| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Which large cat, native to Africa and Iran, is said to be the fastest land mammal? | Cheetah | 97%
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| François Mitterrand is the longest serving President of which country? | France | 90%
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| Honshu is the largest & most populous of the 6,852 islands of which country? | Japan | 90%
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| Which UK Prime Minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953? | Winston Churchill | 90%
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| Liebfraumilch is a style of semi-sweet white from which European country? | Germany | 86%
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| In Greek mythology, who was the god of the dead and king of the underworld? | Hades | 83%
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| What is the chemical symbol for the element Lead? | Pb | 83%
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| In which year did the Battle of Hastings take place? | 1066 | 76%
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| Which Brit won the Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship in 2013 and 2016? | Andy Murray | 72%
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| Which fourteenth century English poet and author wrote The Canterbury Tales? | Geoffrey Chaucer | 69%
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| Which country singer was sometimes nicknamed ‘The Man In Black’? | Johnny Cash | 69%
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| Which director made cameo appearances in forty of his films, his first such appearance being in The Lodger (1927) and his last being in Family Plot (1976)? | Alfred Hitchcock | 66%
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| Who composed the English-language oratorio Messiah, first performed in 1742? | George Frideric Handel | 55%
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| Arrival, Ring Ring and Voulez-Vous were all 1970s albums for which music act? | ABBA | 48%
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| The TV series The Wire depicted various aspects of life in which US city? | Baltimore | 31%
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