Food & Drink Derived from orchids and the second-most expensive after saffron, what is the name of this spice?
Vanilla
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On This Day Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for an invention he called the "telephone" on this day, 7th March, in what year? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
1876
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Science & Nature What type of acid is stomach acid?
Hydrochloric acid
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin' (1965)
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Sport & Leisure Shakhtar Donetsk are an association football club from what country?
Ukraine
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Geography What is the international name for the sea that Koreans call the East Sea?
Sea of Japan
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Anagram CIAO TO LATEST WIFE is an anagram of what classic novel, first published in 1859?
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
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Logos What professional American football team is represented by this logo?
New Orleans Saints
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Music What group co-starred with Peter Frampton in the 1978 film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
The Bee Gees
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History Who became Queen consort of England by marrying her brother-in-law in 1509?
Catherine of Aragon (First wife of King Henry VIII. She was previously Princess of Wales as the wife of Henry's elder brother, Arthur, until his death in 1502)
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Entertainment What is the title of the 2010 animated film loosely based on the German fairy tale "Rapunzel"?
Tangled
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Thailand The 26th consonant in the Thai alphabet, what object is used to represent this letter?
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well known term or phrase.
Wolf in sheep's clothing
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Current Affairs Dubbed Bloody Sunday, on the edge of what Alabama city were 600 civil rights marchers brutally attacked by state and local police on this day, 7th March, 1965?
Selma (while on a protest march to Montgomery, the state capital)
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Science & Nature What part of your body is also known as the axilla or oxter?
Armpit / Underarm
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Rita Coolidge - (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher (1977)
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Sport & Leisure In terms of U.S. sports teams, what words precede both Revolution and Patriots?
New England (NFL and MLS)
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Geography Flanders Fields is a common English name for World War I battlefields located mainly in what country?
Belgium (also French Flanders in the French department of Nord-Pas-de-Calais)
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Art & Literature Set in Shanghai during World War II, what 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard was made into a 1987 BAFTA-winning film?
Empire of the Sun
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Flags What country has this as its national flag?
Finland
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Music Following his highly successful 1968 live album, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, at what prison did Johnny Cash record his next live album in 1969?
San Quentin
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History Having shared the same time zone with Japan for 100 years, in 2015, what country established its own time zone by setting its clocks back by 30 minutes?
North Korea (Pyongyang Time UTC+08:30)
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Entertainment What young actress played Jodie Foster's daughter in the 2002 thriller Panic Room?
Kristen Stewart
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Add/Deduct a Letter A kitchen on the mezzanine. Answer with two words. The first part of the sentence is a clue to a six letter word. Add one letter to that word to give the answer to the second part of the sentence.
Food & Drink What nut gives Frangelico liqueur its distinct flavour?
Hazelnut
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In This Year In this year: The Tunisian and Egyptian governments were overthrown amid the Arab Spring protests; an estimated two billion people watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton; and Osama bin Laden was killed during an American military operation in Pakistan. What year was it? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
2011
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Science & Nature In 1982, Barney Clark became the first human recipient of an artificial what?
Heart
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting (1989)
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Sport & Leisure In Formula 1, what colour flag warns of a slow moving vehicle on the track?
White
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Entertainment What is the surname of the fictional family in Sesame Street headed by husband Gordon, a schoolteacher, and his wife Susan, a nurse?
Robinson
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Art & Literature Born in Florida, Missouri in 1835, by what name is author Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known?
Mark Twain
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Maps What country in Southern Africa is this?
Botswana
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Music What TV actor wished that he had Jessie's Girl in 1981?
Rick Springfield
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Anagram NEURAL DISASTER is an anagram of what classic novel, first published in 1883?
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Entertainment The song Moon River is most associated with what 1961 film?
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Audrey Hepburn)
12.
Sudoku Solve this Sudoku puzzle to reveal the 3 digit figure highlighted.
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well known term or phrase.
Shrinking violet
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Current Affairs Recorded by USA for Africa, We Are the World was released worldwide on this day, 7th March, in what year? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
1985
3.
Science & Nature What 'P' is used to describe several different carnivorous plants with modified leaves known as pitfall traps?
Pitcher Plants
4.
Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Radiohead - Paranoid Android (1997)
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Sport & Leisure For what domestic club did Pelé play between 1956 and 1974?
Santos (Brazil)
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Geography What is the only U.S. state that has no straight borderlines?
Hawaii
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Art & Literature In what Jane Austen novel does Elizabeth Bennet's sister, Lydia, elope with George Wickham?
Pride and Prejudice
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Landmarks Now a feature in Madrid, Spain, the Temple of Debod was originally built in what country?
Egypt (Relocated in 1968 during construction of the the Aswan High Dam)
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Music According to David Bowie's Space Oddity, how many miles had Major Tom passed?
One hundred thousand
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History Prince Henry the Navigator played a prominent role in the 15th-century development of what country's empire?
Portugal
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Entertainment Who starred as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in the 2008 film The Wrestler?
Mickey Rourke
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General Knowledge What former U.S. president's birth name was William Jefferson Blythe III?
Bill Clinton (he adopted his stepfather's surname at the age of 15)
