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1. Costing sixty five times more in mid-2016, at the time the Brexit vote was carried, how much was the average price of a house in the UK fifty years earlier in 1966?
2. What children's TV programme, first appearing in 1966, featured stop motion puppets and started with the words, 'Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play...'?
3. The then U.K. Prime Minister called a snap General Election in March 1966, hoping to improve on a four-seat majority. With a wife called Mary, who was the Labour PM?
4. What did Pickles, the mongrel dog, find wrapped in newspaper in a south London garden in March 1966?
5. A trial began at Chester Crown Court on 6th May 1966. Charged with three murders, which infamous couple were collectively known as the Moors Murderers?
6. A film would be made about him in the 1980s, but who was arrested on 19th September 1966 for his part in The Great Train Robbery?
7. One of the worst disasters to hit Wales occurred in which unsuspecting town in October 1966?
8. Written as a prequel to "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, what novel by Jean Rhys was published in 1966?
9. Based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fiction book, what was the name of the 1966 film adaptation starring Virginia McKenna?
10. Which famous sportsman received his draft papers in March 1966 but announced himself a conscientious objector and refused to fight for the USA?
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