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1. The great cultural phenomenon that is the Disney movie "Frozen" is set on a vast snowscape. It is based, very loosely, on the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" written in the 19th century by which legendary story teller?
2. Which Japanese city, host of the 1972 Winter Olympics, has frequently been the world's snowiest with an average annual snowfall of 595 centimetres?
3. In Broadwick Street, London in 2008, a large number of people named Snow gathered around a water pump to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Dr. John Snow, known as the father of epidemiology. The pump had been established by Snow's research as the focus of infection for an outbreak of what water-borne disease?
4. Taken from their ninth album, "Stadium Arcadium", which band released the 2006 single "Snow (Hey Oh)"?
5. In the classic Disney film, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", the huntsman is asked by the Evil Queen to kill Snow White. What does she demand as proof of her step-daughter's death?
6. Though somewhat distrusted as a Communist sympathizer in his home country, the American journalist Edgar Snow made his name through his reporting on a revolutionary army and its leaders in the midst of a "Long March". Of which country did Snow become the foremost Western expert in the late 1930s?
7. A child falls from a roof in Copenhagen. The police say he fell. His neighbour, based on her examination of the marks in the snow, says he was chased off. Which novel by Peter Hoeg, winner of the Glass Key award in 1993, is this?
8. Discovered to be on a Nazi list of those Britons that were to be arrested in the event of a successful German invasion of Britain, which civil servant, academic and novelist once said, "When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion"?
9. Born Mark Fulterman in 1946, the composer known professionally as Mark Snow has been nominated for numerous Emmy awards for his scores for US TV shows. Arguably his most famous composition is a TV theme tune for a sci-fi series about the investigation of paranormal events that later spawned two hit movies. For which series was it created?
10. The seventh book in a series created by Roger Hargreaves saw a snowman brought to life by Father Christmas to help him deliver presents to children. What is the series?
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