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Оглавление1 The confection Lokum is known by what name in the West?
2 Which Hans Christian Andersen title character slept in a walnut shell?
3 Rising to 3415m, Emi Koussi is the highest summit in which desert?
4 Which “very friendly lion” featured in the children’s TV show The Herbs?
5 Cyril Kenneth Bird (1887–1965) was the real name of which Punch cartoonist, the only one to become the magazine’s editor?
6 Friedrich Fröbel pioneered what concept in the preschool education?
7 Who modelled Beatrice Portinari in the c.1864–70 painting Beata Beatrix after his late wife, Elizabeth Siddal?
8 Victoria amazonica is the largest species in the Nymphaeaceae family of which flowering plants?
9 What does the Latin saying “homo homini lupus” mean?
10 What were deciphered by Jean-François Champollion in the early 19th century?
11 King George II was the last monarch to reside at which palace?
12 Potiphar’s wife attempted to seduce which Old Testament prophet?
13 What are Hungarian, Pencil, Fu Manchu and Walrus types of?
14 Which wife of Michael Frayn has written biographies of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys and Thomas Hardy?
15 In 1937, the mosquito-borne West Nile virus was first isolated in the West Nile district of which country?
16 In 1947, Maurice Wilks tested a prototype for which off-road utility vehicle in fields at Red Wharf Bay on Anglesey?
17 Founded in 1804, what claims to be “the world’s largest gardening charity”?
18 The great racing greyhound Mick The Miller was born in which country?
19 Nicknamed ‘The Fighting Marine’, which US heavyweight boxer starred in the 1926 film The Fighting Marine?
20 Who is this British inventor?
