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1 Whose lecture series, The Chemical History of a Candle, was printed as a book in 1861?
2 Also known as the nutria or river rat, what semi-aquatic mammal is the largest British rodent?
3 Which Keats poem begins: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”?
4 The world’s tallest mosque, the Hassan II Mosque is in which city?
5 Which ballerina’s last words were: “Get my swan costume ready!”?
6 The Acme Thunderer is a bestselling make of which woodwind instrument?
7 Benjamin Waugh founded which children’s charity in 1889?
8 Kane’s Wrath (2008) is an expansion pack for Tiberium Wars, the third installment in which real-time strategy video game series?
9 Which Bolton comedian’s first volume of autobiography, The Sound of Laughter, sold 278,000 copies on its first day (including pre-orders)?
10 Which part of the brain derives its name from the Latin for ‘almond’?
11 W.H. Smith opened its first railway bookstall at which London station in 1848?
12 What was the monstrous offspring of Pasiphaë and a snow-white bull?
13 Valhalla is the largest impact crater on which moon of Jupiter, the most heavily cratered object in the Solar System?
14 Whose coffin was assigned the last ever Factory Records catalogue number FAC-501?
15 In 1927, which actress was sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex?
16 Which radioactive isotope of carbon was discovered by Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben in 1940?
17 In 1968, the Missourian oil tycoon Robert P. McCulloch bought which five-arched structure?
18 Held in the Czech city of Ostrava, what type of event is the Golden Spike?
19 Which French pair are the first swimmer-siblings to both win Olympic gold medals?
20 Which early computer is pictured?
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1 Formed in 1570, which foundry is Britain’s oldest manufacturing company?
2 Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer both created and star in which Comedy Central sitcom, premiered in 2014?
3 Which mammal is named from a Malay word meaning ‘something that rolls up’?
4 Which architect’s Marseille uníté d’habitation, an 18-floor vertical community, was completed in 1952?
5 Which book opens: “I come from Des Moines. Someone had to”?
6 The Hatfields fought which family in an infamous 19th century American feud?
7 “Mendips”, aka 251 Menlove Avenue, was the childhood home of which Beatle?
8 Which Serbian-American inventor discovered the rotating magnetic field (1882)?
9 First flown in 1935, the Junkers Ju87 dive-bomber had which nickname?
10 “Big Suze” in the sitcom Peep Show, the actress Sophie Winkleman married which Lord in 2009?
11 In yoga, the body has how many chakras (major energy centres)?
12 Nahum Tate gave which Shakespeare tragedy a happy ending in 1681?
13 Which man’s oldest surviving creation is Pierre the French Rat?
14 Which object was known in Gondorian lore as “Isildur’s Bane”?
15 419 scams are named for a clause in which country’s criminal code?
16 Georges Lemaître’s ‘hypothesis of the primeval atom’ is known by what modern name?
17 Whose 1,093rd patent was for a ‘Holder for Article to be Electroplated’ (1931)?
18 Fondly remembered for playing the Man U-crazed games teacher Mr. Sugden in the film Kes, which late actor wrestled as “Leon Arras, the Man from Paris”?
19 Who won the first ever Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year” title in 1954?
20 Which city is home to the pictured Nanpu Bridge?
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1 Which French painter’s first major work was The Barque of Dante (1822)?
2 Which theatre director was the first wife of musician Ewan MacColl?
3 The drug, rapamycin, was first discovered in which island’s soil?
4 Leonard Bernstein’s first symphony is named after which Biblical prophet?
5 Commissioned in 1963, what was Britain’s first nuclear-powered submarine?
6 Deposed in 1969, Idris was which country’s first and only king?
7 An ARP detachment leader, Thomas Alderson was the first recipient of which medal?
8 Bridget Bishop was the first woman to be tried and convicted at which 1692 trials?
9 What was first demonstrated at Merstham Quarry, Surrey, on July 14, 1867?
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