What is the world’s longest man-made waterway?
2 Where are the UK Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia?
3 Which city-state is 0.44 square kilometres in area?
4 The Gettysburg Battlefield is in which US state?
5 Which country comes first in an alphabetical list of the Commonwealth nations?
6 Which Pakistani city was known as Lyallpur until 1979?
7 North Ronaldsay is the northernmost inhabited island in which group?
8 Which country has the largest proven oil reserves in Africa?
9 Which lake has the largest volume of freshwater in Great Britain?
10 The Ilz and the Inn enter which river at the Bavarian city of Passau?
11 Famously photographed by Ansel Adams, Half Dome is perhaps the most recognised landmark of which national park?
12 Located on the River Alun, what is Britain’s smallest city by size and population?
13 Which mountain’s north wall has the German nickname Mordwand (‘murder wall’)?
14 The USA’s only military base in Africa, Camp Lemonnier, is in which country?
15 What is the most populous US city to have been founded in the 20th century?
16 Which Caribbean nation is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere?
17 The largest earthquake recorded in the 20th century hit which country in May 1960?
18 The world’s largest flower market is in which Dutch town?
19 Which prison island was named by Juan Manuel de Ayala after the pelicans that roosted there?
20 Name the pictured French mountain –
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1 Slaked lime is the traditional name of which inorganic compound?
2 The 2013 film The Look of Love told the story of which “King of Soho”?
3 In 1906, which Fauve painted Charing Cross Bridge, London and The Pool of London?
4 Which Doctor Who character was born Melody Pond?
5 Which philosopher gives his name to the paradox that states “All Cretans are liars”?
6 Bob Jackson took a picture of the moment when which assassin was assassinated?
7 Who was Margaret Thatcher’s longest-serving Cabinet minister?
8 Which company makes the Trent family of aircraft engines?
9 Which late rock musician is the subject of the 2015 documentary Montage of Heck?
10 Which girl group was founded by choreographer Robin Antin as a burlesque troupe in 1995?
11 Which King of England was murdered in Corfe Castle, Dorset, in 978?
12 The self-confessed “chauvinist” Sir Tim Hunt won which Nobel prize in 2001?
13 Popular in Central Asia, Chal or Shubat is a beverage of what fermented milk?
14 In which animated TV series is Princess Bubblegum monarch of the Candy Kingdom?
15 Which subject is studied by the title character in Willy Russell’s play Educating Rita?
16 Malia and Sitia are resorts on which Mediterranean island?
17 Which playing card is nicknamed the “Curse of Scotland”?
18 What is the world’s oldest endurance sports car race?
19 Who scored twice in Great Britain’s 1988 Olympic men’s hockey 3–1 final defeat of West Germany?
20 Name the pictured Philadelphia building?
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1 The confection Lokum is known by what name in the West?
2 Which Hans Christian Andersen title character slept in a walnut shell?
3 Rising to 3415m, Emi Koussi is the highest summit in which desert?
4 Which “very friendly lion” featured in the children’s TV show The Herbs?
5 Cyril Kenneth Bird (1887–1965) was the real name of which Punch cartoonist, the only one to become the magazine’s editor?
6 Friedrich Fröbel pioneered what concept in the preschool education?
7 Who modelled Beatrice Portinari in the c.1864–70 painting Beata Beatrix after his late wife, Elizabeth Siddal?
8 Victoria amazonica is the largest species in the Nymphaeaceae family of which flowering plants?
9 What does the Latin saying “homo homini lupus” mean?
10 What were deciphered by Jean-François Champollion in the early 19th century?
11 King George II was the last monarch to reside at which palace?
12 Potiphar’s wife attempted to seduce which Old Testament prophet?
13 What are Hungarian, Pencil, Fu Manchu and Walrus types of?
14 Which wife of Michael Frayn has written biographies of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys and Thomas Hardy?
15 In 1937, the mosquito-borne West Nile virus was first isolated in the West Nile district of which country?
16 In 1947, Maurice Wilks tested a prototype for which off-road utility vehicle in fields at Red Wharf Bay on Anglesey?
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