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Led Zeppelin
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Which super group were originally called the 'New Yardbirds'
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Dannii Minogue
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Which former soap star had a hit in 1993 with This Is It
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Male
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What is the capital of the Maldive islands
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Maldives
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With an average ground level of 1.5 meters above sea level, what Asian island nation is the lowest country in the world
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Greenland
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Cape Farewell is the southern tip of which island
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Corfu
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How is the England island of Kerkira better known to holiday makers
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Ten
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How many chains are there in a furlong
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Zinc
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What bluish white element is used in battery electrodes
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Longleat
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In 1949 which became the first stately home in England to open to the public
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Duke of Westminster
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Eaton Hall in Cheshire has been the seat of which ducal family since the 1440's
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Devon
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Powderham Castle is the seat of the earls of which county
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Anthony Minghella
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Who won the Oscar for best director for the 1996 film The English Patient
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A green frog
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What is the emblem of the Rainforest Alliance, which promotes and certifies sustainable rainforest business globally
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Who wrote the poems Kublai Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Barack Obama
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What US politician's 1996 autobiography was called 'Dreams From my Father'
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Bananarama
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Which all girl group had top ten hits in the eighties with Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Me Goodbye and Venus
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The Taming Of The Shrew
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Which Shakespeare play was the musical Kiss Me Kate based on
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Debbie Harry
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Which female singer had a top ten hit in 1986 with French Kissing In The USA
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Antelope
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What type of animal is a dibitag
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Seals
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What is the main diet of polar bears
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His own
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Whose record did Babe Ruth break when he hit 60 home runs in 1927
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Amazon
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What is the main river of Brazil
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Pacific
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In which ocean can one find Pentecost Island
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Berlin
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In which European capital city is the famous Hotel Kempinski
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Paul Gaugin
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Which artist painted the picture Tahitian Women
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Yorkshire
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Of which English county is a white rose the emblem
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Photofit
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What replaced the identikit method of finding criminals
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Spirit of Chartwel
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What was the name of the barge that carried the Queen during the river pageant in June 2012
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Upper thigh
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What part of the body would be protected by a piece of armour called a tasset
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Zinc
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Spelter is another name for which metal
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With praise
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What does the Latin phrase cum laude mean
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Forced labour camp
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What is meant in Australia by a Gulag
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Windsor Davies
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Who played Oliver Smallbridge in the eighties Australia sitcom Never The Twain
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You Can Leave Your Hat On
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To which song did the guys finally strip in The Full Monty
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Zion
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What is the name of the underground city in the Matrix films
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The Singing Detective
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For which Australia series did Michael Gambon win a Best Actor BAFTA in 1987
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Clay
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What are the targets in skeet or trap shooting made of
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Basketball
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What sport is played by the Indiana Pacers
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Radius
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What word is used to describe any straight line from the centre of a circle to the circumference
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Equilateral triangle
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What is a triangle called that has three equal sides and three equal angles
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Cosine
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In trigonometry, what is calculated by the adjacent over the hypotenuse
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Red
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What colour are the French Michelin Guides
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Sword
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What type of weapon is a tulwar
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Netherlands
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Utrecht is a province and provincial capital city in which country
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Seal
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What was the original purpose of a signet ring
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Dolphin
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What kind of animal is Olivia Newton John riding on the cover of her Physical album
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Animals
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Battersea Power Station in London appears on the cover of which Pink Floyd album
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Ringo
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Which Beatle holds a trumpet on the Sergeant Pepper album cover
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Be Here Now
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Which Oasis album cover shows a Rolls Royce in a swimming pool
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Sir Isaac Newton
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Who named the colours of the rainbow
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The Iceman
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The American contract Killer Richard Leonard Kulinski was known by what cold sounding name
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Primrose
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What was the name of the wife of convicted serial killer Dr Harold Shipman, who murdered over 200 OAP's in his home town of Hyde in Cheshire
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Ted Bundy
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Which serial killer was known as The Lady Killer
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Dr Julius No
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Joseph Wiseman played which James Bond villain
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Ben Miller
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Who is Alexander Armstrong's comedy partner, who also starred in the first series of TV show Death In Paradise
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The Bunkers
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Which fictional TV family lived at 704 Hauser Street, Queen's, New York
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Anthony Hopkins
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Who won the Best Actor BAFTA in 1993 for his part in Shadowlands
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Michael Winner
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Who directed the 1972 film the Mechanic starring Charles Bronson
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Pisces
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Which sign of the Zodiac is represented by a fish
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Show
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What word prefixes business, room, and case, to produce three other words
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Venice
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In which city is the Rialto Bridge
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Ullswater
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Glenridding and Pooley Bridge stand at opposite ends of which lake in the Lake District
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Top Hat
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From which musical did the Oscar winning song Cheek To Cheek appear
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Woman in Love
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What was the first UK number one for Barbra Streisand
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Stevie Wonder
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Who played harmonica on Chaka Khan's hit I Feel For You
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Tim Witherspoon
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Who did Frank Bruno first fight for the Heavyweight Title of the World
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Carrow Road
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At which football league ground can you sit in the Geoffrey Watling Stand
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Be Prepared
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What is the motto of the Girl Guides
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Moon River
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What was Andy Williams theme song
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Group X
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What was the original name of seventies group Hawkwind
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Ring of Fire
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What was the name of the disastrous musical based on the life of Johnny Cash that ended on Broadway after only a month
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White dwarf
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What is the name given to a small hot dying star
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Able and Baker
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What were the names of the first two monkeys to return from space
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Neptune
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Which planet in the Solar System has a great dark spot
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Algebra
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What is the study of symbols and the rules for manipulating symbols in mathematics called
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Derby winners
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What is the link between Blue Peter, Pearl Diver and Sir Peter Teazle
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Cottage
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In place names such as Coatbridge what does coat mean
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Murder on the Orient Express
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Murder on the Calais Coach was the American title of which novel
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Who wrote the novel The Last of the Mohicans, first published in 1820
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Hannibal
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What was the sequel of the book The Silence of the Lambs
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Len Deighton
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Who wrote The Ipcress File
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Aylesbury
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Near which town is the famous Stoke Mandeville hospital
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Eye
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In what part of the body would you suffer from Nystagmus
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Scarlet fever
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What disease is known by the symptoms of a rash and a strawberry coloured tongue
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The Luvvers
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What was the name of Lulu's backing group
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War chariot
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What was the first fighting vehicle
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Moraine
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What is the debris deposited by a glacier called
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Atoll
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What is the geographical term for a ring-shaped coral island
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White Anglo Saxon Protestant
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An acronym used in the USA what is a W.A.S.P.
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Baseball
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Southpaw to us means a boxer who leads with his right hand; but in which sport did the term originate
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New Zealand
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In which country is the Shell Trophy played for at cricket
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Frankfurt
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In which city are the headquarters of the European Central Bank
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Six
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How many of Shakespeare's signatures are known to exist
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Alexander Dubcek
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Who led Czechoslovakia before the 1968 Soviet invasion
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Isle of Man
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Tynwald Day is celebrated on which island in July
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Nine
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How many lives does each contestant start with in The Cube
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Alex Polizzi
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What is the name of the Hotel Inspector in the Channel 5 TV series
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Sound effects
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Seen on the credits of TV and films what is the function of a Foley Artist
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Woody Allen
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Who directed the film Hannah and her Sisters
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The come out
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In craps what is the first throw of the dice called
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