1 |
In which European capital city is Oscar Wilde buried? |
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Paris |
2 |
Apart from Cyprus, which is the only other Commonwealth country in the Mediterranean Sea? |
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Malta |
3 |
What was the surname of the first father and son to be presidents of the USA? |
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Adams |
4 |
What does CAMRA stand for? |
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Campaign for Real Ale |
5 |
If you are a quinquagenarian, how old are you? |
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In your 50s |
6 |
What is the capital of Saudi Arabia? |
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Riyadh |
7 |
In which Shakespeare play does the eponymous character smother his wife? |
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Othello |
8 |
Which of Henry VIII's wives did he complain was a Flanders mare? |
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Anne of Cleves |
9 |
Flushing Meadows, Roland Garros and Melbourne Park are all Grand Slam venues in which sport? |
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Tennis |
10 |
Apart from Charles, the Prince of Wales has another three Christian names. Name one of them. |
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Philip, Arthur, George |
11 |
In which European city is the UN's International Court of Justice based? |
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The Hague |
12 |
In Scottish cuisine, what is a bannock? |
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A griddle cake of oatmeal, barley etc. (accept "cake"
etc.) |
13 |
The Angel of the North is erected next to which major road? |
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A1 (Accept A167 from show–offs) |
14 |
Obstetrics is the study of what? |
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Childbirth |
15 |
Which term for heavy summer rain in Asia is also the name of a high street clothing chain? |
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Monsoon |
16 |
On 31st October 1517, who nailed a piece of paper on a church door in Germany that, according to his followers, kick–started the Reformation? |
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Martin Luther |
17 |
Which Simon and Garfunkel song features the lyrics "Jesus loves you more than you will know"? |
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Mrs Robinson |
18 |
Which Latin phrase means 'in good faith'? |
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Bona Fide |
19 |
In maths, what is meant by two dots on the baseline and one dot above in a triangular formation? |
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Therefore |
20 |
Who was leader of the Conservative Party for the 2005 General Election? |
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Michael Howard |
21 |
Alphabetically, which is the last county in England? |
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Worcestershire |
22 |
The Lutine Bell is in which London institution? |
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Lloyds |
23 |
Whose backing singers were called 'the Pips'? |
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Gladys Knight |
24 |
Where was the treaty signed that established the EEC? |
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Rome |
25 |
Which 1965 novel written by Frank Herbert was adapted into a 1984 movie directed by David Lynch? |
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Dune |
26 |
In which US city would you find the Woolworth Building? |
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New York (Manhattan) |
27 |
Which novelist won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature? |
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Kazuo Ishiguro (author of Remains of the Day) |
28 |
What is the name of the military force responsible for the security of Vatican City? |
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Swiss Guard |
29 |
Which Northern Irish adventurer became the youngest ever Chief Scout in 2009 at the age of 35? |
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Bear Grylls |
30 |
Whose Weird Weekends led him to meet survivalists, porn stars and wrestlers (among many others)? |
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Louis Theroux |
31 |
Who was assassinated in 1990 when an explosive was placed beneath his Austin Montego by the IRA, which exploded as he reversed
out of his driveway? |
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Ian Gow |
32 |
In which English county would you find the Lakeside – home of the BDO Darts World Championship? |
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Surrey |
33 |
Which country is home to the car manufacturer Dacia (pronounced dacha)? |
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Romania |
34 |
Which town is home to the football team known as the Spireites? |
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Chesterfield |
35 |
The Worcestershire Way runs 31 miles from Bewdley to where? |
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Great Malvern (accept Malvern) |
36 |
In the waters of which country would you find the wreck of the Rainbow Warrior? |
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New Zealand |
37 |
Which German composer lived in Bayreuth, Bavaria and built a theatre there at which festivals of his music have been heard ever
since? |
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Richard Wagner |
38 |
Which British novelist also wrote under the name of Barbara Vine? |
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Ruth Rendell |
39 |
1,2,3, etc are cardinal numbers. What sort of numbers are 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc? |
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Ordinal |
40 |
Brian Faulkner was the last holder of which office in Northern Ireland? |
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Prime Minister |
41 |
In Greek mythology, which dying monster gave birth to Pegasus? |
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Medusa |
42 |
Zoomorphism is the representation of deities in the form of what? |
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Animals |
43 |
Which country has the largest muslim population in the world? |
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Indonesia |
44 |
What is the name of the family whose story is central to the Godfather films? |
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Corleone |
45 |
Which former Portuguese overseas territory was returned to China in December 1999? |
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Macau |
46 |
Who was the last British Prime Minister to die in office? |
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Lord Palmerston |
47 |
Who created the TV series Cracker? |
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Jimmy McGovern |
48 |
The reality TV show Big Brother was first televised in 1999 in which country? |
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The Netherlands |
49 |
Who is the youngest driver to have won the Formula One drivers championship? |
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Sebastian Vettel (he was 23 years and 123 days old) |
50 |
Which Dutch city is known for its blue and white pottery? |
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Delft |
51 |
Which subatomic particle comes in six different flavors? |
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Quarks |
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52 |
Which brand of cookie is the mobile phone operating system Android 8 named after? |
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Oreo |
53 |
Jerry Springer was elected mayor of which important Ohio city in 1977? |
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Cincinnati |
54 |
How many hours long is the famous motorcycle endurance race held at the Suzuka Circuit in Japan each year? |
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Eight hours |
55 |
What is the name of the aura of plasma that surrounds the Sun which is visible during a solar eclipse? |
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Corona |
56 |
What was the name of the hurricane that caused major flooding in Houston, Texas in 2017? |
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Harvey |
57 |
Which country's land borders, 909 kilometres (565 mi) long, are shared only with South Africa? |
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Kingdom of Lesotho |
58 |
Which is the largest brass instrument in an orchestra? |
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Tuba |
59 |
Who is the current Shadow Home Secretary? |
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Diane Abbott |
60 |
Helles or Hell is a traditional German style of what? |
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Beer (pale lager) |
61 |
Which ruined Cistercian monastery is two miles from Ripon, North Yorkshire? |
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Fountains Abbey |
62 |
Broadcasting Tower, winner of the (world's) Best Tall Building Overall Award in 2010, is in which British city? |
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Leeds |
63 |
In an Indian restaurant, what is murgh? |
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Chicken |
64 |
Which traditional British pudding is made from custard thickened with breadcrumbs, topped with jam and meringue? |
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Queen of Puddings |
65 |
Which retailer claimed in its advertising to be "good with food"? |
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The Co–Op |
66 |
Which car manufacturer used the advertising slogan "Motion and emotion"? |
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Peugeot |
67 |
Which German battleship, a sister ship to the Bismarck, was named after the founder of the German Navy? |
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Tirpitz |
68 |
To which legendary Greek poet are the Iliad and the Odyssey attributed? |
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Homer |
69 |
Today is Wayne Rooney's birthday. How old is he now? |
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32 |
70 |
Today is also the birthday of former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman. How old is he? (some leeway on this one) |
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81 (accept 79–83) |
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71 |
At 430 metres below sea level (and falling), what is the world's lowest lake? |
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The Dead Sea |
72 |
England's largest reservoir, by capacity, is Kielder Water. Which is the largest in terms of surface area? |
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Rutland Water |
73 |
Which "costa" is the Atlantic coast of south–western Spain? |
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Costa de la Luz |
74 |
Granville Island, False Creek, English Bay and Coal Harbour are coastal features of which Commonwealth city? |
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Vancouver |
75 |
Which range of hills, previously under Syrian control, has been occupied by Israel since 1967? |
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The Golan Heights |
76 |
Famous nowadays for the festival that takes place there in July each year, which city was historically the capital
of the kingdom of Navarre? |
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Pamplona (the festival is of course the Running of the Bulls) |
77 |
Which football club, based in Pamplona and relegated (again) from La Liga in 2017, has a name that's
Basque for 'health', 'strength' or 'vigour'? |
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Osasuna |
78 |
Penshaw Monument features in the badge or crest of which Football League club? |
|
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Sunderland |
79 |
Which French engineer built the Suez Canal, but failed to build the Panama Canal? |
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Ferdinand de Lesseps |
80 |
If something is described as infundibular, what does this mean? |
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It's funnel–shaped |
81 |
What word, originally used of Greek city–states and derived from the Greek word for a leader, is used to describe political
dominance by one member of a supposedly equal group? |
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Hegemony (hed–JEM–uh–nee) |
82 |
Once the fastest 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car' on Top Gear, which former model is the great–granddaughter
of the first Lord Beaverbrook? |
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Jodie Kidd |
83 |
Which Russian former tennis player has been "romantically linked" with the Spanish singer, songwriter, actor and
record producer Enrique Iglesias since 2001? |
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Anna Kournikova |
84 |
What do the letters F, H, V, W and Y have uniquely in common? |
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They each score 4 points in Scrabble |
85 |
How many tiles are there in a mahjong set (standard westernised version)? |
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144 |
86 |
Which mythical creature could kill with its breath, or with a glance, and gets its name from the Latin word for a
royal child? |
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The basilisk |
87 |
In Greek mythology, who was the mother of Castor and Pollux, Helen of Troy, and Clytemnestra? |
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Leda |
88 |
In which US city did Bob Marley die, and John Stonehouse fake his death? |
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Miami |
89 |
What's the most abundant metal in the human body, and the fifth most abundant element? |
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Calcium |
90 |
What type of creature are the chuckwalla, the galliwasp and the horny toad? |
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Lizards |
91 |
The bee hummingbird, the world's smallest bird, is native to which Caribbean island nation? |
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Cuba |
92 |
Which former Irish Taoiseach (TEE–shock) or Prime Minister – in office from 1973 to 1977 – died earlier this month? |
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Liam Cosgrave |
93 |
Jalal Talabani died earlier this month. Of which country was he the first non–Arab president, from 2005 to 2014? |
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Iraq |
94 |
Jalal Talabani died of a brain haemorrhage. Please spell 'haemorrhage', as listed in the Oxford English
Dictionary (i.e. the UK spelling as opposed to the US). |
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H–A–E–M–O–R–R–H–A–G–E |
95 |
You've probably guessed what's coming next: Liam Cosgrave was Irish Taoiseach (TEE–shock) for
four years in the 1970s.
Please spell Taoiseach. |
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T–A–O–I–S–E–A–C–H |
96 |
What is a Dorset Knob? |
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It's a type of biscuit. (Accept button. The biscuit
was named after the button.) |
97 |
Which common plant has the Latin name Urtica dioica (die–O–ica)? |
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The common (stinging) nettle |
98 |
Who is Sylvia, What is She? is a song by Schubert, set to a serenade from which Shakespeare play (where
Silvia is the daughter of the Duke of Milan)? |
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
99 |
Which canal, just under 4 miles long, links the Aegean and Ionian seas, and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the rest
of mainland Greece? |
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The Corinth Canal |
100 |
Give one of David Beckham's two middle names. |
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Robert or Joseph |
101 |
Give either of the real forenames of the former boxer Barry McGuigan. |
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Finbar or Patrick |
102 |
Which 1984 film has portrayals of Napoleon Bonaparte, Billy the Kid, Socrates, Sigmund Freud, Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc,
Abraham Lincoln and Ludwig van Beethoven? |
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure |
103 |
Which 2016 bio–pic starred Tom Hanks and was based on the 2012 memoir Highest Duty: My Search for What Really
Matters? |
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Sully (Hanks played the heroic pilot Chesley Sullenberger) |
104 |
Which 'ism' is missing from the following quotation, which has been attributed to (or used by) Morgan Phillips, Harold Wilson,
James Callaghan and
Denis Healey: "The Labour Party owes more to [blank] than to Marxism"? |
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Methodism |
105 |
Of which Hollywood star did Howard Hughes say, "That man's ears make him look like a taxi–cab with
both doors open"? |
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Clark Gable |
106 |
Appointed following Manuel Valls's resignation in December 2016, but voted out with Francois Hollande five months
later, who was the shortest serving Prime Minister (to date) in France's Fifth Republic? |
|
Bernard Cazeneuve |
107 |
Which French President appointed Edith Cresson as the country's first female Prime Minister (in May 1991)? |
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Francois Mitterand |
108 |
Why was comedian Simon Brodkin in the news recently? |
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He was the 'prankster' who waved a fake P45 at
Theresa May during her keynote speech at the Conservative party conference (as mentioned in the League last week, but
without naming him!) |
109 |
No relation (as far as we know) to the captain of the late, lamented Chester Road Tavern 'A' quiz team, why
did Sam Quilliam require urgent paramedic attention recently? |
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For the extraction of a fish which had jumped down his
throat when he tried to kiss it. Accept "He swallowed a fish" |
110 |
In what was arguably her breakthrough role, who played Chrissie's wife Angie in Boys from the Blackstuff? |
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Julie Walters (Chrissie was played by Michael Angelis) |
111 |
At the Rio Olympics in 2016, Inbee Park of South Korea became the first women's champion since 1900, in which sport
or event? |
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Golf |
112 |
Which US player partnered Martina Navratilova to 20 of her 29 Women's (or Ladies') Doubles titles, including a
Grand Slam in 1984? |
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Pam Shriver |
113 |
Who was on the throne when Britain changed from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian? |
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George II (1752) |
114 |
In The Archers, to which saint is Ambridge's parish church dedicated? |
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Stephen |
115 |
Who chose Japanese Jailbird, written from personal experience by her famous father and given only to his children,
as her book on Desert Island Discs on 25 June 2017? |
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Stella McCartney |
116 |
Writing in 1503, who first referred to Rome's "Five Good Emperors"? |
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Niccolo Machiavelli |
117 |
Also known as the Lion of the North, which King led Sweden to military supremacy during the Thirty Years' War, but was
killed in 1632 during the Battle of Lützen? |
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Gustav II Adolf, or Gustavus Adolphus |
118 |
Since November 2014, what role has Professor Steven Stern played in world cricket? |
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He's the new custodian of the Duckworth–Lewis method
(now known as the Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method), since the respective retirements of Messrs. Duckworth and Lewis |
119 |
17–year–old Cassandra Mortmain is the protagonist and narrator of which novel, first published in 1949? |
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I Capture the Castle (by Dodie Smith) |
120 |
CIA agent Alden Pyle is the title character of which novel, first published in 1955? |
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The Quiet American (by Graham Greene) |
1 |
Which part of speech modifies or describes a verb? |
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Adverb |
2 |
What name is commonly given to the red transparent variety of the mineral corundum? |
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Ruby |
3 |
Which 19th century Dublin–born philanthropist gave up the idea of missionary work in China in order to raise money to
provide homeless children with a place to sleep in London's East End? |
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Dr Thomas John Barnardo |
4 |
Who played Doña Jimena Díaz, the wife of the title character, in the 1961 film El Cid? |
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Sophia Loren |
5 |
If a skyscraper is over 100 metres tall, and a "supertall" skyscraper is over 300 metres tall, what adjective is officially
used by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat to describe a skyscraper of over 600 metres? |
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Megatall |
6 |
What do corkscrews, snails, butterflies and guitars have in common? |
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They're all types of pasta |
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