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Оглавление1 Luigi Boccherini composed Night Music of the Streets of which capital city?
2 Which December 1941 battle is sometimes called the “Alamo of the Pacific”?
3 The body of criminal Aris Kindt features in which 1632 painting?
4 Which UN secretary-general was killed in an air crash on the Zambian frontier?
5 A sambuca served con mosca (‘with flies’) has what added to it?
6 Which ancient Hindu text is the most famous work of Vatsyayana?
7 What did Cervantes call “short sentences drawn from long experience”?
8 Which Dutchman discovered Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in 1655?
9 What is Germany’s biggest selling newspaper?
10 First explored in 1994, which French cave features the Megaloceros Gallery?
11 The Lyle’s Golden Syrup trademark depicts which creatures?
12 What is the stage name of Hawaiian-born singer Peter Gene Hernandez?
13 Which US photojournalist was played by Candice Bergen in the film Gandhi?
14 Which volcano’s eruption caused the ‘Year Without Summer’ of 1816?
15 Born in Geneva in 1936, Karim al-Husayn Shah has which hereditary title?
16 Edward Lear described which characters whose “heads are green, and their hands are blue”?
17 Dinosaurs first appeared during which geologic period, about 230 million years ago?
18 Who wrote about life as a county cricketer in A Lot of Hard Yakka (1998)?
19 Which race is known in the US as “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports”?
20 Who is the pictured American fashion model?
