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Who in 2018 became the third Briton but the first born within the UK to win the Tour de France doing so for Team Sky?

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Geraint Thomas

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Home to about a seventh of the population of the town of Barrow-in-Furness the Isle of Walney lies off the coast of which English county?

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Cumbria

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Premiering in 1893 who composed the music to the ballet Les Sylphides?

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Frédéric Chopin

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Found in North America which is the only one of the four species of lynx which does not have the word lynx in its common name?

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Bobcat

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Which deranged lawyer assassinated James Garfield in Washington D.C. in 1881?

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Charles Guiteau

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What is the reduplicated name of the dim-witted characters played by Tim McInnerny in the first and second series of Blackadder?

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Percy Percy

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What name is given the ritual feast involving retelling the story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery as well as eating matza and performing songs which marks the beginning of Passover in Judaism?

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Seder

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In Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky what adjective is used to describe the sword used by the slayer of the Jabberwock?

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Vorpal

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Which blogger and YouTube personality whose real name is Mark Hoyle had the 2018 UK Christmas number one single with a parody version of the song We Built This City?

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LadBaby

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One of the Big Five global extinction events occurred some 450 million years ago as the Ordovician period transitioned into which other geological period?

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Silurian

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Which female tennis player won her only Grand Slam singles title in 1978 taking her home event the Australian Open?

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Christine O’Neill

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In Argonauts of the Western Pacific Bronislaw Malinowski studied which ceremonial exchange system of the Trobriand Islanders which involved the exchange of jewellery between islands in the chain?

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Kula ring system

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Esther Summerson Lady Dedlock and John Jarndyce are characters in which novel by Charles Dickens?

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Bleak House

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The forename of which South African religious and political figure winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is also slang for a Lower Second Class degree?

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Desmond Tutu (prompt on Desmond)

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Which former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree became one of a number of MPs to form The Independent Group in February 2019 partly driven by concern about anti-Semitism within the Labour Party?

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Luciana Berger

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Under what name did William Crump record many music hall staples such as Boiled Beef & Carrots in 1909 and A Little Bit of Cucumber in 1915?

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Harry Champion

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Which Polish-born British historian’s works include The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (1929) and England in the Age of the American Revolution (1930)?

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Lewis Namier

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Two designers share the record of four Academy Awards for Best Costume Designer by a living designer. One is which Italian designer who has won for films including Barry Lyndon Chariots of Fire and The Grand Budapest Hotel?

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Milena Canonero

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Only attributed to him in 2011 which painting of Christ by Leonardo da Vinci became in 2017 the most expensive painting ever sold?

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Salvator Mundi (accept Saviour of the World)

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Individuals with the Rhesus positive form of which of the four main blood types are referred to as universal donors?

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O

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With a four-letter name which diving position involves folding the body into a tight ball with hands holding the shins and toes pointed?

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Tuck

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Which mountain pass in the Alps linking Ticino and Uri cantons in Switzerland is home to three tunnels including a namesake base tunnel completed in 2016 which became the world’s longest railway tunnel?

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(St) Gotthard Pass

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Which is the largest and lowest-pitched instrument in the brass family?

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Tuba

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What substance with chemical formula NH3 is produced by the Haber-Bosch process?

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Ammonia

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Which English writer of Gothic stories is known for her novels The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho?
Ann Radcliffe
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What hobby involves sewing two or more items together to make a thicker padded garment?
Quilting
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The Liber Winton covering Winchester was a supplement to which historical survey from which Winchester had been omitted?
Domesday Book
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Which comic book villain and enemy of Superman has been played on screen by Gene Hackman Kevin Spacey and Jesse Eisenberg?
Lex Luthor
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Released in 1973 which fifth studio album by Led Zeppelin includes tracks such as The Song Remains The Same The Rain Song and D'Yer Maker?
Houses of the Holy
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Responsible for the discovery of an eponymous metabolic pathway also known as the lactic acid cycle which husband and wife received the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen?
(Carl-Ferdinand and Gerty) Cori
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The Austrian Ralph Hasenhüttl replaced Mark Hughes as manager of which Premier League football team in December 2018?
Southampton
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Which country gives its name to the large endorheic lake in central Africa the area of which shrank by about 95% between 1963 and 1998?
Chad
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The deepest instrument in the woodwind family is a large version of what other instrument which is prefixed by contra- to form its name?
Bassoon
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Hayling Island the third largest in England is in the borough of Havant and lies off the coast of which English country?
Hampshire
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With a four-letter name which diving position involves keeping the knees straight but with a slight bend at the hips?
Pike
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What hobby involves using needles to sew different sizes and shapes of fabric onto a larger piece to make a design?
Appliqué
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Depicting Ludovico Sforza's mistress Cecilia Gallerani holding an animal which painting by Leonardo da Vinci has been displayed in the National Museum in Krakow Poland since 2017?
Lady with an Ermine (accept Girl with an Ermine)
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What is the reduplicated name of the pathetic character played by Rik Mayall in the sitcom Bottom?
Richard Richard (accept Richie Richard)
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Which German-born British historian's works include The Tudor Revolution in Government (1953) and The Practice of History (1967)?
Geoffrey Elton
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They pioneered research into the brain's mechanisms involved in spatial representation; which husband and wife received the 2014 Nobel prize in Medicine for for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain?
(May-Britt and Edvard) Moser
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The Italian Claudio Ranieri replaced Slaviša Jokanovi? as manager of which Premier League football team in November 2018?
Fulham
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Individuals with the Rhesus positive form of which of the four main blood types are referred to as universal recipients?
AB
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Released in 1975 which sixth studio album by Led Zeppelin includes tracks such as Trampled Under Foot In My Time of Dying and Kashmir?
Physical Graffiti
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Exchange systems such as the North American potlatch system were studied by the sociologist Marcel Mauss in which influential short work?
The Gift
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Which King commissioned the Domesday Book?
William I (accept William the Conqueror)
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What acid with chemical formula H2SO4 is produced using the contact process?
Sulphuric acid
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Which Irish writer of Gothic stories is known for the novels Uncle Silas and Carmilla?
(Joseph) Sheridan le Fanu
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Wade was the real surname of which music hall performer nicknamed The Prime Minister of Mirth who recorded staples such as If You Were the Only Girl (In The World)?
George Robey
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Passover and hence Seder are held during which first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year which falls within March and April in the Gregorian calendar?
Nisan
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Two designers share the record of four Academy Awards for Best Costume Designer by a living designer. One is which American designer who has won for films including Chicago Memoirs of a Geisha and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?
Colleen Atwood
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Which anarchist and former steel worker assassinated William McKinley in Buffalo New York in 1901?
Leon Czolgosz
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One of the Big Five global extinction events occurred some 375 million years ago in which geological period just before its transition into the Carboniferous period?
Devonian
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Premiering in 1876 who composed the music to the ballet Sylvia?
Léo Delibes
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Which mountain pass in the Alps linking Bolzano in Italy to Innsbruck in Austria is home to the Europe Bridge which carries the E45 motorway over the Sill River? Work is ongoing on a namesake base tunnel which will be the world's second-longest railway tunnel when completed.
Brenner Pass
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As well as Geraint Thomas and four-time winner Chris Froome who is the other Briton to have won the Tour de France doing so for Team Sky in 2012?
Bradley Wiggins
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The forename of which former British Foreign Secretary is also slang for a Third Class degree?
Douglas Hurd (prompt on Douglas)
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Which former Conservative MP for Broxtowe became one of a number of MPs to form The Independent Group in February 2019 partly driven by concern about Theresa May's approach to Brexit?
Anna Soubry
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Found in Africa and Asia which animal sometimes known as the desert lynx is not actually a member of the Lynx genus? The name of this cat means 'black ears' in Turkic languages.
Caracal
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Newman Noggs Charles and Ned Cheeryble and Wackford Squeers are characters in which novel by Charles Dickens?
Nicholas Nickleby
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Which comic book villain and enemy of Batman has been played on screen by Caesar Romero Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger?
The Joker
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Which female tennis player won her only Grand Slam singles title in 1967 taking her home event the French Open?
Francoise Durr
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In Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky what adjective is used to describe the wood through which the Jabberwock came whiffling?
Tulgey
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Often (unfairly) considered one of the worst songs of all time which US rock group recorded the 1985 original of We Built This City from the album Knee Deep in the Hoopla?
Starship
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Which country gives its name to one of the east African Great Lakes the ninth largest lake in the world and home to more species of fish than any other lake in the world?
Malawi
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Since the retirement of A.P. McCoy which jockey has won the National Hunt jockey's title every year since?
Richard Johnson
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The Fouveau Strait separates New Zealand's South Island from which other island?
Stewart Island
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Dying in 2018 which US evangelist wrote the book How To Be Born Again?
Billy Graham
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Which American astrophysicist has written works such as Death by Black Hole and has since 1996 been director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City? In late 2018 he was the subject of sexual misconduct allegations.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

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