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  1. Who wrote the 2017 book What Happened?
  2. Which country declared itself independent from Russia following the 1917 Russian Revolution?
  3. Actor Glynn Edwards, who is best known for his role as Dave 'the barman' in the ITV drama Minder, was married to which well-known British actress?
  4. Which planet in the Solar System has the most moons?
  5. Which large town is home to the Halliwell Jones Stadium and the first IKEA store ever built in the UK?
  6. Canadian-born American businesswoman Florence Nightingale Graham (1878-1966) went by which business name?
  7. Which five letter name repeated, gives you the name of the largest inland city in New South Wales, Australia?
  8. The song Dueling Banjos was made famous by which 1972 film?
  9. Which area of Edinburgh, at the end of the Royal Mile, is the location of the Scottish Parliament?
  10. Name the smallest British rodent?
  11. 'Brains' is the name of a regional brewery founded in 1882 in which British city?
  12. Who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014?
  13. Zsa Zsa Gabor was born in which European capital city?
  14. Which 1980 novel by British Indian author Salman Rushdie deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence?
  15. Which part of the body contains bones known as the ossicles?



  16. What weapon was used to assassinate Leon Trotsky?
  17. Which association is most widely known for placing bibles in hotel rooms?
  18. In which country did James Bond novelist Ian Fleming have an estate called Goldeneye?
  19. Enver Halil Hoxha was head of state of which country from 1944 until his death in 1985?
  20. Name the first singer to have been invited twice to perform the theme song at the Olympic Games?
  21. Which confectionary brand founded in 1907 by Sydney Herbert Marks, in Essex, is a boy's name spelled backwards?
  22. Who was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in 2015?
  23. The Turner Contemporary art gallery is in which English seaside town?
  24. Which member of the Beatles was the oldest?
  25. Which word, meaning 'small pebble' in Latin, is the mathematical study of continuous change?
  26. Kirkwall is the capital town of which group of Scottish islands?
  27. PG, a digital library founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works - what does 'PG' stand for?
  28. True or false. Argon is the third-most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere?
  29. Name the county in South Korea that hosted the 2018 Winter Olympics?
  30. Goodbye, Farewell and Amen was the title of the television film which was the final (and 256th) episode of which American television series?

Answers:

  1. Hillary Clinton
  2. Finland
  3. Yootha Joyce
  4. Jupiter
  5. Warrington
  6. Elizabeth Arden
  7. Wagga Wagga
  8. Deliverance
  9. Holyrood
  10. Harvest mouse
  11. Cardiff
  12. Donald Tusk
  13. Budapest
  14. Midnight's Children
  15. The ear
  16. An ice pick
  17. The Gideons
  18. Jamaica
  19. Albania
  20. Sarah Brightman
  21. Trebor
  22. Tom Watson
  23. Margate, Kent
  24. Ringo Starr
  25. Calculus
  26. Orkneys
  27. Project Gutenberg
  28. True (In order: Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, Carbon Dioxide, etc.)
  29. Pyeongchang
  30. MASH



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