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Knockaloe, the site of a major British internment camp for enemy alien civilians living in the UK during both world wars was established in which island off the coast of Britain?

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Isle of Man

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The Edgware Road in London lies along the route of which ancient Roman road?

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Watling Street

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In Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, whom does Figaro marry?

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Susannah

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The Central Lobby at the heart of the Palace of Westminster, the Globe Theatre erected around 1599 at London’s Bankside and the centrepiece observatory of Wren’s Flamstead House at Greenwich share what unusual architectural distinction?

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Octagonal

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Wild Life in Suburbia, an LP record released in 1959 consisting of the monologues of Edna and Sandy Stone, two philistine inhabitants of the Australian suburbs, is an early work by which humorist and writer?

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Barry Humphries

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What do the letters EM stand for in the name of EM Forster, the author of the novels A Passage to India and A Room With A View?

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Edward Morgan

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Stingray Bay was the original name of which location on the eastern coast of Australia?

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Botany Bay

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What is the name of the stiff, full, white skirt traditionally worn by men in Albania and parts of Greece?

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Fustanella

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The 2015 film Spotlight is about a real-life investigation conducted by the Boston Chronicle newspaper into what issue?

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Child abuse in the Catholic church

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Which beautiful youth of Greek legend provided the title of a poem by John Keats and also an 1880 novel by Benjamin Disraeli?

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Endymion

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What is the literal meaning of the Urdu word “halal”, often encountered in connection with Islam?

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Lawful

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Which chain of British comedy clubs takes its name from that of a type of medieval wandering minstrel?

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Jongleurs

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In 1724, as part of the Hanoverian programme to make the still potentially volatile Highlands easier to control, which field marshal and MP for Bath went there to supervise the construction of numerous bridges and metalled roads?

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George Wade

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Which two French terms are used to describe the seizures characteristic of both the severe and the less severe forms of epilepsy

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Grand Mal/Petit Mal

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The lamb is a symbol of which female saint, often placed at her side in religious paintings?

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Agnes of Rome

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Which American horse breed gets its name from its ability to outdistance other breeds of horses in races of 440 yards or less?

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Quarter Horse

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets, first published together as a sequence in 1609, comprise how many poems?

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154

18
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Still Crazy After All These Years, in 1976, and Fate For Breakfast, in 1979, are among the solo albums of which former singing duo?

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Simon and Garfunkel

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What title was first given to the chief minister of the Abbasid caliphs, subsequently to the chief minister of the Turkish sultan and later to those of other Muslim states?

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Vizier

20
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At a height of around 330 metres, Cleeve Cloud is the highest point in which English county?

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Gloucestershire

21
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Which crank-turned instrument, originally used to teach music in cloisters or monastic schools, can be referred to as a wheel fiddle or vielle a roue?

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Hurdy Gurdy

22
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Which novel by Robert Tressell, first published in an abridged form in 1918, has been called the Workers’ Bible and is often said to have provided inspiration for the early Labour movement and the establishment of the welfare state?

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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist

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The Queen has two Christian names apart from Elizabeth. What are they?

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Alexandra Mary

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Which cricket ground, named after the Hampshire fast bowler who leased the land on which its pitches were established in the 1840s, is used to stage home matches played by the students of Cambridge University?

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Fenner’s

25
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Astronomers have predicted that our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide in 4 billion years time with which other?

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M31 Andromeda

26
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Who was the first criminal to be name Public Enemy No 1 by the FBI?

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John Dillinger

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What was the subject of William Harvey’s 1628 treatise generally known as De Motu Cordis?

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Circulation of blood

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Which director, born into an aristocratic Italian family, is noted among other films for The Leopard in 1963 and Death in Venice in 1971?

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Luchino Visconti

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Which Arabic word for West denotes the region of North Africa that embraces Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and parts of Libya?

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Mahgreb

30
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In the most popular versions of the traditional rhyme, one magpie is for sorrow and two for joy. What do six magpies bring?

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Gold

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Much of Russia’s oil and gas is exported to the West via Ventspils, the largest port in which other European country?

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Latvia

32
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Which character created by Jules Verne has been played on film by Herbert Lom and James Mason?

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Captain Nemo

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Captain Hawdon, a retired military officer, does law-writing under the name of Nemo, in which novel by Charles Dickens?

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Bleak House

34
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How many acres are there in a square mile?

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640

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What phrase colloquially used to mean keep quiet derives from a Navy signal for all hands to turn in?

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Pipe down

36
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Which Connecticut businessman, a failed iron manufacturer, developed a process for the vulcanisation of rubber using sulphur under intense heat, and patented the method in 1844?

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Charles Goodyear

37
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Which is the largest of the Society Islands?

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Tahiti

38
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Which Welsh equestrian won individual European Championships in 1961, 1967 and 1969, bronze in 1960 an 1968 and was individual World Champion in 1970?

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David Broome

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What term describes the point at which a celestial object in orbit around the Earth, such as the Moon, makes its closest approach to Earth?

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Perigee

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In 1816, the French physician Dr RTE Laennec devised which medical instrument, its original form being a wooden or metal tube with expanded ends?

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Stethoscope

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