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Оглавление1 Which painter killed Ranuccio Tomassoni in a brawl following a tennis game?
2 On hearing Handel’s ‘Hallelujah Chorus’, who reputedly said: “He is the master of us all”?
3 Let Them Talk was which British actor’s debut blues album?
4 A deipnosophist excels in conversations that take place where?
5 The architect Frank Matcham (1854–1920) famously designed which buildings?
6 Who wrote the 1963 report “The Reshaping of British Railways”?
7 Which soap opera is Godfrey Baseley’s most famous creation?
8 Brunei is entirely surrounded by which Malaysian state?
9 Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th man to hold which title?
10 Who did Hartley Booth succeed as MP for Finchley in 1992?
11 Who was US President when the British set fire to the White House in the War of 1812?
12 Which 1984 novel centres on Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius?
13 What was the nickname of the metal-eating French entertainer Michel Lotito?
14 Dating back to 2000 BC, the Swastika Stone sits on the edge of which Yorkshire moor?
15 Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier was the first person to be executed using which device?
16 Mae Questel last voiced Betty Boop in which 1988 film?
17 Newstead Abbey was the ancestral home of which poet, who died in 1824?
18 What is the smallest metropolitan area in the US to host a major professional sports franchise?
19 Which Irish jockey won the 1986 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Dancing Brave?
20 Name the pictured music group –
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