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Оглавление1 According to legend, which Italian city was founded at 12 o’clock noon on March 25, 421 AD?
2 The 2015 Spike Lee film Chi-Raq is based on which play by Aristophanes?
3 Which chain of “Mexican Grill” restaurants was launched by Steve Ells in Denver in 1993?
4 Which US president’s New York City memorial is the largest mausoleum in North America?
5 The naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, called which animal the “proudest conquest of Man”?
6 In which country is Europe’s highest peak, Mount Elbrus?
7 Aged 22, who became conductor of the attendants’ band at Worcester and County Lunatic Asylum in Powick in 1879?
8 What is the oldest of the natural sciences?
9 Marillenschnaps is an Austrian brandy made from which fruit?
10 First performed in 1978, Talent was the first play by which English comedienne?
11 Peercoin, Monero, Ethereum, Nxt, Ripple and DigitalNote are types of what?
12 Which portrait of Shakespeare was the first painting to enter the National Portrait Gallery’s collection?
13 Launched in 1963 by Hoffmann-La Roche, what was the pharmaceutical industry’s first billion dollar drug?
14 Who is the director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
15 Founded in 2014, which Spanish political party is led by Pablo Iglesias?
16 The name of which fashion brand, formed in Aosta in 1987, is a variation of the Finnish word for the Arctic Circle?
17 Which US game designer created Magic: The Gathering, the first modern trading card game?
18 A two-time French Open singles winner, which retired German tennis star married Barbara Hutton in 1955?
19 Who won a record ninth Stanley Cup as head coach with the Detroit Red Wings in 2002?
20 Name the pictured dog breed –
