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1. Who directed the 1969 film 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'?
2. This jazz singer, originally Eleanor Fagan, led a troubled life and died in 1959 aged only 44. Her biography, 'Lady Sings the Blues', was made into a film in 1972 starring Diana Ross. Can you name her?
3. What is the state capital of Tasmania?
4. According to classical mythology who was the sun god?
5. Saintpaulia is a what?
6. And following the plant theme, what is the study of growing plants without soil?
7. This British astronomer and mathematician was the first to realise that comets have periodic orbits . A comet named after him orbits the sun every 76 years and was last seen in 1986. Can you name him?
8. Batophobia is the fear of what?
9. This actress died in 1937 aged just 26. She starred in 'Platinum Blonde' in 1931 and 'Bombshell' in 1933. She became known as the 'Blonde Bombshell'. She was Jean ------?
10. 'Whatsoever house I enter, there will I go for the benefit of the sick,refraining from all wrongdoing...Whatsoever things I see or hear in my attendance of the sick which ought not to be voiced abroad, I will keep silence thereon'. Extracts from which oath formerly taken by all medical students and parts of which are still used in some medical schools?
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