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Оглавление1 In 1974, which shoe designer became the first man to appear on the cover of British Vogue?
2 Which Bollywood film, about a radio exec (played by Shah Rukh Khan) falling in love with a suicide bomber, features the A.R. Rahman song Chaiyya Chaiyya?
3 Which German-born French composer wrote the 1867 operetta Robinson Crusoé?
4 Which car manufacturer’s business was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922?
5 Dr. James Sheppard commits the eponymous crime in which Agatha Christie novel?
6 In 2002, Whenever, Wherever became which Colombian singer’s first UK hit?
7 Trepanging, a term derived from Indonesian, is the harvesting of which sea creatures?
8 In 1977, which German invented the “Plastination” method for preserving anatomical specimens?
9 Ratiocination is the process of what?
10 Which French writer (1913–2005) created the retired British officer Major W. Marmaduke Thompson?
11 Michael Ramsey was the 100th man appointed to which office?
12 Which infamous MP became the last ever Postmaster General in 1968?
13 Which TV detective was bossed around by “Horn-rimmed Harry” aka Superintendent Norman Mullett?
14 The word “Pinoy” is used to describe people from which Asian country?
15 The Copley Medal is given every year for “outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science” by which body?
16 Known by the Latin name Falco rusticolus, what is the world’s largest falcon?
17 New Zealand’s Nigel Richards is regarded as which board game’s greatest player?
18 Which rugby union position is called Losskakel in Afrikaans?
19 The 1976 men’s decathlon Olympic champion is now known by what name?
20 Name the former church in the picture –
