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Оглавление1 The Swedish chemist Georg Brandt discovered which metal as a dark blue pigment in copper ore?
2 Which marsupial is the only known animal that produces cube-shaped droppings?
3 The Jewish Cemetery is a seminal work by which Mennonite Dutch landscape painter (c.1628–82)?
4 Which fungus was called “the diamond of the kitchen” by Brillat-Savarin?
5 Which princess “nearly married” the future Canadian prime minister John Turner?
6 In which city, the second largest in the Arab world, was OPEC founded in 1960?
7 Walter Potter became known for his eccentric Victorian collection of what?
8 Which planet is named after the Roman god of agriculture?
9 Which US guitarist sued Coldplay over similarities between Viva La Vida and his song If I Could Fly?
10 Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America, is in which valley?
11 The Qurikancha or Inti Wasi (‘sun house’) was the most important temple of which empire?
12 Bathsheba Everdene is the heroine of which novel by Thomas Hardy?
13 Which sitcom title character ended up marrying Harry Kennedy (played by Richard Armitage)?
14 Which US professor of cognitive science wrote the 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid?
15 Chiromancy is divination by what means?
16 Frank Bowden founded which bicycle company in 1887?
17 Rich Uncle Moneybags is associated with which board game?
18 Which Syrian woman became Olympic heptathlon champion in 1996?
19 Which Russian center for Pittsburgh Penguins won the 2006–2007 Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL’s best rookie?
20 On which Yemeni island does the pictured tree grow?
