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1. 1) The national bird of America with a white head and tail, a yellow bill and dark wings and body. 2) In golf a score of two strokes under par for a hole?
2. 1) Actor who played Steve McGarrett in Hawaii Five-O. 2) A respectful form of address used to a judge, bishop, or nobleman?
3. 1) In tennis at the Sydney Olympics she was the first woman to win a gold in singles and doubles (with her sister Serena) since 1924. 2) The Roman goddess of love?
4. 1) A card game for only one player known as Solitaire in North America. 2) A Gilbert and Sullivan operetta subtitled 'Bunthorne's Bride'?
5. 1) A river in South America being the largest river, by volume, in the world. 2) In Greek Mythology one of a race of women warriors of Scythia near the Black Sea?
6. 1) The state capital of North Dakota. 2) In 1871 he became the first Chancellor of the German Reich and was called the 'Iron Chancellor'?
7. 1) 1978 Top Ten British hit single for the group Earth Wind and Fire. 2) A month of the year consisting of 30 days?
8. 1) Any of various sea perches, a popular game fish with one large spiny dorsal fin separated from a second smaller one. 2) The lowest adult male singing voice?
9. 1) The name of the son of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones. 2) American singer born Robert Zimmerman?
10. 1) Television series in which Ronnie Barker played prison lag Norman Stanley Fletcher. 2) A dish made from oatmeal, cooked in water or milk to a thick consistency?
11. 1) A large tropical American arboreal lizard having a greyish-green body with a row of spines along its back. 2) A 1964 film starring Richard Burton as a defrocked clergyman bent on destruction?
12. 1) A large bird of the species corvus. 2) A member of the North American Indian people living in East Montana?
13. 1) A breed of horse of North African origin similar to the Arab horse. 2) Subsidiary point facing in the opposite direction to the main point of a fish-hook intended to make extraction difficult?
14. 1) A journey, travel or passage especially one to a distant land by sea. 2) 1966 Science Fiction film starring Raquel Welch where a team of surgeons and scientists shrink to bacteria size in order to enter the human body to perform a delicate brain operation?
15. 1) 1987 World Formula One motor racing champion. 2) British naval commander during the Napoleonic wars?
16. 1) 1880 French novel by Emile Zola. 2) Name of the Newfoundland nurse-dog in Peter Pan?
17. 1) A small high-pitched flute used in military bands and similar to the piccolo. 2) Local government region of East central Scotland?
18. 1) Adriatic port and resort in West Croatia. 2) To separate or be separated from a whole?
19. 1) Tommy Steele film musical based on 'Kipps' by H.G. Wells. 2) Obsolete small British cupronickel coin worth 2.5 new pence, once called a tanner and not minted since 1970?
20. 1) An island in the Tyrrhenian sea which is famous for its active volcano. 2) Foulfellow the fox took Pinocchio to this puppet master and was handed a bag of money in payment. Pinocchio appeared in whose puppet theatre?
21. 1) 1941 film directed by and starring Orson Welles. 2) The cartoonist who created Batman?
22. 1) A bowed stringed instrument, the alto of the violin family. 2) Any temperate perennial plant whose flowers can be white, yellow, blue or mauve?
23. 1) British comedian whose characters included the toothy vicar, Mandy the peroxide bombshell and an ageing bovver boy who had his own series on BBC 1 during 1963-1981. 2) A hard greyish-black mineral consisting of corundum and used as an abrasive or polishing agent?
24. 1) A kind of short jacket not reaching the waist. 2) Orchestral work by Maurice Ravel associated with ice-skaters Torvill and Dean?
25. 1) Small monkey having long hair and a long bushy tail. 2) The pen-name of short story writer Hector Hugh Munro?
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