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1. Crime writer Agatha Christie wrote romantic novels under which pseudonym?
2. We know that Roald Amundsen beat Captain Scott to the South Pole, but what was the name of the explorer that beat Amundsen to the North Pole?
3. Sir Archibald McIndoe was a pioneer in plastic surgery, rebuilding faces and limbs of injured WWII airmen. He worked at the Queen Victoria Hospital in which English town?
4. English poet and writer Robert became Poet Laureate in 1813. What was his surname?
5. A religious fanatic born in Devon in 1750, she gained a widespread following by prophecying the imminent arrival of Christ and that she would give birth to the 'Prince of Peace' in October 1814. What was her name?
6. Born Dawn Bethel in 1933, this American actress became known as who?
7. This couple had seven children but the body of one daughter was found under the floor of their Gloucestershire home in 1994. Eight more bodies were discovered there, and another three at another location. Which gruesome couple is this?
8. London Premiership football team West Ham are known by what nickname?
9. Sharing the same three names, one was an 18th-19th century painter of Napoleon and the other a 19th-20th century architect and furniture designer. Both English, their names were what?
10. A New Yorker born in 1891, he isolated the first bacterial virus. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1946. His name was?
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