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  1. Which 5 cities beginning with the letter M have hosted the Summer Olympic Games since 1896?
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Melbourne, Mexico City, Munich, Montreal and Moscow

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In The Simpsons, who replaced Sideshow Bob?

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Sideshow Mel

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What James Bond film was the first not be based on an Ian Fleming novel or short story?
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Goldeneye

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Between them, the six wives of HenryVIII were of three different nationalities. English, Spanish and what other?

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German (Ann of Cleves)

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  1. In which film did Mel Gibson play a character who was frozen for 50 years?
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Forever Young`

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Deckard is the main character in what 1982 film?

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Blade Runner

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Who plays Dr Jekyll in the 1996 film Mary Reilly?

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John Malkovich

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Written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which poem starts with the line On either side of the river lie?

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The Lady of Shalott

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Mary Westmacott (Giant’s Bread)

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Agatha Christie

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Herge (The Adventures of Tin Tin)

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Georges Remi

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Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

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Go now : Nights in white satin : Isn’t life strange

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Moody Blues

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Something got me started : Fairground : Sunrise

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Simply Red

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Your town : Twist & shout : I’ll never fall in love again

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Deacon Blue

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Just the way you are : What am I gonna do with you : You’re the first, the last, my everything

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Barry White

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In 1845, the New York Knickerbockers became the first organised team to play which sport?

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Baseball

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Which country staged the first Olympic Games after World War II?

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England

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Charlotte Edwards led England`s women to World Cup glory in which sport in March 2009?

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Cricket

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A feathered shuttlecock contains how many feathers?

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16

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In which sport do people compete for the America`s Cup?

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Yachting

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How many points do you get for a field goal in American football?

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3

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At which sport do the team called the Minnesota Twins compete?

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Baseball

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How many times have the Olympic Games been cancelled due to war?

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Three

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What nationality is the racing driver Mikka Hakkinen?

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Finnish

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horseracing, what term is given to a horse that has not yet won a race?

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Maiden

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many players are there in a Handball team?

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7

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which sport did Johnny Weismuller, who played the character of Tarzan on screen, win 5 Olympic Gold medals?

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Swimming

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How many lanes are there in an Olympic sized swimming pool?

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8

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What is the diameter of a puck used in ice-hockey? 3 inches, 4 inches or 5 inches?

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3 inches

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What is the final event in a triathlon?

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The marathon

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31
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In which city were the 1980 Olympic Games held?

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Moscow

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In which city would you find the Happy Valley race course?

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Hong Kong

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Which synthetic fabric was first developed by Dupont in 1958 and is worn regularly in a variety of sports?

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Lycra

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FINA is the governing body of which sport?

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Swimming

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What sport do the New Jersey Devils and the Detroit Red Wings play?

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Ice Hockey

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Which Olympic sport needs a planting box?

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Pole Vault

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Which US city is home to sporting teams known as the Browns, the Cavaliers and the Indians?

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Cleveland (NFL, NBA and MLB teams)

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In inches how wide is the balance beam in Olympic gymnastics? 2, 4 or 6?

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4

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which sport is there a yorkround?

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Archery

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How many players are there in a hockey team?

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11

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How many players are in an ice-hockey team?

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6

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Which golf course hosts the US masters?

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Augusta

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43
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What sport involves stones and a house?

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Curling

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44
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In which four films did Humphrey Bogart and Lauran Bacall co-star?

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To have and have not, The big sleep, dark passage, Key largo

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Which four US Presidents died of natural causes while in office?

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William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G Harding, FD Roosevelt

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46
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Escalated Ditch

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Deadliest Catch

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47
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Feel Sixth

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The X files

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48
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Bad Boy Newton

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Downton Abbey

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Which U.S. music superstar missed a penalty kick during the opening ceremony festivities at the World Cup soccer finals in 1994?

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Diana Ross.

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50
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Macbeth belonged to which royal house or dynasty?

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House of Dunkeld

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51
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Where in Scotland was the famous Irish manuscript The Book Of Kells illuminated?

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Iona

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52
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What are the dry constituents of dry Martini?

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Gin and Vermouth

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53
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How many symphonies did Mozart compose?

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41

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54
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Who deposed Richard II in 1399?

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Henry (Bolingbroke) IV

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55
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In 2006 there were approximately how many pubs in the UK? 47,500, 57,500 or 67,500?

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57,500

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Who, in 1960, became the first woman Prime Minister in the world?

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Sirimavo Bandaranaike

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57
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A Taste Of My Life

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Raymond Blanc

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58
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What was the title of Jean-Paul Sartre’s first play?

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The Flies

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59
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What was Bedloe’s Island officially renamed to in 1956?

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Liberty Island

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60
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Who married Catharine von Bora, a former nun?

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Martin Luther

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The death of which Swedish king inspired an opera by Verdi?

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Gustavus III

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62
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How did Tollund Man die?

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Hanging, not strangulation

63
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The behaviour of dynamic systems, which renders long-term prediction almost impossible

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Chaos Theory

64
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Continuous deformations including stretching and bending, but not tearing or gluing.

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Topology

65
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Study of motion and forces producing motion.

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Mechanics

66
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In which film can you the Sulaco spacship

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Aliens

67
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In which film will you find Guild Transporters

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Dune

68
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In which film can you find the Oberon spaceship

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Planet of the Apes

69
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In which TV series will you find the Colonial Shuttle

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Battlestar Galactica

70
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Who were the two lead detectives in both the TV Series and the movie version of Miami Vice?

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Crockett & Tubbs

71
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Which TV show featured DS Jane Penhaligon?

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Cracker

72
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what was the last James Bond film to star Pierce Brosnan?

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Die Another Day

73
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Who stabbed Jean-Paul Marat in his bath in 1793, an act which has later been seen as patriotic?

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Charlotte Corday

74
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Which guerilla leader during the Irish War of Independence was assassinated in 1922?

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Micheal Collins

75
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Who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mrs Robinson in The Graduate?

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Anne Bancroft

76
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Who were the first two countries to declare war during ww1?

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Austria and Serbia

77
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Who wrote “You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye, who cheer when soldier lads march by. Sneak hom and pray you’ll never know, the hell where youth and laughter go”?

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Siegfried Sassoon “suicide in the trenches”

78
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.

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Mohammed Ali

79
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Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

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George W Bush

80
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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Mark Twain

81
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Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph.

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Adolf Hitler

82
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The 10 Events in a Decathlon?

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100 Metres,Long Jump,Shot Put,High Jump,400 Metres,110 Metre Hurdles,Discus,Pole Vault,Javelin,1500 Metres

83
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Jeff Albertson

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Comic book guy from the Simpsons.

84
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Patricia Reichardt

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Peppermint Patty from the Peanuts cartoons.

85
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Scrat

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The Sabre-toothed squirrel from Ice Age.

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Which actor, possibly best known for his portrayal of Clark Griswald, hosted the American Acadamy Awards Ceremony in both 1987 and 1988?

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Chevy Chase

87
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Who in the early 1960’s became known as the “King of The Twist”?

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Chubby Checker

88
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Which author who died in 1998 was the most borrowed author from British libraries for over twenty years?

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Catherine Cookson

89
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  1. Madrid West
  2. Honolulu East
  3. Cairo West
  4. Seoul East
  5. Glasgow East
  6. Lima North
  7. Brisbane East
  8. Rio de Janiero East
  9. Aukland North
  10. London East
    quiz submitted by Fraenulum
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  1. Portugal
  2. Mexico
  3. Libya
  4. Japan
  5. Denmark
  6. Ecuador
  7. Chile
  8. Namibia
  9. Russia
  10. Netherlands
90
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Napoleons horse that outlived him by 8 years

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Marengo

91
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Abyssinia is the former name of which country?

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Ethiopia

92
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Who was the first monarch of the House of Tudor?

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Henry VII

93
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Who played the title role in the movie Billy Elliot.

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Jamie Bell

94
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Wha was the first name of Polish ballet star Nijinski.

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Vaslav (1890s, male)

95
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What now stands on the site of the notorious Newgate prison?

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The Old Bailey

96
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Day in 1944 was the greatest sea-bourn invasion in history. What was the code name for the operation?

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Operation Overlord

97
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The greatest British naval victory in 1805 was off of which cape in Spain?

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Trafalgar

98
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Which ancient, fierce warrior nation, upon attacking ancient Israel, ‘…. came down like a wolf on the fold’?

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The Assyrians (from The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron)

99
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At which naval battle in WWII did the Americans decisively defeat the Japanese Carrier Task Force?

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Battle of Midway Atoll

100
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The bombardment of which fort was the act which started the American Civil War?

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Fort Sumpter

101
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Which WWI battle occurred on a peninsular south of Istanbul in Turkey?

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Gallipoli

102
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Which NBA basketball ‘bad boy’ was renowned for dying his hair bright colours.

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Dennis Rodman

103
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In 1982, who became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously?

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Sylvia Plath

104
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In which year did a terrorist group kill eleven hostages at the Olympic Games?

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1972, Munich

105
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Which 1946 film was an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s crime novel of the same name?

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The Big Sleep

106
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Which influential German philosopher wrote ‘Being and Time’?

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Martin Heidegger

107
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Which American society magazine merged into Vogue in 1936?

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Vanity Fair

108
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Which country is the largest producer of saffron?

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Iran

109
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Hansel und Gretel composer

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Engelbert Humperdinck

110
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Where would you find the Epiglottis?

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In the Mouth

111
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What are the first names of Michael Jackson’s parents?

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Joseph(Joe) and Catherine

112
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Balaclava

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Crimean War

113
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Java Sea

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World War II

114
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Jutland

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World War I

115
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Bunker Hill

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American War of Independence

116
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Brandy Station

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American Civil War

117
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Which Boxer was known as ‘The Brockton Blockbuster’

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Rocky Marciano

118
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Which olympic swimmer was known as ‘Eric the Eel’?

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Eric Moussambani

119
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Which former Tour De France winner was known as ‘The Cannibal’?

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Eddy Mercyx

120
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The Amazon flows through how many countries?

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7

121
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Which river originates in the Taurus Mountains, and flows through Syria and Iraq?

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Euphrates

122
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Which major river empties into the Gulf of Guinea?

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Niger

123
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Which river originates in China and empties in the South China Sea?

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The Mekong

124
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Which river originates in British Columbia, Canada, and empties into the Bering Sea

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The Yukon

125
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Actor, married 3 times, including Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright?

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Laurence Olivier

126
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Actor, married 4 times, including Lynn Frederick and Britt Ekland?

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Peter Sellers

127
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Actress, married 9 times, including Conrad Hilton and George Sanders?

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Zsa Zsa Gabor

128
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Actor, marries 8 times, including Jan Chamberlain and Ava Gardner?

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Mickey Rooney

129
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Who designed Madonna’s wedding dress for her marriage to Guy Ritchie?

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Stella McCartney

130
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Born in Gibraltar, which designer was named British Designer of the Year in 1987, 1994 and 1995?

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John Galliano

131
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What is the name of Vivienne Westwood’s clothes shop at 430 King’s Road where she sells her Anglomania label?

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World’s End

132
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Which Canadian model dated french goalkeeper Fabien Barthez and has appeared in the music videos for George Michael’s songs Freedom ‘90 and Too Funky?

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Linda Evangelista

133
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Meryl Streep’s character, Miranda, in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada was based on the editor-in-chief of which fashion magazine?

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Vogue

134
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In which country was designer Oscar de la Renta born?

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The Dominican Republic (Dominican American, died 2014)

135
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How many sheets of paper are there in one ream?

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500

136
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By what name is Reginald Dwight better known?

A

Elton John

137
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Which semi-precious stone was ground to make the pigment for ultramarine blue paint?

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Lapis Lazuli

138
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Prior to his death in 1976 what was John Wayne’s last film?

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The Shootist

139
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Which Indian tribe did Sitting Bull belong to?

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Sioux

140
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  1. In which territory, now US state, was the Battle of Little Bighorn fought?
A

Montana

141
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Known as “The Singing Cowboy” who had his biggest hit record with the original recording of “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”?

A

Gene Autry

142
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Who succeeded General Joseph Johnston as the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?

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Robert E Lee

143
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In which month does midsummer’s day occur?

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June

144
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  1. A youngberry is a cross between a dewberry and what else?
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A blackberry

145
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In which European country did red onions originate?

A

Italy

146
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In whch Robert Di Nero film would you hear the line “You Talking To Me”?

A

Taxi Driver

147
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Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callaghan attempted to clean up the streets of which US City?

A

San Francisco

148
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Dr Egon Spengler appears in which film?

A

Ghostbusters

149
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In which year was the film Casablanca premiered?

A

1942

150
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Comedian Steve Coogan provided the voice for which animal in the 1996 film Wind In The Willows?

A

Mr toad’s wild ride….Mole

151
Q

Who killed Jesse James?

A

Robert Ford

152
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  1. Who killed Jean Paul Marat?
A

Charlotte Corday

153
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The band T’Pau took their name from a character in which TV series?

A

Star Trek.

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