Corp. is known by which one-word name?
18 Umberto Granaglia (1931–2008) won 13 World titles in which ball game?
19 Which Spaniard was quoted as saying ‘Grass is just for cows” then went on to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title in 1966?
20 Name the big cat from the image –
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1 What was the first comet whose return was predicted?
2 Which mosquito-borne tropical disease is also known as breakbone fever?
3 The Wong-Baker FACES Scale is used to help children communicate what?
4 The Vermilion border defines which part of the face?
5 Which unit of time is one quintillionth of a second?
6 Hypokalaemia is a deficiency of which alkali metal in the blood?
7 Also known as occupational asthenopia, what is CVS?
8 Sapphire is a variety of which aluminium oxide mineral?
9 Used in demonstrations of tabletop “volcanoes”, which compound is sometimes called “Vesuvian Fire”?
10 In 1957, the “Traitorous Eight” quit the Semiconductor Laboratory named after which Nobel laureate?
11 The spiral of Theodorus or Einstein spiral is composed of contiguous what?
12 Which flavour of quark is the heaviest subatomic particle ever observed?
13 Which allotrope of oxygen is measured in Dobson units?
14 Putting clocks on commercial jet flights, the 1971 Hafele-Keating experiment tested which theory in physics?
15 Which Swedish chemist is credited with identifying selenium, thorium and cerium?
16 David Hilbert said of which German mathematician: “No one shall expel us from the Paradise that [he] has created”?
17 In 1838, what did Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden propose as the basic functional unit of all living things?
18 What does haptic technology recreate?
19 Which American futurist is the author of Physics of the Impossible (2008) and Physics of the Future (2011)?
20 Name the double Nobel Prize-winner in the image –
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1 In 1974, which shoe designer became the first man to appear on the cover of British Vogue?
2 Which Bollywood film, about a radio exec (played by Shah Rukh Khan) falling in love with a suicide bomber, features the A.R. Rahman song Chaiyya Chaiyya?
3 Which German-born French composer wrote the 1867 operetta Robinson Crusoé?
4 Which car manufacturer’s business was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922?
5 Dr. James Sheppard commits the eponymous crime in which Agatha Christie novel?
6 In 2002, Whenever, Wherever became which Colombian singer’s first UK hit?
7 Trepanging, a term derived from Indonesian, is the harvesting of which sea creatures?
8 In 1977, which German invented the “Plastination” method for preserving anatomical specimens?
9 Ratiocination is the process of what?
10 Which French writer (1913–2005) created the retired British officer Major W. Marmaduke Thompson?
11 Michael Ramsey was the 100th man appointed to which office?
12 Which infamous MP became the last ever Postmaster General in 1968?
13 Which TV detective was bossed around by “Horn-rimmed Harry” aka Superintendent Norman Mullett?
14 The word “Pinoy” is used to describe people from which Asian country?
15 The Copley Medal is given every year for “outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science” by which body?
16 Known by the Latin name Falco rusticolus, what is the world’s largest falcon?
17 New Zealand’s Nigel Richards is regarded as which board game’s greatest player?
18 Which rugby union position is called Losskakel in Afrikaans?
19 The 1976 men’s decathlon Olympic champion is now known by what name?
20 Name the former church in the picture –
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1 Will Kane is the marshal of Hadleyville forced to stand alone against Frank Miller and his gang in which Western?
2 Which US band released the 1982 song Bad to the Bone?
3 Which infectious disease is also known as “infantile paralysis”?
4 Eric Fenby became the amanuensis of which blind composer in 1928?
5 Which Biblical king was “a mighty hunter before the Lord”?
6 Which ancient Greek city-state lay on the right bank of the Eurotas River?
7 Which SI derived unit of work or energy is named after an English physicist?
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