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1
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Alexei Leonev was the first man, and Edward H White the first American, to do what?

A

Spacewalk

2
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Which two actors played the Likely Lads, Terry and Bob, in the BBC TV sitcoms of the 1960s and 1970s?

A

Rodney Bewes, James Bolam

3
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Only one whole square number under 100 is the sum of the preceding two square numbers. Which?

A

25

4
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Which small tool, used for boring holes, shares its name with a cocktail containing lime juice and either gin or vodka?

A

Gimlet

5
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In Scandinavian mythology, Urd, Verdandi and Skuld were three giant goddesses who presided over the fates of both men and gods. How were they collectively known?

A

The Norns

6
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Although usually known for her roles in musical extravaganzas, which actress won her only Best Actress Oscar for her dramatic role in the film Kitty Foyle in 1940?

A

Ginger Rogers

7
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The art movement exemplified by 20th century Dutch artists such as Piet Mondrian, Gerrit Rietveld and Theo van Doesberg is often known by what Dutch name?

A

De Stijl

8
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Firzan, meaning counsellor, was the original Arabic name for which chess piece?

A

Queen

9
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In October 2008 the first UN sanctioned auction for nearly ten years took place in Southern Africa of which substance?

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Ivory

10
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The serial killer Patrick Bateman is the narrator of which controversial and globally successful novel of 1991?

A

American Psycho

11
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Which soft felt hat with a low crown and wide brim, supposedly derives its name, in a punning way, from the fact that it doesn’t have a nap?

A

Wideawake

12
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Including the innermost, how many rings are there in a standard archery target?

A

10

13
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In the 1975 ITV dramatisation of The Naked Civil Servant, which actor played Quentin Crisp?

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John Hurt

14
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The Big Three meeting at Yalta in the Crimea in February 1945 between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, was the second conference between these three wartime leaders. Which Middle Eastern city hosted their first meeting in 1943?

A

Tehran

15
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The former John Street, in Hampstead in London, was renamed to reflect the street’s association with which major poet who lived there between 1818 and 1820?

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John Keats

16
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Blaisdon Red, Early Laxton and Rivers’ Early Prolific are varieties of which fruit?

A

Plum

17
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What did the initials of the writer PG Wodehouse stand for?

A

Pelham Grenville

18
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Which Scottish border town gives its name to a regiment first mustered in 1650, which is the oldest corps by continuous existence in the British Army?

A

Coldstream Guards

19
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To which great French cinema director did Steven Spielberg give a bit-part as a UFO expert in the 1977 science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

A

Francoise Truffaut

20
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Which English noun can mean both conscientious and industrious attention to a task, and a type of stagecoach?

A

Diligence

21
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In towns up and down the British Isles there are thoroughfares and squares with the street name The Butts. Traditionally, this indicates that which activity went on there?

A

Archery training

22
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In the opening chapters of which of Charles Dickens novels is the corpse of a man named John Harmon found floating in the Thames in an advanced state of decay and much injured?

A

Our Mutual Friend

23
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Can you name the method of music education developed in the early 20th century by Emile Jacques Dalcroze, which uses movement to help the appreciation of music and which gives its name to a pop group many decades later?

A

Eurhythmics

24
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In botany, what defines a leaf, flower or fruit described as sessile?

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Grows from the stem

25
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The so-called Black Box, the unit containing an aeroplane’s flight and voice recorders is usually painted what colour?

A

Orange

26
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What’s the family relationship between the writer of the screenplay of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the writer of the recipe book Voluptuous Delights, published in 2008?

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Grandfather and Granddaughter

27
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The Great White Hope, a 1970 film which starred James Earl Jones as a black boxer hounded for his relationship with a white woman, was based on the life of which real heavyweight champion?

A

Jack Johnson

28
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What is the design on the jersey in the Tour de France which is given to the rider designated The King Of The Mountains?

A

Polka dots

29
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Which state of the USA is the setting for Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird?

A

Alabama

30
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What is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet?

A

Bet

31
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Reclaimed by India by military force, fifty years ago in December 1961, the state of Goa was previously an enclave governed by which European country?

A

Portugal

32
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Which cocktail, made with white rum, lime juice and sugar syrup takes its name from a beach resort near Santiago on the south coast of Cuba?

A

Dacquiri

33
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With a capacity of 150,000, the Rungrado May Day Stadium is reputedly the largest sporting venue in the world, and is situated in which East Asian country?

A

North Korea

34
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According to Daniel Defoe’s Tour of the Whole Island of Great Britain, which town in County Durham contains “nothing remarkable but dirt”?

A

Darlington

35
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According to How To Be An Alien by the Hungarian born writer George Mikes, “Continental people have sex lives, the English have…” - what?

A

Hot water bottles

36
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From 1821, Liberia was established by American interests as an African colony for freed slaves. Which African country was settled by the British for a similar purpose?

A

Sierra Leone

37
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The writer and socialite Anne-Louise Germaine Necker, born in 1766, became one of the most celebrated figures in Paris before the French revolution. Diplomats, writers, philosophers and even the Duke of Wellington fell under her spell. By what name does posterity remember her?

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Madame de Stael

38
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Of which Lerner and Loewe musical did Noel Coward say “It’s about as long as Parsifal and not as funny”?

A

Camelot

39
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In a famous speech to the US congress in January 1941, FDR outlined four basic freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want - and which other?

A

Freedom from fear

40
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What form of food poisoning gets its name from the Latin for a sausage?

A

Botulism