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Оглавление1 According to a classic tongue twister, what did Peter Piper pick?
2 What links the national anthems of Spain, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo and San Marino?
3 Austria’s Bregenz Festival stages operas on the shores of which lake?
4 In South Africa, what type of social gathering is a braai?
5 The Colour of Magic (1983) was the first of which fantasy novels?
6 Which Italian ship collided with the SS Stockholm in 1956?
7 Which children’s book creation had a heart “two sizes too small”?
8 Where was bandleader Wallace Hartley’s last engagement?
9 What metal did Kipling call the “master of them all”?
10 Which video game heroine is the daughter of Lord Henshingly?
11 Which ancient Greek philosopher founded the Lyceum?
12 Mount Pilatus and its summits Tomlishorn and Esel overlook which Swiss city?
13 Which socialist British newspaper styles itself as “The People’s Daily”?
14 The first space satellite orbited by the US, Explorer 1 discovered the innermost of which zones?
15 What is the Beatles’ best-selling single in the UK?
16 Flying V, Firebird, Archtop, L7 and Super 400 are guitars made by which US company?
17 Known for its incredibly long legs, what is South America’s largest canid?
18 Which Italian football team was wiped out in the 1949 Superga air diaster?
19 Whose one year, five day-reign as world chess champion is the briefest in history?
20 Name the pictured English actress –
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