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Оглавление1 The PIDE was which European country’s secret police force?
2 Which Chinese lager is the best-selling beer brand in the world?
3 Which “High Priest of Soul” released the 1962 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music?
4 What is the surname of the unruly Wolverhampton-based family in the sitcom Raised by Wolves?
5 Which small strait in the Norwegian municipality of Bodø has the world’s strongest tidal current?
6 Who is the only monarch to be born and die at Buckingham Palace?
7 What is the oldest university in the English-speaking world?
8 Monica Ali’s 2011 novel Untold Story imagines that which princess faked her own death?
9 Which dictator, who died in Saudi Arabia in 2003, said: “I don’t like human flesh – it’s too salty for me”?
10 The 5p coin is legal tender for amounts up to how many pounds?
11 Ludovic Kennedy married which Scottish ballet dancer in 1950?
12 PC George Dixon (played by Jack Warner) was shot by a young Dirk Bogarde (playing “hardened” criminal Tom Riley) in which 1950 film?
13 Charles Babbage, Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Harold Pinter are buried in which London cemetery?
14 Which Venetian painted Laura, The Three Philosophers and The Tempest?
15 What did James I call “a custome lothesome to the eye [and] hatefull to the Nose”?
16 Which elephant-headed Hindu god is the son of Shiva and Parvati?
17 Which Australian woman won a record 62 Grand Slam tennis titles?
18 “Ring Taw” is the version of which game played at its British and World Championship?
19 Contested every four years, what type of race is the Route du Rhum?
20 Which brutal dictator, who seized power in the Gambia in 1994, is pictured?
