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1. Which book by John Steinbeck opens with the sentence, "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth"?
2. Which singer starred in the 1976 film directed by Nicolas Roeg, "The Man Who Fell To Earth"?
3. Which two chemical elements form most of the inner and outer cores of the earth?
4. "The Air that I Breathe", written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, was a top ten hit in the UK and the USA in 1974 for which British group?
5. The invention of which development in control of the atmosphere is usually credited to Willis H. Carrier in Buffalo, New York, in 1902?
6. The sentimental patriotic song "Keep the Home Fires Burning" became popular during which war?
7. What name is given to the phenomenon where an electrical discharge appears during a storm, often on a ship or aircraft?
8. Around the edge of which ocean is the volcanic and earthquake region known as the "Ring of Fire"?
9. In which bestselling book published in 1960 did Gavin Maxwell tell his story of raising an otter in a village in western Scotland?
10. What name is given to the substance Deuterium Oxide (D2O) in which atoms of the isotope Deuterium replace the Hydrogen atoms found in normal water (H2O)?
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