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1 Mount Aconcagua is in which South American country? 2 What type of flying insect is a velvet ant? 3 What is a mellophone? 4 Refraction involves a changed direction of what? 5 Which class of jellyfish is only found in seawater: scyphozoans or hydrozoans? 6 In what country did the motor scooter originate? 7 What girl’s name beginning with H means ‘ruler of the home’? 8 How many Test hundreds were made by Donald Bradman? 9 What is Africa’s largest country by area? 10 Who wrote the poem Onthe Pulse of Morning? 11 By what name is a coccinellidae beetle commonly known? 12 Which US action star obtained Russian citizenship in 2016? 13 Acajou is another name for what nut? 14 What are the middle names of Queen Elizabeth II? 15 What is the name of the target in a game of curling? 16 What is the largest island in Asia? 17 In which decade did Edmund Hillary reach the summit of Mount Everest? 18 What is US director Spike Lee’s first name? 19 A shearwater is what type of creature? 20 What is the official language of Brazil? 21 Which ex-Beatle narrated the TV series Thomas the Tank Engine? 22 Alecia Beth Moore is the real name of which US singer? 23 How many time zones are recognised in China? 24 Which popular two- player strategy game is also known as Captain’s Mistress? 25 What does a philatelist collect? 26 Since 2010 the San Francisco Bay fog has been known by what name? 27 Which antelope is also known as a gnu? 28 Degas, Monet and Renoir were all members of which art movement? 29 Who plays Dolores Abernathy in the TV series Westworld? 30 The annual Camel Cup race is held in which state or territory?

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