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1. According to the popular saying, what would you NOT be able to fit comfortably into a round hole?
2. In the British armed forces, a Sergeant Major would call out orders for hapless soldiers to take part in what activity?
3. What was the title of Michael Bentine's 1962 award-winning BBC comedy show?
4. On a trip to Scotland, if you were given something with the name 'Lorne' on your breakfast plate, what would you have been served?
5. Which mythical retail organisation have Reg Holdsworth, Alf Roberts, Curley Watts and Fred Elliot all been members of?
6. What would the good citizens of Edinburgh call a fair fight, taking place on an Edinburgh school playground or outside a local hostelry?
7. During a game of cricket, what position would you be taking up if you were standing closest to the second umpire whilst representing the fielding side?
8. What were the British Satellite Broadcasting dishes once called?
9. What was the name of the Bob Monkhouse noughts and crosses (US tic-tac-toe) quiz game first screened in the UK in 1975?
10. Which special day is only celebrated nine times every century?
11. If you sit around watching too much television you may get what (according to your mother)?
12. What would a traditional draughtsman use to draw parallel and horizontal lines?
13. What is the cupronickel Australian item with a Kookaburra Design that is much sought after?
14. Lady Raytham, a creation of author Edgar Wallace, wore which precious gem?
15. What would you call an arrangement of the numbers from 1 to n^2 (n-squared) in an nxn matrix, with all numbers occurring precisely once, and such that the total of the entries of whichever column, any row, or any main diagonal amounts to any other?
16. Mathematician Stan Wagon invented which unusual mode of transport?
17. What is often used to set off an interruption within a direct quotation?
18. What musical instrument would you associate with Johannes Zumpe?
19. US President Theodore Roosevelt instigated which reform policy?
20. Geoffrey Lumsden played which character in the popular UK sitcom 'Dad's Army'?
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