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Оглавление1 Sable is the heraldic term for which colour?
2 Thomas Young’s double-slit experiment disproved which scientist’s corpuscular theory of light?
3 Which Egyptian was the first Muslim Nobel laureate?
4 Which comedy legend wrote the 1963 comic novel Puckoon?
5 Chopin referred to which work, dedicated to the Countess Delfina Potocka, as The Little Dog Waltz?
6 The Austrian, Erwin Perzy I, invented which type of transparent sphere by accident in 1900?
7 Which TV family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace?
8 Which southern province of Spain is Europe’s driest region?
9 Also known for his 1920 opera Die tote Stadt, which Brno-born composer won an Oscar for his score to The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)?
10 The world’s largest book stands upright, set in stone, in the grounds of the Kuthodaw Pagoda in which Burmese city?
11 By what grisly name is titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), the flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, also known?
12 The photographer Rankin and Jefferson Hack founded which style magazine in 1991?
13 What is the longest motorway in the UK?
14 The Pythian Games were held in honour of which Greek god?
15 Chicago’s Rydell High School is the setting for which musical?
16 Dangerous Lady (1992) was which crime writer’s first published novel?
17 “The relentless building block video puzzle” was a slogan used for which game?
18 Copse is the first corner on which racing circuit?
19 Launched in 1997, the perfume Bolero was endorsed by which Argentine tennis star?
20 Name the city from the pictured skyline?
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