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What are parentheses otherwise known as?
What type of animal is a caribou?
Who wrote the novel Gulliver's Travels?
What Age followed the Bronze Age?
What is the third sign of the Zodiac?
Who composed The Planets suite?
How many bones are in the human skull?
Who was the first boxer to beat Muhammed Ali as a professional?
What is the collective name for a group of peacocks?
In Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun and fell to his
death when his wax wings melted?
What type of structure is a campanile?
How many strings are on a viola?
What does ASLEF stand for?
What is the second highest mountain in the world?
Which rock band played the first ever concert at London's Roundhouse
(in 1966)?
What does an onomast study?
In which country is the site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Who was the first person in space?
Vulpine relates to which animals?
Which song did Sting sing first at Live Aid in 1985?
What were the code-names of the five D-Day Landing beaches?
A nebuchadnezzar of wine holds the equivalent of how many bottles?
What colour is the mineral malachite?
Who led the first circumnavigation of the world?
Jeera is the Indian name for which spice?
What is the name of the parliament of the Isle of Man?
What is the top or bottom supporting post of a stair-rail called?
Which actor is the voice of Stan's gay dog Sparky in the TV cartoon
South Park?
The density of which substance is measured by a lactometer?
What is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet?
Whose autobiography is titled The Good The Bad and the Bubbly?
Epilation is the removal of what?
In which country is the region of Dalmatia?
Which cosmetics and perfume company was originally named The
California Perfume Co?
What is the inscription on the doorstep of the Saatchi and Saatchi
offices in London?
How many member countries of the British Commonwealth are there (as
at 2006)?
Wedgewood Potteries' Queensware was named in honour of which queen?
What is the world's fastest growing plant?
How many eyes does a spider have?
What is belladonna commonly known as?
In anatomy what is the outer layer of the skin called?
Which 1984 horror film is subtitled 'The Final Chapter'?
What are fino, oloroso and amontillado types of?
Which Egyptian president was shot and killed in 1981?
The Birth of Venus is a work by which artist?
Marsh Gas is another name for what gas?
In which year was the first telegram sent in the UK?
Which actor was born Bernard Schwartz in 1925?
What is the name of the official residence of the Lord Mayor of
London?
What was Jim Reeves' only UK No1 hit?
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