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Оглавление1 What six-letter name is given to is the back-to-front slang spoken by raucous French youths in the banlieues?
2 Which title character in a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin kills the young poet Vladimir Lensky?
3 Edward, the Black Prince won his spurs at which August 26, 1346 battle?
4 Meaning ‘those who face death’, what name is given to Kurdish freedom fighters?
5 In 1997, which Italian fashion house introduced the Baguette bag, an “enduring style icon” that has been produced in over 1,000 versions?
6 What 1982 song was Madness’s only number one single?
7 The chemist S.P.L Sørensen introduced the concept of which scale in 1909?
8 Which Roman poet (c.84–54 BC) dedicated dozens of his poems to Lesbia, a possible false name for his married lover Clodia?
9 The Palaeozoic Era ended with which extinction event, the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history?
10 Which 1935 musical comedy film features the Irving Berlin songs Top Hat, White Tie and Tails and Cheek to Cheek?
11 The disease beriberi is caused by a deficiency of which vitamin?
12 Which compact stars are the densest and smallest stars known to exist in the universe?
13 The author of the 2015 cookbook Deliciously Ella is the daughter of which former MP for St. Helens South?
14 Serving from 1949 until his death in 1976, who was the first Premier of the People’s Republic of China?
15 What did D.H. Lawrence describe as “hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer”?
16 Which military decoration was instituted on March 17, 1813 by Frederick William III of Prussia?
17 Designed by Dirk Henn, which 2003 tile-based board game features the building of an Arabian palace in 13th century Granada?
18 Who was Yorkshire county cricket club’s first overseas signing?
19 Russia’s Fedor Emelianenko has been called which sport’s greatest heavyweight fighter?
20 Name the pictured TV car –
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