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Оглавление1 The famous feline Tardar Sauce (b. 2012) is known by which internet name?
2 Which US actor (1919–93) was key in creating London’s new Globe Theatre?
3 Who did Joyce describe as the “one-handled adulterer” in Ulysses?
4 Wootz, Damascus and Noric are renowned types of which alloy?
5 Sir Thomas Bertram owns which estate in an 1814 novel?
6 Which throwing device has a dingle arm, a lift arm and an elbow?
7 Who was assassinated as she walked to an interview with Peter Ustinov?
8 What is the nearest “yellow dwarf ” to Earth?
9 The strangulation of Mrs. Boyle at the end of Act 1 is central to which play’s plot?
10 The organ of Corti is found where in mammals?
11 Which motorcycle gang TV drama was set in the Californian town of Charming?
12 Which Japanese structure is the world’s tallest tower?
13 “Discovered” in 1824 by the Scottish merchant Robert Hunter, Chang and Eng Bunker were the original what?
14 Roland Berrill and Dr. Lancelot Ware founded which high IQ society in 1946?
15 Divers (2015) is the fourth album by which harpist wife of US actor Andy Samberg?
16 Which king supposedly said: “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”?
17 Giacomo Meyerbeer’s last opera, L’Africaine, is about which Portuguese explorer?
18 Which country plays the All Blacks for rugby’s Freedom Cup?
19 Which future Baroness became managing director of Birmingham City FC in 1993?
20 Name the South African-born entrepreneur in the picture –
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