gardening charity”?
18 The great racing greyhound Mick The Miller was born in which country?
19 Nicknamed ‘The Fighting Marine’, which US heavyweight boxer starred in the 1926 film The Fighting Marine?
20 Who is this British inventor?
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1 Which “Gateway to the West” is the largest city in the state of Nebraska?
2 Which company released the motion picture film format, Super 8, in 1965?
3 Robert De Niro learned to play the saxophone for which 1977 film?
4 The last US president born as a British subject, who was the first president to die in office?
5 John Schnatter is the eponymous founder of which delivery pizza chain?
6 Which US songwriter had his right leg amputated in 1958, a consequence of a 1937 riding accident?
7 Which US psychologist proposed a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation?
8 Who is the US composer of a 1933 overture to The School for Scandal and the 1958 opera Vanessa?
9 Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos is the real name of which American magician and illusionist (b.1967)?
10 Who has hosted the TV series Inside the Actors Studio since its debut in 1994?
11 The Shure 55H Series II is known as ‘The legendary “Elvis-…”’ what?
12 Calling itself the “Geographical Center of North America”, Rugby is a town in which state?
13 The Gibbs-Coolidge paintings are the only surviving complete set of which portraits?
14 Which TV miniseries centred on the Marines, Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone?
15 The dry goods store A. Schwab is the only original business remaining on which Memphis street?
16 Using the stereolithography process, Chuck Hull of 3D Systems designed the first working what?
17 Which American (1908–91) is the only two-time winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics?
18 Which NFL franchise is the only not-for-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the US?
19 Nicknamed “The Thumper”, which Boston Red Sox legend had a career batting average of .344?
20 Which US ballet dancer is pictured?
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1 The oldest of the group, which Impressionist painted The Avenue, Sydenham (1871) and Bath Road, Chiswick (1897)?
2 Founded by Lei Jun, which low-cost smartphone maker is named after the Chinese word for millet?
3 The French singer and actor Claude Moine (b.1942) is known by what stage name?
4 My Brilliant Friend (2011) is the first of four “Neapolitan Novels” by which Italian author?
5 Who wrote On Floating Bodies, the first known work on hydrostatics?
6 The triangular Nishan Sahib flag marks which places of worship?
7 Who opened his first restaurant, The Soup Kitchen, with Ivan Storey, in 1953?
8 Who dedicated the Simple Symphony (1934) to his childhood viola teacher Audrey Alston?
9 P.T. Barnum paid $10,000 to the Royal Zoological Society for which elephant?
10 Which musical features the songs When I Grow Up, Naughty and Revolting Children?
11 What is the simplest, lightest and most common chemical element?
12 On July 28, 1945, William F. Smith Jr. crashed his B-25 Mitchell bomber where?
13 Painter’s colic is intense intestinal pain caused by which metal poisoning?
14 Legend has it that which drink was named in honour of the priest Marco d’Aviano’s order?
15 The Olympic Australis is the largest example of which gemstone ever found?
16 “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die” is a quote from which film?
17 The first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, who took the 1927 photo Nautilus?
18 Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge was the first permanent commercial site for which activity?
19 Which Australian was the first woman swimmer to win gold at three consecutive Olympic Games?
20 Who designed the chapel in the picture?
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1 Who played Father Dougal in the sitcom Father Ted?
2 From 1987 to 2010, who served as MP for Banff & Buchan?
3 What is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth?
4 In Saudi Arabia, what would a man do with a thawb?
5 Which composer wrote the Children’s Corner piano suite (1908) for his daughter, nicknamed “Chouchou”?