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Question 1

Longest river in British Isles

Answer 1

River Shannon

Question 2

Greek canal connecting Ionian Sea (South of Adriatic) with Saronic Gulf

Answer 2

Corinth Canal (CORE-INTH)

Question 3

K2 (Mount Godwin-Austen) is in this range

Answer 3

Karakoram

Question 4

Mountains in Central Asia known as roof of the world

Answer 4

Pamir Mountains

Question 5

Interview with a Vampire author

Answer 5

Anne Rice

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Shakespeare in Love best actress (1999)

Answer 6

Shakespeare in Love

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2019 best actress The Favourite

Answer 7

Olivia Colman

Question 8

Second largest satellite in Solar System

Answer 8

Titan

Question 9

Third largest Japanese island

Answer 9

Kyushu

Question 10

Largest American airline

Answer 10

Delta

Question 11

Aphrodite kids (with Ares)

Answer 11

Phobos and Deimos

Question 11

Penicillin inventor

Answer 11

Fleming

Question 12

1860s Mexican president and national hero

Answer 12

Juarez

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Ovid’s tragedy about this enchantress who helped Jason with the Golden Fleece was praised in the poet’s day but is now lost

Answer 13

Medea

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Red and white in color dairy cow from Channel Islands

Answer 14

Guernsey cow

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Black and white cow; most common dairy

Answer 15

Holstein Friesian

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Most common beef cow

Answer 16

Black Angus cattle, also called Aberdeen Angus, are the most popular breed in the U.S.

Question 17

Brown and white beef

Answer 17

Hereford cow

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Father of History (5th century BC)

Answer 18

Herodotus

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Documented Pelloponesian Wars (Sparta won)

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Thucydides (5th c BC)

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Documented Pelloponesian Wars (Sparta won)

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Thucydides (5th c BC)

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wrote first biographies (4th c BC)

Answer 21

Xenophon

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wrote first histories in Latin

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Cato the Elder (200 BC)

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first to employ geography (wrote Geographica) in a history

Answer 23

Strabo (transitional era)

Question 24

Livy (early Rome)

Answer 24

wrote history of Rome

Question 25

Wrote “Agricola”, about Vespasian ordered invasion of Britain

Answer 25

Tacitus (150 AD)

Question 26

Wrote “Agricola”, about Vespasian ordered invasion of Britain

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Tacitus (150 AD)