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1. Which of these somewhat odd-looking sea creatures is actually a species of fish?
2. Solve this cryptic clue to find the surname of a former US politician:
Painting like a woman president
3. Which actor has portrayed a hobbit, a doctor and one of David Brent's co-workers?
4. The titular Mappy from a Namco arcade game, Reepicheep from 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series and Mr. Jingles from 'The Green Mile' are all what type of creature?
5. Which series of children's fantasy novels features a main character described as both a genius and a "12-year-old criminal mastermind"?
6. Identify the abbreviations for these chemical elements and then rearrange the letters to find a word describing something very big:
Erbium, nickel, selenium, uranium and vanadium
7. The city of London is home to several skyscrapers with particularly distinctive designs and equally distinctive nicknames. Which of them is more formally known as 20 Fenchurch Street?
8. What was the name of the camel who served as a mascot for the Confederate Army's 43rd Mississippi Infantry regiment in the American Civil War?
9. In 1996, Deep Blue became the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning world chess champion. What was the name of its predecessor that in 1988 became the first computer to defeat a chess grandmaster?
10. Which 1980s West End musical - featuring Cliff Richard, Laurence Olivier, and songs by Dave Clark - told the story of a rock star being transported across space to face trial on behalf of the people of planet Earth?
11. Who wrote the trilogy of novels that included 'The Bourne Identity', 'The Bourne Supremacy' and 'The Bourne Ultimatum'?
12. Which actor portrayed the villainous Two-Face and his alter ego Harvey Dent in the 2008 movie 'The Dark Knight'?
13. Which Neil Young song that starts with the line "I want to live, I want to give" reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in April 1972?
14. Which daughter of a US President married Edward R. F. Cox in the White House Rose Garden?
15. Calvary, or Golgotha, is described in the Gospels as the location of the crucifixion of Jesus, but the early Christian scholar Origen of Alexandria also associated it with the burial place of what relic of an Old Testament figure?
16. Which red giant, that is usually one of the brightest in the Earth's night sky, dimmed dramatically between October 2019 and February 2020, leading to speculation that it might have been about to go supernova?
17. Which historic London venue is associated with 'Father Time' - a weathervane showing some sporting equipment being dismantled?
18. In 'Star Trek: Picard', the twins Dahj and Soji Asha were the daughters of which character from 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'?
19. In which video game, first released by Sega in 1992, does the main character visit the Arctic, the lost city of Atlantis and an alien planet named Vortex?
20. Between 1938 and 1961, the Ford Motor Company produced a range of "upmarket" small family cars (largely for the UK and Australian markets) under which model name?
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