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Which psychological pioneer author of the ‘neurotic constitution’ emphasised the inferiority complex and superiority complex?

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Alfred Adler

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Which long running British series is called Banabi Keibu in Japan?

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Midsommer murders

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Who was the author of the book and later a famous television series of Sex and the City?

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Candance Bushnell

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What is the name of the opticians eye test chart, which decreases in size)

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Snellen Chart

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What is the name of the monosaccharide in Fruit

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Fructose

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Which author created the book series the Snowman, Father Christmas and Ethel and Ernest?

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Raymond Briggs

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Who dueted on the 1980 single suddenly with Cliff Richard?

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Olivia Newton John

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Which African capital city derived from the phrase new flower?

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Adis Ababa

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Which African capital derives its name from the Swahili for swamp?

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Nairobi

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What two-word nickname is given to flowers of the genus gypsophila, often used as filler in flower arrangements?

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Baby’s breath

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Which French luxury group owns the brands Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen?

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Kering

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was reported in 2021 that several schools had banned which fidget toys with pokable bubbles popularised by TikTok influencers?

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Pop’s

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Who invented the pocket calculator, which also led to the creation of the home computer?

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Charles Babbage

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Who was the English composer of the cantata Belshazzar’s Feast, the orchestral suite Façade, and the music for the 1944 film Henry V?

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William Walton

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Which journalist, while editor of The Economist, wrote the 1867 book The English Constitution, one of the most influential text books ever written on the subject?

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Walter Bageshot

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Brackley and Daventry are towns in which English county?

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Northamptonshire

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Mainly recruited from Christian slave boys, what was the name of the elite household infantry troops of the Ottoman empire from the 14th to 19th centuries?

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Janissaries

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Which American Psychologist is best known for his Hierarchy Of Needs theory?

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Abraham Maslow

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Which American Psychologist is best known for his Hierarchy Of Needs theory?

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Ergonomics

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The Fairbrass Brothers, Fred & Richard, were members of which band whose biggest hit was I‘m Too Sexy?

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Right said Fred

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Gariguette, elsanta and evie are all varieties of what fruit?

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Strawberries

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In the TV series Downton Abbey what is the family name of Sir Robert, Lady Cora and Lady Mary? It is a name shared with the town in West Sussex that is home to Gatwick Airport?

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Crawley

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n the 1760s, which French philosopher originated the aphorism: “If God did
not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him”?

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Voltaire

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Gariguette, elsanta and evie are all varieties of what fruit?

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Strawberries

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20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead is now a museum dedicated to which founder of psychoanalysis? He lived there during the last year of his life after escaping the Nazi annexation of Austria.

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Sigmund Freud

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What famous discovery was made in the Judaean Desert in 1947, when a Bedouin shepherd threw a rock into a cave, and found ancient Biblical manuscripts inside?

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Dead Sea scrolls

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The Southern Tree, Western Tree, Rock and Yellow-Spotted Rock are the 4 extant species of which mammal, which despite its small size is a close relative of elephants, manatees and dugongs?

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Hyrax

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Which head of state was depicted crossing the Delaware in a painting by Emanuel Leutze, at Trenton in a painting by John Trumbull, and in the Lansdowne Portrait by Gilbert Stuart?

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George Washington

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In which Antipodean city is Eden Park, a venue for the Rugby Union World Cups of both 1987 and 2011?

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Auckland

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Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and Will o’ the Wisp based on a Manuel de Falla ballet score are jazz reinterpretations of classical music pieces on which 1960 Miles Davis album?

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Sketches of Spain

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Scott Thompson is the real name of which ginger haired prop-based comedian who has been a resident act at the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas since 2005?

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Carrot Top

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Which 1994 album by the band James shares its name with a distortion pedal for an electric guitar and the first song recorded for George Harrison’s debut album All Things Must Pass?

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Wah Wah

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What is the second largest city in Paraguay? Its name literally translates as the City of the East and it is situated near the Brazilian border?

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Ciudad del Este

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In quantum mechanics, which phenomenon occurs when pairs (or groups) of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the quantum state of the other particles?

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Quantum Entanglement accept Coupling

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he hand woven woollen tweed produced in the Outer Hebrides that has an orb trade mark and is protected by a 1993 Act of Parliament is named after which specific part of the Hebrides?

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Harris

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Which soul singer, who died in 2018, memorably sang My Country Tis Of Thee at President Obama’s Inauguration, and in 1987 she became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame?

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Aretha Franklin

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What is the name of the series of novels for young adults, written by Meg Cabot, whose central protagonist Mia has the full name Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo?

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The Princess Diaries

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Which Italian club were the first team to win the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup beating Rangers 4-1 in the final over two legs in 1961?

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Fiorentina

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The poem Ode To Joy by Friedrich Schiller, features in which Beethoven symphony, his last?

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9th symphony or Choral

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What type of bird was Big Eggo, the first cover star of The Beano, whose name aptly reflects the fact that this species lays the largest egg of any living bird?

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Ostrich

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In 2015 which dog became the second animal to win Britain’s Got Talent? It shares its name with a French Fauvist painter.

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Matisse

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Who was the first King of the Franks, he was the son of Childeric the First and founder of the Merovingian Dynasty?

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Clovis

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What name is given to the tax which is levied on the profit of UK companies? It is the fourth largest source of government income.

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Corporation tax

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Which chemical element, with atomic number 104, is named after the New Zealand physicist who was known as the father of nuclear physics?

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Rutherfordium

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Which type of Scottish bonnet or hat was named after the title character of a 1791 poem by Robert Burns?

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Tam O’Shanter

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What name is given to the science of measuring bodily characteristics, especially as a way of using these measurements as an aid to identification of individuals?

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Biometrics or Anthropometry or Bertillonage

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What is the second largest city in Uruguay? Its name is a term used in for a flip or tumble in gymnastics, derived from a Latin word meaning leap and it is situated near the Argentinian border

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Salto

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Which Italian club were the last team to win the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup when they beat Mallorca 2-1 in 1999?

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Lazio

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The Greek hero Odysseus was known to the Romans by what name, which inspired a famous work by James Joyce?

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Ulysses

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Which speech disorder is also the name of the 1986 debut album by Manchester band James and part of the title of Morris Minor & The Majors’ only UK hit single?

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Stutter

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Which King of the Franks was the father of Pepin the Short and
grandfather of Charlemagne?

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Martel

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What name is to the tax which is paid by workers and employers to fund state payments on health and social security benefits? It is the 2nd largest source of government income.

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National insurance

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Which much loved boxer, born in Hammersmith, won the world heavyweight championship in 1995, but had four unsuccessful challenges for the world title, including two fights against Mike Tyson?

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Frank Bruno

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Which much loved boxer, born in Hammersmith, won the world heavyweight championship in 1995, but had four unsuccessful challenges for the world title, including two fights against Mike Tyson?

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Frank Bruno

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In 2012, the first dog to win Britain’s Got Talent was named after which West Yorkshire market town standing approximately halfway between the centres of Leeds and Bradford?

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Pudsey

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The Mountain, Kabomani, the Brazilian and Baird’s, all found in Central and South America, and the Malayan, are the 5 extant species of which mammal, the closest living relatives of rhinoceroses?

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Tapir

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The longest and last symphony composed by Mozart, Symphony No. 41 in C major, is nicknamed after which planet?

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Jupiter

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Which actor died in 2018 and received his only Oscar nomination for playing porn producer Jack Horner in Boogie Nights?

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Burt Reynolds

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Which actress published her memoir The Princess Diarist in 2016 and died later the same year?

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Carrie Fisher

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A judge on the show American’s Got Talent and the host of the American version of Deal Or No Deal, which comedian and actor has since 2007 performed a comedy and variety show at the MGM Casino in Las Vegas?

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Howie Mandel

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his 1881 work The Gay Science, which German philosopher said: “God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.”?

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Nietzsche

62
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Twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid perform as a duo under what name? Their best known hit is I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)?

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The Proclaimers

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n 1974, what famous archaeological discovery was made by a group of Chinese farmers digging a well in modern-day Shaanxi Province? The find had been buried with Quin (pronounced Chin) Shi Huang, the first Chinese Emperor around 210 BCE.

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Terracota Army

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Beluga, pardina and castillo are all varieties of what edible seeds which are a dietary staple in Asia?

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Lentils

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In quantum mechanics, which principle is that any two (or more) quantum states can be added together and the result will be another valid quantum state; and conversely, that every quantum state can be represented as a sum of two or more other distinct states?

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Superposition

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1998, Washington National Airport was renamed to honour which man, the 40th President of the US?

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Ronald Reagan

67
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In which Asian city is Eden Gardens, a venue for the Cricket World Cups of both 1987 and 2011

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Kolkata

68
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Blue Rondo à la Turk and Take Five are jazz numbers performed and arranged by Dave Brubeck on which 1959 seminal album?

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Time Out

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Appearing in The Beano in the late 1950s and early 1960s, which sailor, who would accidentally sink every ship he sailed on, shares his name with a Biblical prophet who also had misfortunes at sea?

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Jonah

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Which Austrian medical doctor and psychotherapist introduced the concept of Inferiority Complex?

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Alfred Adler

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36 Craven Street in Westminster is now a museum dedicated to which Founding Father of the United States who lived there on and off from 1757 to 1775? He was a printer, a postmaster and inventor and left the house to negotiate the Treaty of Paris for the United States.

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Thomas Jefferson

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Which chemical element, with atomic number 100, is named after the Italian physicist who built the first nuclear reactor?

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Fermium

73
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A musket ball fired from the French ship Redoubtable reportedly killed which famous English naval commander?

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Lord Nelson

74
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Which is the only US state whose highest recorded temperature is below
100 degrees Fahrenheit?

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Hawaii

75
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What mythical winged equine creature gives its name to the road crossing where special consideration is given to horse riders?

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Pegasus Crossing

76
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Who is the most successful member of the spice girls, including solo number ones?

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Mel C

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In which English county are the towns of March and Chatteris?

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Cambridgeshire

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What is the common name of the botanical group Pteridophyta, which reproduces via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers?

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Ferns

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