which office device in 1936?
14 Who was shot by Fanny Kaplan on August 30, 1918?
15 Telegonus was the youngest son of Circe and which mythical hero?
16 Which traditional Thai greeting gesture is similar to the Indian namaste?
17 The national fruit of Bangladesh, what is the world’s largest tree-borne fruit?
18 Who was the first African American winner of a Grand Slam tennis title?
19 What was the last football club outside of the Old Firm to win a Scottish league title?
20 Name the British band –
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1 Which eye infection is also known as granular conjunctivitis and Egyptian ophthalmia?
2 Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, which 2014 film has been called “the first Iranian vampire Western”?
3 Which Jane Austen heroine is introduced as “handsome, clever, and rich”?
4 Which astronomer coined the term “Big Bang” on BBC radio in 1949?
5 Which US band originally released the single Dancing in the Moonlight in 1972?
6 Bob Slattery composed which fragrance for Calvin Klein in 1985?
7 Cordwainer is an archaic term for which job?
8 Which Anglo-Saxon king succeeded Hardicanute in 1042?
9 Which German mathematician illustrated the problems of treating infinity as a number with his “Infinite Hotel”?
10 The lantern that Guy Fawkes carried on his arrest is in which museum?
11 The Senyera is the flag of which Autonomous Community?
12 Who performed the song Get Happy in her last MGM film, Summer Stock (1950)?
13 What is the SI unit of mass?
14 The holder of which American political office resides at Gracie Mansion?
15 Shirley Conran said “Life is too short to…” do what?
16 Who was the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine?
17 What has been discovered to be the only known truly warm-blooded fish?
18 Graham Hill is the only driver to have completed which triple crown of motor sport?
19 Shotokan is the most widely practiced style of which martial art?
20 Name the pictured great ape –
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1 Which longest-serving prime minister of Australia founded the Liberal Party?
2 Why didn’t the Queen open the 1959 and 1963 sessions of Parliament?
3 Which Labour politician entered Parliament in 1945 as MP for Ormskirk?
4 After losing his seat in 1918, which future prime minister returned to the Commons as MP for Aberavon in 1922?
5 Labour Party leader Dom Mintoff was a two-time Prime Minister of which country?
6 Until Margaret Thatcher, who was the 20th century’s longest continuously serving prime minister?
7 In 1945, which MP for Jarrow was appointed the first female Minister for Education?
8 Located in rue de Varenne in Paris, what is the official residence of France’s prime minister?
9 Which Tory foreign secretary was MP for Witney from 1983 until 1997?
10 Winner of the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize, who was Britain’s first Labour cabinet minister?
11 Jessica Gunning played which future MP for Swansea East in the 2014 film Pride?
12 In 1916, who was reelected US president on the slogan: “He kept us out of the war”?
13 Which city is home to Chile’s bicameral parliament, the National Congress?
14 Assassinated in 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was which country’s founding leader?
15 The holder of which political office resides at 24 Sussex Drive?
16 Which president was described by Gore Vidal as “a triumph of the embalmer’s art”?
17 Which prime minister wrote in The Times under the pseudonym Runnymede?
18 Who did US President Franklin Roosevelt tell: “We need muscles like yours to beat Germany”?
19 Which 1976 110m hurdles Olympic champion became France’s Minister of Youth and Sport in 1995?
20 Name the pictured Labour Chancellor –
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1 The actress Valerie Hobson was married to which disgraced Tory politician?
2 The song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah features in which controversial 1946 Disney film?
3 Which unit of length is named from the Latin for ‘elbow’?
4 Jean Prouvost founded which weekly news-driven French magazine in 1949?
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