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Оглавление1 Which two countries’ security forces perform the daily Wagah border ceremony?
2 In 1993, who divorced Allegra Mostyn-Owen and married Marina Wheeler?
3 In which Franz Lehar operetta is Danilo obsessed with the Paris restaurant Maxim’s?
4 Who finished his Parma Cathedral dome fresco, the Assumption of the Virgin, in 1530?
5 Which song by Julia Ward Howe begins: “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord”?
6 Which US financial journalist wrote the 2014 non-fiction book Flash Boys?
7 Which term describes the prominent parts of a catfish that resemble a cat’s whiskers?
8 Salvatore Quasimodo wrote a poem describing which place “far from the Vistula” as “that pit of ashes”?
9 In Mexican cuisine, what is a chipotle?
10 In 2012, I.M. Pei’s Green Building was transformed by MIT students into a playable form of which video game?
11 Which venue has hosted more annual Royal Variety Performances than any other theatre?
12 In which country was the Pentecostal megachurch Hillsong founded in 1983?
13 Named after an Indonesian island, what is the smallest living subspecies of tiger?
14 Who is the drummer in Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem?
15 Which animal hospital is based at Haddenham, Buckinghamshire?
16 Which high school student used the aliases Calvin Klein, Darth Vader and Clint Eastwood?
17 The simplest alkane, which greenhouse gas has the formula CH4?
18 Which Soviet athlete won the 5,000m and 10,000m at the 1956 Olympics?
19 Which racetrack was nicknamed “The Green Hell” by Jackie Stewart?
20 Where is the pictured casino?
