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1. Las Vegas is in which American state?
2. Who wrote 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'?
3. In the card game 'bridge', a hand of 13 cards in which no card is higher than nine is called ... ?
4. What was the name of the first dog in space?
5. Who invented the escalator which was shown at the Paris Exhibition in 1900?
6. Who wrote 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'?
7. Which Pacific island is the home of many carved faces and statues of its earlier inhabitants?
8. What type of animal was 'Flower' in Disney's 'Bambi'?
9. What is the chief town on the island of Mull off the west coast of Scotland?
10. Which of the following is a town in County Meath in the Republic of Ireland?
11. Into which sea does the River Danube flow?
12. What was the middle name of American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk?
13. What was the nationality of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
14. Which musical was based on diaries of a governess called Anna Leonowens?
15. What is the middle name of English cricket legend William Grace and English athlete Sir Roger Bannister?
16. What was the nickname of Belgian cyclist Eddie Merckx?
17. Which of the following ailments is the odd one out?
18. What is the capital of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean. Port ... ?
19. The Geiger counter is used to measure radioactivity and was developed by German nuclear physicist Hans Geiger. The device monitors the electrical changes produced by which particles given off by radioactive substances as they decay?
20. On 16th September 1908, General Motors formed by a merger of which two companies?
21. What was the name of the English furniture maker who wrote 1791's 'Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book'. Thomas ... ?
22. During the winter of 1838, the US government forced thousands of American Indians to leave their lands near the Atlantic coast to travel west. Many died on the 2000 km journey hence it became known as the 'Trail of Tears'. Which American Indians were involved?
23. The Quetzal has a spectacular green and scarlet plumage and tail feathers up to 90 centimetres long. It is the national bird of which country which also uses the quetzal as its unit of currency?
24. Simon Bolivar was named 'The Great Liberator' as he led the revolution that freed many South American countries from Spanish control. Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador were liberated along with ... ?
25. On which country's flag would you see a lion, a dove, coconut palms, bananas and sugar cane?
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