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Which president is both the 22nd and the 24th president

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Grover Cleveland

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Who is president during the first world war

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Woodrow Wilson

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The Red Sea is connected toThe Indian Ocean by which gulf?

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Gulf of Aden

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The red river is a tributary of which river

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Mississippi River

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Which name is given to a red wine from Bordeaux

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Claret

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In which book would you find the character Svengali?

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Trilby by George du Maurier

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In which book would you find Long John Silver

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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

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In which book would you find the character Simon LeGree

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Uncle Tom’s cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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In which book would you find the character Bill Sykes

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Oliver twist by Charles Dickens

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In which book would you find Mephistopheles

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Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

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In which book would you find the character pinky brown

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Brighton rock by graham green

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In which book would you find the character Uriah heap

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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In which book would you find the character Milo mind bender

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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

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What does a pharologist study?

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Lighthouses. Pharos was the lighthouse at Alexandria

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What does a pernalogist study

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Pearls

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What was shaggy’s first name in Scooby Doo

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NOrville Rogers

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What was the first name of Carlos the jackal

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Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Venezuelan terrorist

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First name of the Fonz in happy days

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Arthur

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Japanese 1956 film based on King Lear

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Ran

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Oldest man in the Old Testament

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Methuselah

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What was the name of Popeye’s father

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Poopdeck Pappy. Popeye created by EC Seger

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Who played female lead in 1933 King Kong

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Fay wray

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What was Hank Hill’s profession in King of the Hill?

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Propane salesman

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Which Ugandan dictator was played by Forest Whitaker in the film last King of Scotland

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Idi Amin. James McElroy played Doctor.

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Which band took their name from an Aldous Huxley work
The doors from the doors of perception
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Where is the painted desert?
Arizona
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Who wrote the novel birdsong
Sebastian Fawkes
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What test is given to newborns?
apgar
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Who played the mad scientist in dr. Strange love
Peter sellers. Based on red alert by peter George
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In what year did ET enter theaters
1982 directed by Steven Spielberg
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Inspector morse partner?
Robert Lewis
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Actor who played Kato in green hornet?
Bruce lee
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On whose life was Robinson Crusoe supposed to be based
An epistolary novel by Daniel Defoe based on Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk published in 1719.
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On which day of the week does Robinson Crusoe meet his companion?
Friday (he calls him Man Friday)
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Four rivers in garden of Eden
Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates
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Lucy honeycurch is from which EM Forester novel
A room with a view set in Italy and England
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Name of John Constable painting?
The haywain
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Who wrote rasselas
Samuel Johnson
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A light dry sherry, also Spanish for camomile
Manzanilla
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In what year was George Washington inaugurated as the first president of the USA?
1789
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Mythical creature combo of scorpion, lion, man
Manticore.
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West African baboon
Mandrill
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Blackberry manufacturer RIM stands for what
Research in motion
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Current CEO of Apple
Tim Cook
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Who founded Google
Larry page Sergei brin
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Tom Bosley Catholic priest detective
Father dowling mysteties Sister Stephanie played by Tracy Nelson
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Cream cracker under the settee
Allan Bennett
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Martini garnished with pickled onion
Gibson
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Collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber and wrote lyrics for evita, Joseph and the technicolor dream coat, Jesus Christ superstar
Tim Rice
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Vincent Damien Furnier
Alice Cooper
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Barry Allen pincus
Barry manilow
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Declan Patrick McManus
Elvis Costello
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Allen Stewart konigberg
Woody Allen
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Marvin Lee Aday
Meatloaf
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Oscar Zoraoster Diggs
Wizard of Oz
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Bibendum
Michelin man
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John Reid
The Lone Ranger
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I killed my lesbian wife
Ben affleck
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SS uniform designer
Hugo Boss
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Female high and low singing voice
Contralto and soprano
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This is a far better thing that I have done
Sydney Carton from a Tale of Two Cities
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How tall is the Eiffel Tower in metres?
322
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What was Ian Fleming`s first James Bond novel?
Casino Royale
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Which two countries are double-landlocked (i.e. surrounded only by other landlocked countries)?
Lichtenstein and Uzbekistan
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Who played Carrie in the 1976 horror film of the same name?
Sissy Spacek
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Ophidiophobia is the fear of what type of creatures?
Snakes
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The characters Bert and Ernie from Sesame street were named after a policeman and taxi driver from what famous film?
`It`s A Wonderful Life`
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What is a group of chickens called?
A brood
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Where in the human body would you find the metatarsals?
In the feet
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What is the more common name for Ethylene Glycol?
Antifreeze
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What constellation represents a hunter with club and shield?
Orion
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Who invented the television?
John Logie Baird
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Equivalent to 3.26 light years, what is `parsec` is an abbreviation of which two words?
Parallax second
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What is oneirophobia the fear of? Children, Dreams or Blindness?
Dreams
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As in the saying `once in a blue moon`, what is a blue moon?
The second full moon that occurs in the same month.
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To the nearest whole number, how many revolutions does the moon make around the earth in a calendar year?
13
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Which plant is the only one to have flowers, but no proper leaves?
Cactus
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On which planet in the Solar System does it constantly rain acid?
Venus
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What two different types of camel are there?
Dromedary and Bactrian.
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What mineral has the lowest number on the Mohs scale?
Talc
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What does ASCII stand for in computing?
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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What do the letters in the acronym LED stand for?
Light-emitting diode
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What is the only venomous mammal in the world?
The duckbill platypus.
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In which TV show would you find the character of Edina Monsoon? `
Absolutely Fabulous`
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On TV, how was the character of Diana Prince better known?
Wonder Woman
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