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Оглавление1 Formed in 1570, which foundry is Britain’s oldest manufacturing company?
2 Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer both created and star in which Comedy Central sitcom, premiered in 2014?
3 Which mammal is named from a Malay word meaning ‘something that rolls up’?
4 Which architect’s Marseille uníté d’habitation, an 18-floor vertical community, was completed in 1952?
5 Which book opens: “I come from Des Moines. Someone had to”?
6 The Hatfields fought which family in an infamous 19th century American feud?
7 “Mendips”, aka 251 Menlove Avenue, was the childhood home of which Beatle?
8 Which Serbian-American inventor discovered the rotating magnetic field (1882)?
9 First flown in 1935, the Junkers Ju87 dive-bomber had which nickname?
10 “Big Suze” in the sitcom Peep Show, the actress Sophie Winkleman married which Lord in 2009?
11 In yoga, the body has how many chakras (major energy centres)?
12 Nahum Tate gave which Shakespeare tragedy a happy ending in 1681?
13 Which man’s oldest surviving creation is Pierre the French Rat?
14 Which object was known in Gondorian lore as “Isildur’s Bane”?
15 419 scams are named for a clause in which country’s criminal code?
16 Georges Lemaître’s ‘hypothesis of the primeval atom’ is known by what modern name?
17 Whose 1,093rd patent was for a ‘Holder for Article to be Electroplated’ (1931)?
18 Fondly remembered for playing the Man U-crazed games teacher Mr. Sugden in the film Kes, which late actor wrestled as “Leon Arras, the Man from Paris”?
19 Who won the first ever Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year” title in 1954?
20 Which city is home to the pictured Nanpu Bridge?
