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QUIZ 27 – General Knowledge

1 Reverend John Flynn founded which air ambulance service?

2 The Brockman family featured in which BBC One sitcom?

3 What type of delicacy are Isle of Man Queenies?

4 The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing is the world’s largest what?

5 What invention was given the US Patent No. 174,465?

6 What type of vehicle is the purpose-built TX4?

7 So You Win Again (1977) was which group’s sole UK no 1?

8 Peterman is slang for what type of specialist criminal?

9 Which shrub is named after the first US Ambassador to Mexico?

10 Which London venue is Europe’s largest multi-arts centre?

11 Which actor suffered the first of many on-screen deaths, playing Ranuccio in the film Caravaggio?

12 Which Paco Rabanne fragrance shares its name with a poem by William Ernest Henley?

13 Which Victorian architect designed Westminster Cathedral in the Early Christian Byzantine style?

14 Which podcast re-investigated the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee in Baltimore?

15 What was the only British fighter aircraft in continuous production throughout World War Two?

16 What is the Norfolk estate of the 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley?

17 In 1746, which painter married Margaret Burr, an illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort?

18 The Melbourne Ladies presented Ivo Bligh with which 11cm-high terracotta urn?

19 Prince Albert II of Monaco competed at the Winter Olympics in which sport?

20 Which machine is pictured?


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