler Diaries' were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks (£2.33 million or $3.7 million) by which West German news magazine? | show 🗑
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| show | John J. Pershing
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| show | Amygdala
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| show | Public Opinion
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| show | Public Relations
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| Who was Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945? | show 🗑
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| Which three-time unsuccessful Presidential candidate delivered the "Cross of Gold speech" which attacked the gold standard and the eastern moneyed interests at the 1896 Democratic National Convention? | show 🗑
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| What was the precursor of the German Nazi Party, that existed from 1919 to 1920? | show 🗑
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| show | Ed Murrow
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| The first Nielsen ratings (for radio) were released in which year? | show 🗑
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| show | George Burns
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| The US comedian Jack Benny was known for playing which musical instrument on his shows? | show 🗑
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| Taken from the diminutive used by Falstaff, what is the standard term used in literary criticism to refer to Shakespeare's portrayal of the young Henry V of England as a prince before his accession to the throne? | show 🗑
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| show | National Broadcasting Company
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| William S Paley (1901-90) built which company from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | Ram Dass
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| Which US actress received Academy Award Best Actress nominations for Some Came Running (1958), The Apartment (1960), Irma la Douce (1963), and The Turning Point (1977), before winning Best Actress for Terms of Endearment (1983)? | show 🗑
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| show | Angie Dickinson
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| Before becoming Vice-President then President, which state did Lyndon B Johnson represent from 1949 to 1961 as its senator? | show 🗑
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| Who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969, losing a 1968 presidential election to Richard Nixon? | show 🗑
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| show | Pola Negri
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| show | The Lost Weekend
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| show | Austria
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| Judy Holliday won a Best Actress Oscar for which film, in a role she had previously played in the 1946 stage production of the same name? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which American businessman (1855-1932) invented a best selling version of the safety razor, using a thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel? | show 🗑
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| Which Canadian-born actor and innovator in slapstick, known at times as the "King of Comedy", made the short "Wrestling Swordfish" which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937? | show 🗑
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| show | Rudolph Valentino
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| show | The Sting
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| show | 31
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|
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| Which American filmmaker (1881-1959), considered a founding father of the cinema of the United States, made "The Squaw Man" (1914), the first feature film shot in Hollywood, as well as The Ten Commandments in both 1923 and 1956? | show 🗑
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| show | Mae West
🗑
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| In which year was the state of Israel set up and recognised by the UN? | show 🗑
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| show | Reconstructionist Judaism
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|
||||
| With which actor did Mae West sing "Love Will Keep Us Together" in the 1978 comedy/musical movie "Sextette"? | show 🗑
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| show | Hasidic Judaism
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| show | Battle of Leuctra
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||||
| show | Battle of Chaeronea
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||||
| Named after a river which battle of May 334 BC was the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which Scottish chemist (1842-1923) is probably best known today for his invention of the vacuum flask, although he also invented cordite with Sir Frederick Abel? | show 🗑
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| show | Patrick Abercrombie (Abercrombie Plan)
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| show | John Adams
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| show | Anders Zorn
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| show | Samnites
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| Which English mathematician and astronomer co-shares credit for discovering Neptune with Urban Leverrier? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which 12th-century English natural philosopher, one of the first to introduce the Arabic numeral system to Europe, translated many important Arabic and Greek scientific works of astrology, astronomy, philosophy and mathematics into Latin from Arabic? | show 🗑
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| show | Phosphorus
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| show | Yekaterinburg
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|
||||
| According to the proverb, from where do fish start rotting? | show 🗑
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| show | Rudyard Kipling
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| show | Crete
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| show | Saronic Gulf
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|
||||
| Quarterback for the New Orleans Saints from 2006 to 2018, who was the NFL's Comeback Player of the Year in 2004, the Offensive Player of the Year in 2008 and 2011, and the MVP of Super Bowl XLIV? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Russia
🗑
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| show | Methane
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|
||||
| The Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata is a sculpture by which artist - it is located in Padua? | show 🗑
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| show | John Young
🗑
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| show | Milky Way
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| show | All Bran
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| The coarse, purified wheat middlings of durum wheat, which cereal is usually used to make gnocchi? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which British condiment is made from a blend of tomatoes, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice and pepper? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Joseph Haydn
🗑
|
||||
| Who wrote Symphony No.35, nicknamed "The Haffner"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | North
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| show | Cosi Fan Tutte
🗑
|
||||
| Which sauce is an emulsion of egg yolk, liquid butter, water and lemon juice (or a white wine or vinegar reduction), whisked together over the low heat of a double boiler? | show 🗑
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| show | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
🗑
|
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| Which Elvis Presley song was the UK Christmas No. 1 in 1962? | show 🗑
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| show | Sherry
🗑
|
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| show | Port wine
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|
||||
| In which town or city was Frederick Delius born? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which musical features the songs "An American Dream" and "Last Night Of The World"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Rabelo
🗑
|
||||
| show | Robert Runcie
🗑
|
||||
| show | Donald Coggan
🗑
|
||||
| Which Indian conductor of Western classical music, born in 1936, conducted the first three concerts of the 'Three Tenors'? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Geb
🗑
|
||||
| Egrets belong to which family of birds? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Cheongsam
🗑
|
||||
| Pierre and Pam Omidyar made their fortunes from which business? | show 🗑
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||||
| From the Greek for 'missile' what name is given to an extremely bright meteor, especially one that explodes in the atmosphere? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Rotterdam
🗑
|
||||
| show | (Old World) Swallowtail
🗑
|
||||
| Which large duck, seen in the UK, has a serrated bill to help it catch prey? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Geothermal energy
🗑
|
||||
| show | Gale
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| show | Four (New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia)
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| According to the Constitution of Canada what is the only bilingual province? | show 🗑
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||||
| Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick, lies on which river? | show 🗑
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||||
| The Bay of Fundy separates which two Canadian provinces? | show 🗑
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||||
| The tamarack is a North American version of what type of tree? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which trophy is awarded annually to the "player judged most valuable to his team" in the National Hockey League (NHL)? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which Canadian former ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time, won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1970 and 1972 with the Boston Bruins and set a record for most points and assists in a single season by a defenceman? | show 🗑
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||||
| On which Canadian island did Franklin D. Roosevelt spend his summers from the age of one until 1939? He fell ill and was diagnosed with polio there in 1921 too. | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which is the largest of the Fundy Islands in the Bay of Fundy? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Wayne Gretzky
🗑
|
||||
| show | Any Questions?
🗑
|
||||
| In the 1963-67 TV show "The Fugitive" what physical disability did the real killer have? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which British game show was first broadcast on BBC1 from 12 June 1967 to 22 October 1984 hosted by Robert Robinson, and in a brief 2005 BBC2 revival presented by Dick and Dom? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Anaconda
🗑
|
||||
| show | Endora
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|
||||
| show | A Hard Day's Night
🗑
|
||||
| Which Beatles film features the track "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Who played Lawrence of Arabia in the 1962 film of that name? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Amity Island
🗑
|
||||
| What was the fictional setting of the 1984-2010 TV series "The Bill"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Carlisle
🗑
|
||||
| show | Whitsuntide
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|
||||
| Labrador is part of which Candian province? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Algonquian
🗑
|
||||
| Occupying around 30 acres what is the largest castle in Wales, and the second largest in Britain? | show 🗑
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||||
| Ireland's four provinces are Ulster, Leinster, Munster and which other? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which country was once called Portuguese West Africa? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Hawaiian Islands
🗑
|
||||
| The FLNC is a militant group that advocates an independent state where? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Quebec
🗑
|
||||
| Which royal dynasty, founded by the Grand Duke of Lithuania, who in 1386 was baptized as Władysław, provided Kings of Poland from 1386–1572? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Saltwater crocodile
🗑
|
||||
| show | Oration on the Dignity of Man
🗑
|
||||
| Which is the longest book of the Old Testament? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which American astronaut, who landed on the Moon in 1972, travelled into space more times than any other astronaut during the 20th Century? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Speke Airport
🗑
|
||||
| show | Super Research University
🗑
|
||||
| Stanford University is located in which US state? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | James Wyatt
🗑
|
||||
| Which stately home in Gloucestershire is the seat of the Dukes of Beaufort? | show 🗑
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||||
| Samuel Richardson took the name of Pamela from which long prose work written towards the end of the 16th century? | show 🗑
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||||
| The subject of Maria Vargas Llosa's "The Feast of the Goat" which Dominican politician, soldier and dictator ruled the Dominican Republic from February 1930 until his assassination in May 1961? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Henry Fielding
🗑
|
||||
| Which foodstuff gives its name to a massacre that was carried out in October 1937 against Haitians living in the Dominican Republic, taken from a test where soldiers would ask people to pronounce the Spanish version of the word? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Yasmina Khadra
🗑
|
||||
| show | Egmont (about Lamoral, Count of Egmont)
🗑
|
||||
| Which ancient region, from which Alexander the Great's wife hailed, lay north of the Hindu Kush mountain range and south of the Amu Darya river? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Hector Berlioz
🗑
|
||||
| Independence Hall features on the reverse of which US bank note? | show 🗑
|
||||
| LZ77 and LZ78 are the two lossless data compression algorithms that formed the basis of several compression schemes, including GIF and the DEFLATE algorithm used in PNG and ZIP, published in 1977/8 papers by which two Israeli computer scientists? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Jacob's Ladder
🗑
|
||||
| show | DJ Snake
🗑
|
||||
| show | Justin Bieber
🗑
|
||||
| Which city of nearly 400,000 people in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, named in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe, was Justin Bieber's birthplace? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Paul Klee
🗑
|
||||
| show | Hector Berlioz
🗑
|
||||
| The 1841 autobiographical travel novel written by George Sand, at the time in a relationship with Frédéric Chopin, is titled "A Winter in..." (Un hiver à...) which island? | show 🗑
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||||
| Cladonia rangiferina, also known as reindeer moss, is a type of which kind of organism, that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which British political party, formed in 1934 from an amalgamation of two other parties, is based at Gordon Lamb House? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Tyrosine
🗑
|
||||
| show | George Berkeley
🗑
|
||||
| show | Leipzig
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|
||||
| show | Baruch Spinoza
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|
||||
| show | Seine, Charente
🗑
|
||||
| show | Charles Dickens
🗑
|
||||
| The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, named after a US philanthropist and art collector, is in which city? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Thought to be the most valuable unrecovered stolen painting ever, with a value estimated at over $200,000,000, who painted "The Concert", stolen in 1990? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which city founded as Simbirsk, on the Volga river, changed its name in 1924? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Crotone
🗑
|
||||
| What is the Swahili word for freedom, also the name of a character in a famous TV series? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Hanover
🗑
|
||||
| show | Caroline of Ansbach
🗑
|
||||
| The fourth-largest asteroid in the Solar System by volume and mass, which asteroid, the largest of the class of dark C-type asteroids with a carbonaceous surface, was named after the Greek goddess of health? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What is the largest metallic M-class asteroid in the solar system, named after a lover of Cupid? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Ceres
🗑
|
||||
| Which battle, referred to as Rinrory by contemporaries, took place on 27 July 1689 during the First Jacobite uprising between a combined Scottish and Irish Jacobite force and those supporting the new government of William III? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Battle of Sherriffmuir
🗑
|
||||
| The successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school, who is both a source on the Presocratic philosophers, and considered "the father of botany"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Anaximenes
🗑
|
||||
| show | Hugo Junkers
🗑
|
||||
| Following her execution, Mary Queen of Scots remained unburied for 6 months before being interred in which cathedral on July 30th, 1587? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which defence secretary of the UK was forced to resign in 2017 because of "Kneegate"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | John
🗑
|
||||
| A score of 6-0, 6-0 in tennis is known as a double what - also the name of a bakery product? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Rachel
🗑
|
||||
| Who won the Turner Prize in 2017, the first person over 50 to do so? | show 🗑
|
||||
| The Kerch Strait Bridge connects the Taman Penisnula of Russia to which disputed territory? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Suits
🗑
|
||||
| show | Kim Kardashian
🗑
|
||||
| show | Lauren Child
🗑
|
||||
| show | Chilean
🗑
|
||||
| Which indoor racquet sport was invented in the late 19th century by merging aspects of real tennis, racquets and lawn tennis? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which venue hosts the US Open tennis tournament? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Where was the US Open tennis tournament held from 1967 to 1977? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What is a toxophilite an aficionado of? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Cycling
🗑
|
||||
| show | Yannick Noah
🗑
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| Which female tennis player won seven Grand Slam singles titles; winning the French Open in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007, the US Open in 2003 and 2007 and the Australian Open in 2004? | show 🗑
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| show | Victoria
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| Arthur Wynne (June 22, 1871 – January 14, 1945) is credited with inventing what? | show 🗑
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| In which year did West Bromwich Albion FC win their only FA Cup to date? | show 🗑
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| Which British national hunt racecourse has a four-furlong run-in on the Steeplechase course, the longest in Britain, and a grandstand in the middle of the track? | show 🗑
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| show | Bristol
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| show | Two
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| Ulrich Salchow - who invented the skating jump named after him - hailed from which country? | show 🗑
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| show | Thierry Henry
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| Which was the first Italian football club to be joined by Liam Brady? | show 🗑
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| Which German-born English golfer played on eight Ryder Cup teams between 1953 and 1969 and had a record of 10 wins, 15 losses and 5 halved matches? | show 🗑
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| show | Len Hutton
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| show | Polo
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| Which British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015 wrote the critically and popularly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism? | show 🗑
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| Hogarth's work "A Rake's Progress" consists of how many etchings in total? | show 🗑
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| Elzie Segar created which cartoon character, who first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip, Thimble Theatre, on January 17, 1929? | show 🗑
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| Which Shakespeare play has the same name as a Beethoven overture? | show 🗑
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| The word 'crestfallen' supposedly derives from which now-illegal activity, banned in England and Wales in 1835 and Scotland in 1895? | show 🗑
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| show | John Locke
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| The dog Montmorency features in which literary work of 1889? | show 🗑
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| show | Goya
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| Which artist's "Equivalent VIII", an arrangement of firebricks became the centre of controversy in 1976 after being featured in an article in The Sunday Times and later being defaced with blue food dye while exhibited at the Tate? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote the lines "oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive"? | show 🗑
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| On which peninsula in Scotland is Glen Ord distillery located? | show 🗑
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| show | OBE
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| Who does Corporal Jones marry in the last ever episode of the TV series "Dad's Army"? | show 🗑
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| In which 1942 Gary Cooper film did Babe Ruth play himself? | show 🗑
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| Which New Testament figure appears in the title of a Lloyd Webber musical? | show 🗑
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| show | Sebastian Flyte
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| How was the Sega Mega Drive known in North America? | show 🗑
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| Who is the first person to have won all three major awards at the Grammys twice? | show 🗑
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| How old was Bobby Moore when he captained England to the World Cup in 1966? | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Rauschenberg
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| Liebesträume (German for Dreams of Love) is a set of three solo piano works (S.541/R.211) by which composer, published in 1850? | show 🗑
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| show | Hector Berlioz
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| show | Richard Strauss
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| show | Olivier Messiaen
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| The Bachianas Brasileiras are a series of nine suites by which Brazilian composer (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959)? | show 🗑
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| show | La Boheme (Puccini)
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| The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written which French composer and pianist? | show 🗑
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| "Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy" (1983) was the first album by who? | show 🗑
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| show | Pole Vault
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| Which US academic wrote the book "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance"? | show 🗑
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| show | My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln
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| Which Indian state takes its present name for the Malayalam for "coconut tree" and became the first functional fully-literate state in India in 1991? | show 🗑
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| Which decade saw the following: the launch of the Mary Rose at Portsmouth; the arrival of conquistador Hernan de Cortes in the Aztec court of Tenochtitlan; the death of da Vinci, and the publication of Luther's 95 Theses? | show 🗑
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| show | Suspension of Disbelief
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| Which actress, the youngest 20th century Oscar recipient said "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was taken to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph"? | show 🗑
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| show | Pele
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| show | Leonid Brezhnev
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| Who was the reigning monarch the first occasion that London hosted the Olympics? | show 🗑
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| show | Eruption of Vesuvius in 1906 (funds needed to be diverted to Naples)
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| show | p-Orbital
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| show | Ammonia
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| In the Bible, the flood occurs when Noah is what age? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to the intergovernmental military alliance that was signed on 15 May 1992 between nations of the former USSR? | show 🗑
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| show | Syria
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| show | Sucrose
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| Which Renaissance artist's name means "Sloppy Tom"? | show 🗑
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| show | 1385-1441
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| Which pharaoh is represented by the Sphinx? | show 🗑
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| Amun was the patron deity of which ancient Egyptian city, a position he obtained by replacing Monthu? | show 🗑
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| Which multidisciplinary scientific journal, first launched in 1869 published landmark papers such as Chadwick's discovery of the neutron and Crick & Watson's discovery of the structure of DNA? | show 🗑
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| In the 1980s, father and son Luis & Walter Alvarez discovered a distinct layer of which chemical element, atomic number 77, in a geologic layer of the time the dinosaurs died out? Abundant in space at the time, it gave rise to the 'meteor impact' theory. | show 🗑
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| show | Paganini
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| show | Neutral Milk Hotel
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| Which military commander, a descendant of Henry III, was knighted by Edward III at age 14 and was a character in Henry IV: Part 1? | show 🗑
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| As of 2018, Prime Minister's Questions takes place on which day in the UK? | show 🗑
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| show | Beijing
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| show | Invictus
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| In May 2017, which Kenyan athlete ran a marathon distance at Monza in 2 hours 25 seconds? | show 🗑
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| show | Montserrat Caballé
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| Which Swedish chemist discovered and isolated several new elements, including cerium (1803) and thorium (1828), invented the terms "catalysis," "polymer," "isomer," and "allotrope," and first named compounds "organic" and "inorganic"? | show 🗑
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| show | Urea
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| show | Ethane
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| What is the simplest of the aldehydes, with the formula CH2O (H-CHO)? | show 🗑
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| show | Heat of vaporisation/enthalpy of vaporisation
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| show | Pantera
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| show | Niger
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| Which word was coined by Karl Brunner in 1968 to describe the economic theories of Milton Friedman? | show 🗑
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| Who was the Austrian zoologist, a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1948 and author of 'King Solomon's Ring', who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1973 for his studies of animal behavioural patterns? | show 🗑
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| 'The Canterbury Tales' tells the stories of a collection of pilgrims travelling to Canterbury from which London borough? | show 🗑
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| Who took the famous "Guerrillero Heroico" photo of Che Guevara in 1960? | show 🗑
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| show | USC Trojans
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| show | Ali
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| Of the Twelve Olympians, how many have names starting with the letter 'A'? | show 🗑
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| In the NFL, what was the seventh official, added in 1978? He rules on pass interference, illegal blocks downfield, and incomplete passes. He also counts defensive players. | show 🗑
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| show | Ibn Sina/Avicenna
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| In Greek mythology, who were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue? Their name means "raving ones". | show 🗑
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| Giving its name to a famous son and painter from the town, what is the capital of the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands? | show 🗑
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| show | Claus Sluter
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| Described as the "Russian Amazon" which online retailer was established in 1998 by the Russian software house Reksoft? | show 🗑
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| show | Lord Melbourne
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| "Midnight Heat" is a perfume created by which singer? | show 🗑
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| First produced in 431BCE, "Medea" is an ancient Greek tragedy written by who? | show 🗑
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| Who succeeded Laura Bush as US First Lady? | show 🗑
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| show | Fox
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| How many players in England's 1966 World Cup winning starting eleven were called "Bobby"? | show 🗑
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| show | Diphthong
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| show | Hispaniola (Treasure Island)
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| Which English actor is known for his leading role as Steven Toast in the Channel 4 sitcom Toast of London, and also for his appearances in The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, Snuff Box, and The Wrong Door and House of Fools? | show 🗑
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| show | Curling stones
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| Violet Jessop is known for surviving the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, and which other ship in 1916? | show 🗑
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| show | Austin
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| show | Cousin
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| show | Malthusian League
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| Which French naturalist (1744-1829) is now chiefly remembered for his theory of "soft inheritance", where he held that organisms could pass on acquired characteristics? | show 🗑
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| show | Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
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| What name is given to the use of reproductive and genetic technologies to select and genetically modify embryos with germinal choice technology for the purpose of human enhancement? | show 🗑
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| In Homer, who was Odysseus's wife? | show 🗑
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| Which Greek word, which in its basic sense means "excellence of any kind" was used to describe heroic courage? | show 🗑
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| show | Peru
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| show | St Lucia
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| show | Birgit Fischer
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| What was the usual one-word name for the political youth organization in the Soviet Union? | show 🗑
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| What colour is the leftmost ring on the Olympic flag? | show 🗑
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| What colour is the rightmost ring on the Olympic flag? | show 🗑
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| show | Black
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| Where is the flame for the Summer Olympics ignited? | show 🗑
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| What type of animal was Waldi, the first Olympic mascot, used at the 1972 Summer Olympics? | show 🗑
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| show | Silver
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| Which Greek deity appears on Olympic medals? | show 🗑
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| Tā moko is the permanent body and face marking by which indigenous people? | show 🗑
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| show | Operation Weserübung
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| Which one of the five stem duchies of the medieval German kingdom was proclaimed by the Ahalolfing count palatine Erchanger in 915 and comprised territory stretching from the Alsatian Vosges mountain range in the west to the river Lech in the east? | show 🗑
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| show | Duchy of Franconia
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| Reigning as Duke of Saxony 1142–1180 and Duke of Bavaria 1156-80, who, at the height of his reign, ruled over a vast territory stretching from the coast of the North and Baltic Seas to the Alps, and from Westphalia to Pomerania? | show 🗑
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| Which group of infectious diseases can be due to Rickettsia prowazekii spread by body lice, Orientia tsutsugamushi spread by chiggers, or a third bacteria spread by fleas? | show 🗑
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| show | Hymenoptera
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| Which order of carnivorous insects, encompassing the dragonflies (Anisoptera) and the damselflies (Zygoptera) has a name derived from the Greek for 'tooth'? | show 🗑
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| Which order of insects that comprises the caddis flies, has a name meaning 'hairy wing'? | show 🗑
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| show | Saul Bellow
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| show | Allan Bloom
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| show | Herzog
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| show | Holi
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| In logic, what name is given to a formula or assertion that is true in every possible interpretation? | show 🗑
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| Born in 1806, which British mathematician and logician gives his name to a pair of laws that state the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; and the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations? | show 🗑
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| show | Modus Ponens
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| Members of the genus Nelombo are commonly given what name? | show 🗑
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| What is defined as the entire set of proteins expressed by a genome, cell, tissue, or organism at a certain time? | show 🗑
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| From the Greek for 'to move', what name is given to an enzyme that catalyses the transfer of phosphate groups from high-energy, phosphate-donating molecules to specific substrates? | show 🗑
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| The "portrait trilogy" was a work by which US composer? | show 🗑
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| show | Denmark
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| During the 1960s and 1970s Nauru had the highest per-capita income of any nation in the world due to which export? | show 🗑
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| show | Vojvodina
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| Mentioned in the Iliad with the same name as it currently has, what is the capital of the island of Euboea? | show 🗑
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| show | Manchester
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| Characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves, what name is given to a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum? | show 🗑
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| show | Brecon Beacons
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| show | Swale
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| Kastrup is the old name for which major international airport? | show 🗑
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| show | Piccadilly
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| What is the capital city of the Indian state of Gujarat? | show 🗑
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||||
| Atomic Number 80, which element of the Periodic Table lies between Gold and Thallium, beneath Cadmium and above Copernicium? | show 🗑
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||||
| Tim Minchin is the composer and lyricist of which Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated show that debuted in the West End on 24 November 2011 at the Cambridge Theatre? | show 🗑
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| show | Ligases
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| show | Thrace
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| show | OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
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| show | Rachel Portman
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| "Demand me nothing. ... From this time forth I never will speak word" are the last words of which Shakespeare character? | show 🗑
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| show | 950
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| Which Roman Emperor was born Gaius Caesar in 12AD? | show 🗑
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| show | NASA
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| In art, the three secondary colours are orange, violet and which other? | show 🗑
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| show | Flute
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| show | Pablo Picasso
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| show | Dr Seuss
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| show | 1960s (1966)
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| Which English composer and member of the women's suffrage movement wrote the operas Fantasio (1892–94), Der Wald (1899–1901),The Wreckers (1902–04) and The Boatswain's Mate (1913–14)? | show 🗑
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| show | Ohio
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| The first word allegedly said by Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad was "Iqra!" which means what? | show 🗑
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| What was the "bunny hug" in the early 20th century? | show 🗑
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| show | Tangier
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| Who played Alfred Hitchcock in the 2012 biographical film "Hitchcock"? | show 🗑
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||||
| The Chiltern hills are primarily made of what substance? | show 🗑
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| show | Maleficent
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| Which sailor's widow, Elizabeth Throckmorton, carried his embalmed head around in a red velvet bag after his death? | show 🗑
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| show | The Diddy Men
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| show | King of Sweden
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|
||||
| In chess notation, the Knight is represented by what letter? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Rabbit
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|
||||
| show | Ariana Grande
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