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Оглавление1 About 4,000 crocus stigmas are needed to yield one ounce of what?
2 Juditha Triumphans (1716) is which Italian composer’s only surviving oratorio?
3 Which cathedral is home to the Hedda Stone and Catherine of Aragon’s tomb?
4 What was the seventh commandment in the so-called ‘Wicked Bible’ of 1631?
5 Which bird can be Pink, Rock, Speckled, Nicobar or Domestic?
6 Which Pacific republic is the first country to enter the New Year?
7 What type of traditional Andean musical instrument is the Siku?
8 Thomas Lawrence’s 1794 portrait of Sarah Barrett Moulton has what colourful nickname?
9 Alfred Eisenstaedt took a famous photograph of a couple kissing where on VJ Day 1945?
10 Roustam Raza was the faithful Mamluk bodyguard of which Frenchman?
11 Santa Cruz is the most populated of which Pacific islands?
12 The Icelandic dish harkal features what kind of rotted meat?
13 What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek first observe in 1674?
14 On February 9, 1976, who took up command of the minehunter HMS Bronington?
15 In which 1972 film does Tang Lung (Bruce Lee) fight Colt (Chuck Norris) at Rome’s Colosseum?
16 In 1957, which drug was first sold in West Germany under the brand name Contergan?
17 Opening in 1971, which snooker-related venue was designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch?
18 Which Turner Prize-nominee designed Partick Thistle’s terrifying mascot Kingsley?
19 In 1968, who became the first Kenyan to win the Olympic 3000m steeplechase title?
20 Which famous musical instrument is pictured?
