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1 What is the capital and largest city of Bali?

2 True or false: an octopus has two hearts?

3 How many strings are there on a standard double bass?

4 Who wrote the 1959 novel To Sir, with Love?

5 What is the longest-running West End show?

6 Which breed of cat has no tail? 7 How many canine teeth does a human have?

8 What type of creature lives in an apiary?

9 In the Shakespeare play, which character killed Macbeth?

10 In the movie Finding Dory, what type of fish is Dory?

11 How many vampiric bat species are there?

12 Muscat is the capital city of which country?

13 In which year did the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl occur?

14 The Pilbara region is located in the north of which Australian state?

15 What is Canada’s largest city?

16 Which son of Zeus and Europa was the mythical king of Crete?

17 Which country singer was known as ‘The Man in Black’?

18 In what city was the fortune cookie invented?

19 What is a funambulist more commonly known as?

20 Which French city is the closest geographically to England?

21 In what year was Google’s email service Gmail launched?

22 Who was the leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect?

23 What does a sphygmomanometer measure?

24 Who did Pete Sampras defeat to win the 1995 US Open title?

25 By what name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

26 What are Ceres, Eris and Makemake?

27 What iconic nightclub opened on Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, in 1964?

28 Which Frenchman directed the landmark 1960 new-wave film, Breathless?

29 A Pink Gin cocktail consists of gin and a dash of what?

30 On which continent is the Atacama Desert?

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