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What is Hannibal Lecter's profession?
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Psychiatrist
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Which former country's communist regime was overthrown during the largely peaceful Velvet Revolution?
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Czechoslovakia
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What is a yuzu?
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A citrus fruit
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Which 1964 Stanley Kubrick movie is subtitled 'How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'?
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Dr Strangelove
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On 8th December 2020, William Shakespeare became the first man in the world to receive what?
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A COVID vaccine
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First appearing in a 1912 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, by what name is Lord Greystoke better known?
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Tarzan
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Olga, Irina and Maria are the eponymous 'Three Sisters' in a play by which Russian playwright?
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Anton Chekhov
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Which Pacific nation was formerly known as 'Pleasant Island'?
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Nauru
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Born in 1933 and dying in 1945, Terry played which character in 'The Wizard of Oz'?
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Toto
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In 1982, three-time Russian Olympic gold-medallist Vladimir Smirnov was accidentally killed by his West German opponent in which combat sport?
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Fencing
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At 3,222m, Afriski is Africa's highest ski resort. In which country can Afriski be found?
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Lesotho
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The best-selling true crime novel of all time is Vincent Bugliosi's 'Helter Skelter', which tells the story of which notorious serial killer?
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Charles Manson
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By what name is the digitus minimus manus better known?
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Pinkie
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Which current world leader once starred in a sitcom entitled 'Servant of the People', in which he played a fictional president of his country?
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Volodymyr Zelensky
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Lynchburg, Tennessee is the home of which spirit manufacturer?
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Jack Daniel's
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Which disease was historically known as 'hydrophobia'?
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Rabies
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In July 2008, a man in South Wales called the police to report a mysterious bright UFO hovering above his house? What did this UFO turn out to be?
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The moon
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In Stephen King's novel '11/22/63', the protagonist Jake Epping travels in time to attempt to prevent the assassination of which historical figure?
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John F. Kennedy
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In 2017, the Chinese government banned the image of Disney’s version of which fictional character, after a series of internet memes noted his resemblance to Xi Jinping?
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Winnie the Pooh
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The sheep cloned by Keith Campbell and Ian Wilmut at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute in 1996 was named after which American singer?
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Dolly Parton
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