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What is the name of the type of pizza which is folded like a calzone but is fried rather than baked?

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Panzerotti

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Sharing his forename and surname with his father a former World Heavyweight boxing champion who is the only person to win Super Bowl rings in three consecutive years doing so for Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers from 1993-5?

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Ken Norton Jr

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In which sport did Brit Nicola Adams win Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016?

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Boxing

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The ten-letter name of which breed of draught horse includes the name of a Scottish river in its name?

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Clydesdale

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In 2016 which global literary prize switched from being awarded to an author for his or her body of work to being awarded to a specific novel? The Albanian Ismail Kadare won the first of these awards in 2005 for his body of work.

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Man Booker International Prize (do not accept or prompton answers lacking both words)

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A significant political figure in her own right Soong Mei-ling was married to which man who led the Republic of China from 1928 to 1975 initially on the mainland and then in exile in Taiwan?

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Chiang Kai-shek

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Which desert which occupies about 70% of Turkmenistan has a name meaning black sand in Turkic languages?

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Karakum

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Which Beatles track featuring on the album Rubber Soul but never released as a single begins I once had a girl or should I say she once had me?

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Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

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Ryan Hall in 2014 and Tom Briscoe in 2015 are the most recent rugby league players to win the Lance Todd trophy whilst representing which club?

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Leeds Rhinos

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In 1806 the French chemists Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated the first example of what class of organic molecules which form the building blocks of proteins?

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Amino acids

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Who is the creator of the webcomic of romance sarcasm math and language xkcd?

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Randall Munroe

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What is the forename and surname of the character from the comic Viz who has unfeasibly large testicles?

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Buster Gonad

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Christophe de Margerie served as the Chief Executive Officer of which French multinational company before dying in an aircraft crash in 2014?

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Total S.A.

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Which Australian ballet dancer (1909-1986) played the sinister Child Catcher in the 1963 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

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Robert Helpmann

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The name of what generic type of painting is also used for a page which is oriented so that the height of the page is greater than the width?

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Portrait

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Which MP until then the long-serving Secretary of State for Health replaced Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary in July 2018?

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Jeremy Hunt

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Which 1918 comic opera by Puccini is based on and named after a character in Dante’s Inferno?

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Gianni Schicchi

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British archaeologist Austen Layard rediscovered the lost palace of Sennacherib in 1849 at which capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire?

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Nineveh

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What street in Soho was formerly known as Britain’s Tin Pan Alley being the home of many British songwriters and publishers and their meeting place The Giaconda?

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Denmark Street

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A joint venture between BBC ITV Channel 4 Sky and Arqiva what name is given to the UK’s digital terrestrial television platform? Since 2008 all televisions have a built in tuner but before then a separate set-top box was needed.

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Freeview

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Known as Acetominophen in the US which painkiller can result in liver damage if taken in an overdose?

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Paracetamol

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What number is known as huit in French and ocho in Spanish?

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8

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Which was the first British club to participate in the European Cup in 1955 being defeated in the semi-final by eventual runners-up Stade de Reims?

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Hibernian

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Which family of multitasking multiuser computer operating systems developed from work by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs are characterised by a modular design philosophy?

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UNIX (do not accept Linux)

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Although punctuated slightly differently what is the shared name of the capital cities of Guyana and the Cayman Islands?
Georgetown /George Town
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Which four letters which themselves form a word precede Light in the title of the 2015 Academy Award winning film about The Boston Globe's investigation into child abuse by Roman Catholic priests?
Spot
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Which Korean religion originates from the 19th century Donghak religious movement and ultimately from an 1812 Peasant revolution during the Joseon dynasty?
Cheondoism
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Which town in eastern Croatia was besieged in an 87 day action in 1991 which was the fiercest and most protracted European battle since World War II? It was almost completely destroyed in the action.
Vukovar
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The victorious 2018 European Ryder Cup team contained two Swedes – wildcard Henrik Stenson and which other player making his debut in the event?
Alex Noren
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In fluid dynamics what name is given to the type of rough flow characterised by chaotic changes in pressure and fluid velocity and predicted by a high Reynolds number?
Turbulent flow
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British tailor John Emary founded which British luxury clothing company after inventing waterproof wool the name of the company reflecting the invention with its name meaning watershield in Latin?
Aquascutum
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Sarah Mullally who was formerly the UK's Chief Nursing Officer was in 2018 the first woman to be appointed to which specific ecclesiastical role?
Bishop of London
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No English team participated in the inaugural European Cup in 1955 because which English champions had been barred from participation by the FA showing their usual far-sightedness?
Chelsea
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Sharing his forename and surname with his father a former World Heavyweight boxing champion who is the only remaining member of the main cast of the TV show The Beverley Hillbillies to still be alive?
Max Baer Jr
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Nurofen is a brand of what non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug which can cause gastro-intestinal bleeding if taken in excessive amounts?
Ibuprofen
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Which four letters which themselves form a word precede Light in the title of the 2016 Academy Award winning film about the struggles faced by a young African-American man Chiron Harris coming to terms with his sexuality and identity?
Moon
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What street in Soho has Blue Plaques commemorating several live music venues including the sites of the Marquee Club and Flamingo? It was namechecked in the title of a Jam song which formed a double A side with David Watts.
Wardour Street
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A significant political figure in her own right and the sister of Soong Mei-ling Soong Ching-ling was the third wife of which founding father of the Republic of China and co-founder and first leader of the Kuomintang?
Sun Yat-sen
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Which 1875 symphonic poem by Tchaikovsky is based on and named after a character in Dante's Inferno?
Francesca da Rimini
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In fluid dynamics what name is given to the type of smooth flow that occurs in parallel layers with no disruption between those layers and predicted by a low Reynolds number?
Laminar flow
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A major beret supplier to the armed forces during World War II which British clothing company famous for its headwear derived its name for the words kangaroo angora and wool?
Kangol
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Freeview was launched in 2002 in the wake of the collapse of which digital terrestrial television platform which began life as ONdigital in 1998? Its collapse badly affected the finances of many Football League clubs with whom it had a broadcasting deal.
ITV Digital
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The victorious 2018 European Ryder Cup team contained two Spaniards – wildcard Sergio Garcia and which other player making his debut in the event?
Jon Rahm
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What is the forename and surname of the character from the comic Viz who is inflicted with extreme flatulence?
Johnny Fartpants
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Which Japanese religion originates from the teaching of the 19th century woman Nakayama Miki known to her followers as Oyasama?
Tenrikyo or Tenriism
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Which software language with a recursive acronymic name was developed in 1983 by Richard Stallman as an attempt to create a free UNIX-like system?
GNU (accept GNU’s Not Unix!)
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What is the shared name of the capital cities of the Seychelles and the Canadian province of British Columbia?
Victoria
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Which politician resigned as Brexit Secretary in July 2018 prompting Boris Johnson's resignation as Foreign Secretary?
David Davis
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Which Chinese desert has a Uighur name said to mean place of ruins or place of no return?
Taklamakan
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British archaeologist Leonard Wooley excavated the remains of a namesake Ziggurat from 1922 in which Sumerian city one of the world's oldest located in modern-day Iraq?
Ur
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Which novelist who died in 2018 won the 2011 Man Booker International Prize for his body of work which includes I Married A Communist and Sabbath's Theater? Notoriously this writer never won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Philip Roth
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The first amino acid to be isolated by Vauquelin and Robiquet was derived as its name suggests from which vegetable?
Asparagus
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In which sport did the British pair Helen Glover and Heather Stanning win Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016?
Rowing
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What number is known as fünf in German and cinque [CHIN-kway] in Italian?
5
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What is the name of the type of pizza which is folded like a calzone but instead of being folded into a half moon shaped it is folded into a tube?
Stromboli
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Which Russian-American ballet dancer (1949-1995) played an Amish farmer Daniel Hochleitner in Witness and the German terrorist Karl in Die Hard?
Alexander Godunov
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The name of what generic type of painting is also used for a page which is oriented so that the width of the page is greater than the height?
Landscape
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The two-word name of which breed of draught horse contains the name of an English county in its name?
Suffolk Punch (accept Suffolk Sorrel)
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Richard Cousins served as the Chief Executive Officer of which British multinational company before dying in an aircraft crash in 2017?
Compass Group
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After its fall Vukovar became part of which self-declared Serb Republic within Croatia which was ultimately recaptured by Croat forces in 1995?
Krajina
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Which blog by Randall Munroe highlights of which were published in 2014 contains his answers to hypothetical science questions sent to him by readers of his webcomic xkcd?
What if?
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Which Beatles track featuring on the album Rubber Soul but never released as a single begins There are places I'll remember going to observe some have gone and some remain?
In My Life
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Jeff Lima in 2011 and Matty Smith in 2013 are the most recent rugby league players to win the Lance Todd trophy whilst representing which club?
Wigan Warriors
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Sarah Clarke was in 2018 the first woman to be appointed to which post the official responsible for maintaining the buildings services and security of the Palace of Westminster? The word Gentleman in the full name of this role thus had to be changed.
Lady Usher of the Black Rod
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Phillip Glass’ Portrait Trilogy of operas comprises Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha and which other work based on the life of an Egyptian Pharaoh?
Akhenaten
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Willy Brandt resigned as West German Chancellor in 1974 when which of his close aides was unmasked as a Stasi agent?
Gunter Guillaume
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The main families in the 1980s TV soap operas Dynasty and Dallas both made their fortunes in which industry?
Oil
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Which 1930 poem about his conversion to Christianity did T.S. Eliot name after the first day of Lent?
Ash Wednesday

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