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Оглавление1 Whose lecture series, The Chemical History of a Candle, was printed as a book in 1861?
2 Also known as the nutria or river rat, what semi-aquatic mammal is the largest British rodent?
3 Which Keats poem begins: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”?
4 The world’s tallest mosque, the Hassan II Mosque is in which city?
5 Which ballerina’s last words were: “Get my swan costume ready!”?
6 The Acme Thunderer is a bestselling make of which woodwind instrument?
7 Benjamin Waugh founded which children’s charity in 1889?
8 Kane’s Wrath (2008) is an expansion pack for Tiberium Wars, the third installment in which real-time strategy video game series?
9 Which Bolton comedian’s first volume of autobiography, The Sound of Laughter, sold 278,000 copies on its first day (including pre-orders)?
10 Which part of the brain derives its name from the Latin for ‘almond’?
11 W.H. Smith opened its first railway bookstall at which London station in 1848?
12 What was the monstrous offspring of Pasiphaë and a snow-white bull?
13 Valhalla is the largest impact crater on which moon of Jupiter, the most heavily cratered object in the Solar System?
14 Whose coffin was assigned the last ever Factory Records catalogue number FAC-501?
15 In 1927, which actress was sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex?
16 Which radioactive isotope of carbon was discovered by Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben in 1940?
17 In 1968, the Missourian oil tycoon Robert P. McCulloch bought which five-arched structure?
18 Held in the Czech city of Ostrava, what type of event is the Golden Spike?
19 Which French pair are the first swimmer-siblings to both win Olympic gold medals?
20 Which early computer is pictured?
