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1. 1) The colour of the ball in snooker that is worth two points. 2) The second longest river in China?
2. 1) A nocturnal flightless New Zealand bird. 2) An informal term for a New Zealander?
3. 1) The British author of the novel Watership Down. 2) The second president of America?
4. 1) A large Eurasian bird of the crow family. 2) A chess piece that may only move any number of unoccupied squares in a straight line?
5. 1) A 1953 Marilyn Monroe film. 2) The river that flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario?
6. 1) The English architect who designed St. Paul's Cathedral. 2) A member of the Women's Royal Naval Service?
7. 1) Pontoon or any other similar card game. 2) A small oak tree of southeastern America?
8. 1) The larger variety of corgi. 2) A knitted sweater with buttons up the front?
9. 1) The first man to swim the English Channel. 2) The real surname of Cliff Richard?
10. 1) American inventor of the safety lift. 2) Singer who had a British hit with (Sitting On) The Dock OF The Bay?
11. 1) 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film starring James Stewart. 2) A sensation of dizziness resulting from a disorder of the sense of balance?
12. 1) The chief administrative official of a college or university. 2) Moody young American actor who starred in 'East of Eden', 'Giant' and 'Rebel Without A Cause'?
13. 1) A parish in East Scotland near Perth and former site of the Pictish capital. 2) A light plain doughy cake made from flour with very little fat and cooked in an oven, usually split open and buttered?
14. 1) A town of Meath, a county of Ireland in Leinster province.
2) Neat and spruce in appearance, slim and slender?
15. 1) 2000 sci. fi. film starring John Travolta and Forest Whitaker. 2) A song recorded by American female vocalist, Pat Benatar?
16. 1) A 1982 novel by Shirley Conran. 2) A delicate decorative fabric made from cotton or silk?
17. 1) A book by Ray Bradbury made into a film. 2) German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer?
18. 1) Spanish port and birthplace of Pablo Picasso. 2) Sweet fortified dessert wine?
19. 1) A powerful current caused by conflicting tides around the Shetland and Orkney Islands. 2) A place, perch or branch where birds especially domestic fowl, rest or sleep?
20. 1) A purple-flowered plant cultivated for its flattened silvery pods which are used as an indoor decoration. 2) Sincerity or fairness.
21. 1) A cravat with wide square ends usually secured with an ornamental stud. 2) A venue in Berkshire, England, noted for its horse race meeting, held for four days in June.
22. 1) A unit of fluid measure equal to one sixtieth of a drachm. 2) A musical note having the time value of half a semibreve?
23. 1) A dance similar to the samba originating in Brazil. 2) A faint variable star that undergoes an explosion and fast increase in luminosity?
24. 1) A beautiful Trojan youth in Classical Mythology who was abducted by Zeus and made the cupbearer of the gods. 2) The largest of the twelve satellites of Jupiter?
25. 1) An English county whose administrative centre is Kingston upon Thames. 2) A light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage having two or four seats?
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