Huddersfield Daily Examiner

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It has been reported that Britons have lost £11bn since 2008 gambling on which devices?

Who has won in the European court in his attempt to show that rival appliance manufactur­ers are misreprese­nting energy efficiency?

Who did Donald Trump sack as head of the FBI?

Which disease has broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo two years after it was ended in West Africa?

Lewis Hamilton won the Spanish Grand Prix, but at which circuit was the race run?

Joseph Priestly invented which mixer often drunk with alcoholic drinks or cordial?

Who was the expedition leader when Edmund Hillary first climbed Everest?

The Garonne flows through which two countries?

Which city has always had a team in the highest division of English football?

Which British actor played Russell ‘Stringer’ Bell in the Baltimore crime drama The Wire?

A Woo Woo is a cocktail of cranberry juice, peach schnapps and which other spirit?

Football manager Jose Mourinho was born in which country

Ishmael and Queequeg are characters from which novel?

Marco Polo gives his name to which Italian city airport?

August 1, 1990 saw 100,000 Iraqi troops invade which neigbourin­g state, sparking off the first Gulf War?

On August 19, 1968, Soviet tanks rolled into which country?

In which month of which year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?

Which empire, led by which charismati­c general, conquered a vast part of Europe in the fifth century, before the empire dissolved just as quickly after the death of the leader?

In which year did the Battle of Waterloo take place? Which volcano erupted in 1906, causing huge damage and over 100 deaths in the city of Naples?

Whose rebel army threw the Spanish out of Venezuela in 1821?

Which country became the first to give women the vote in 1893?

Which actor played Batman in the film The Dark Knight?

Which city was the first capital of the Russian Empire in the ninth century? a)Yeliky Novgorod b)Omsk c)St Petersburg

Who led the Galic tribes in their resistance to Julius Caesar’s Roman legions?

Who was Prime Minister when Britain joined the European Union?

The Soviet Union and seven other countries signed which mutual assistance treaty in 1955?

Who was the Scottish general, with his Coldstream Guards, who was instrument­al in the restoratio­n of Charles II as monarch in 1660?

What was the first perforated UK postage stamp, issued in 1854?

What name is given to May 8 to mark the unconditio­nal surrender of the German Army at the end of the second World War?

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