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Оглавление1 Which US filmmaker directed the TV pilot episodes of Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl?
2 What type of elite service is Gray & Farrar?
3 In France, the term ‘un nègre’ is used to describe which literary role?
4 Which disaster site’s clean-up operation involved around 830,000 “liquidators”?
5 Dibatag, gerenuk, chinkara, puku and lechwe are species of what?
6 What is the most abundant mineral in Earth’s continental crust?
7 In 1826, which elite infantry corps was forcibly disbanded by Sultan Mahmud II in the Auspicious Incident?
8 Jim Backus voiced which nearsighted cartoon character with the first name Quincy?
9 Gifts made of what material are given on a 15th wedding anniversary?
10 Which author took off in a P38 plane from Corsica on July 31, 1944, and vanished?
11 Which British heavy metal band released the 1980 single Breaking the Law?
12 In 1994, Tom Ford became creative director of which Italian fashion group?
13 Which element, the final member of the actinide series, is named after the inventor of the cyclotron?
14 Who painted The Shrimp Girl (c.1740–45) and David Garrick as Richard III (1745)?
15 In 1916, Berlin, Ontario was renamed after which British Army officer?
16 In which US state is the historic site Cahokia Mounds?
17 Which Uddingston, Lanarkshire-based biscuit maker is famed for its Teacakes and Caramel Wafer?
18 In which type of fencing is the entire body a valid target?
19 Which Great Britain competitor won 2014 Winter Olympic gold in the women’s skeleton bob?
20 Name the pictured NASA rover –
