| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Which band have had 4 UK Christmas Number Ones including "I Feel Fine", "Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out" and "Hello, Goodbye" in 1964, 1965 and 1967 respectively? | The Beatles | 62%
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| Which city in Denmark is the second largest by population and home to the headquarters of Arla Foods? | Aarhus | 42%
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| What is the international unit for radioactivity, represented by the symbol Bq? | Becquerel | 34%
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| Which Russian novelist's works included 'Queen of Spades', 'The Captain's Daughter' and 'Eugene Onegin'? | Alexander Pushkin | 23%
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| Which former Portuguese Prime Minister became the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2017? | António Guterres | 20%
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| Which olive-coloured gem is the birthstone for August? | Peridot | 19%
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| "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan is about the imprisonment of which boxer? | Rubin Carter | 19%
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| Which UK football team has the nickname 'Monkey Hangers'? | Hartlepool United | 18%
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| In which year was the Grand National declared void due to the majority of the runners carrying on after a false start? | 1993 | 17%
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| Which president of Iran from 1981-1989 before he became the 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran? | Ali Khamenei | 15%
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| In 1979, Jon Voight won the Best Actor Oscar and Jane Fonda won the Best Actress Oscar for which film? | Coming Home (1978) | 14%
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| In Greek Mythology, who did Perseus set free from Cetus before marrying her? | Andromeda | 13%
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| What is the capital of Italian region of Calabria, the region which occupies the "toe" of Italy's "boot"? | Catanzaro | 9%
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| Which American singer starred alongside Laurence Olivier in The Wedding Singer (1980)? | Neil Diamond | 9%
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| What is the name of the RAF air officer who is credited with inventing the turbojet in the 1930s? | Frank Whittle | 8%
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| Which battle in the First English Civil War was fought in Yorkshire on the 2nd of July 1644? | Battle of {Marston Moor} | 6%
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| Which Alexandrian mathematician wrote the Arithmetica mathematics text and is often referred to as 'the father of algebra'? | Diophantus | 5%
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| What was the name of the man that Princess Eugenie married in 2018? | Jack Brooksbank | 5%
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| Excluding the 3 Crown Dependencies, how many postcode areas are in the United Kingdom? | 121 | 2%
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| Which British cookery writer wrote booklets such as Is There a Nutmeg in the House? and An Omelette and a Glass of Wine ? | Elizabeth David | 2%
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