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Оглавление1 Which entertainment company was founded by the former fire-eater Guy Laliberte in 1984?
2 Who composed the theme to the 1964 film 633 Squadron?
3 How many syllables are there in a haiku?
4 Who opened his first fish ’n’ chips restaurant in Bradford in 1926?
5 Heracles was the result of an affair Zeus had with which mortal?
6 Which Yorkshireman wrote the plays Bouncers and Teechers?
7 Who hosted infamous parties at 32 Ambleside Avenue, Streatham?
8 Robin’s Nest and George and Mildred were spin-offs of what sitcom?
9 Which Englishman wrote The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847)?
10 Biman is the state-owned airline of which Asian country?
11 Musically, what links Arabella, Daphne, Elektra and Salome?
12 What did “Slasher Mary” Richardson attack with a meat cleaver on March 10, 1914?
13 In 1670, Louis XIV founded which Paris hospital for infirm soldiers?
14 Which clinical disorder’s name, meaning ‘to be seized by somnolence’, was coined by Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau in 1880?
15 Co-founded by CEO James Park, which San Francisco-based company makes the Surge and Charge HR activity trackers?
16 In 1968, who was sacked from the Shadow Cabinet for his “Rivers of Blood” speech?
17 St. Thomas, Oleo, Doxy and Airegin are compositions by which US jazz saxophonist?
18 Set in 1992, which track world record is held by US athlete Kevin Young?
19 Who was killed at the Tamburello curve on May 1, 1994?
20 Which species of antelope is pictured?
