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1. Who would use a metronome?
2. What colour lies between red and yellow in the visible spectrum?
3. What is a young swan called?
4. What sort of scan builds up a three-dimensional 'map' of a patient's body as the X-rays pass through their body using a circular scanning machine?
5. Dr. Crippen murdered his wife and tried to escape to Canada with his mistress in 1910. What was Crippen's first name?
6. Which of the following isn't a desert plant?
7. Which ocean was formerly known as El Mar de Sur?
8. A movie is a long strip of thousands of still photographs projected so fast that they appear to the eye to make moving pictures. How many frames are used a second to make this animation?
9. Which sign of the zodiac is the only one that doesn't feature a creature or person?
10. How many of the following were Scottish inventors: David Brewster (kaleidoscope), James Watt (condensing steam engine), Charles Macintosh (waterproof macintosh) and John Logie Baird (television)?
11. Who wrote 'Beau Geste'?
12. How long would an astronaut's footprints last for on the moon?
13. Name the author of 'The Prince and the Pauper'.
14. Where did Napoleon Bonaparte die?
15. Which is the sixth letter in the Greek Alphabet: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, ... ?
16. The volcano on the uninhabited island of Krakatoa, between Java and Sumatra, erupted in 1883 sending tidal waves to neighbouring islands. How many lives did this claim?
17. The first ever 'assembly line' of workers were used to build which car?
18. According to legend, which Greek hero killed the half-man and half-bull monster called the Minotaur?
19. The 'Jahre Viking' was the world's biggest ... ?
20. In 1953 New Zealander Edmund Hillary, along with Nepalese Tenzing Norgay, climbed Everest. What nationality, in 1975, was the first woman to climb Everest?
21. How did Polish-born scientist Marie Curie die?
22. The first of its type was introduced in 1930 and called 'Baffle Ball'. What became an instant hit selling 50,000 of these?
23. Old Faithful, a geyser in Yellowstone National Park USA, has erupted roughly every ... minutes for the last eighty years?
24. What motor powered Clive Sinclair's electrically powered three-wheel vehicle, the C5?
25. Name the mechanical model of the solar system in which the planets can be moved at the correct relative velocities around the sun?
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