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Оглавление1 What links Moss in The I.T. Crowd, Harold Macmillan and an E.M. Forster novel title?
2 Which Poet Laureate wrote the play Epsom Wells (1672)?
3 How was the 1st Marchioness of Pembroke (1504–1536) better known?
4 Which scientist was Time magazine’s “Person of the [20th] Century”?
5 Which game bird is scientifically known as Coturnix coturnix?
6 Who succeeded the assassinated US president James Garfield?
7 What is the longest British river at 219 miles long?
8 The New Mexico town Hot Springs renamed itself after which radio show?
9 What online retailer was originally called Cadabra.com?
10 Manzanilla and Palo Cortado are varieties of which wine?
11 Which mysterious prisoner was buried under the name of ‘Marchioly’ in 1703?
12 What did Paul Hogan say tasted “like an angel crying on your tongue”?
13 Which TV and audio products company has a museum in Struer, Denmark?
14 Which book series centres on the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny?
15 Which mathematician built the first reflecting telescope in 1668?
16 Which Trinidadian-born rapper launched the perfume Pink Friday in 2012?
17 Which type of single-celled organism derives its name from the Greek for ‘change’?
18 Who owned the legendary racehorse Red Rum?
19 Which British wheelchair athlete won his first London Marathon in 2002?
20 What is the nickname of the pictured dinosaur?
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