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1 In what year was the Dunlop Volley shoe first produced? 2 In relation to fiction, what does the Bechdel test measure? 3 Colony collapse disorder threatens what variety of insect? 4 What is mining conglomerate Rio Tinto named after? 5 What is a ballista? 6 In what year did the Russian February Revolution take place? 7 What is the medical term for the area between the nostrils? 8 True or false: the United States has no official language? 9 Who plays the title character in the 2014 film Locke? 10 What substance is applied to cloth to make batik? 11 What is a baby camel called: a calf, pup or fawn? 12 Would you find a trivet on a car, dining table or chandelier? 13 What is the name of Janet Frame’s first novel? 14 Who wrote the 2010 novel Luke and the Fire of Life? 15 In what year did Australia cease issuing $1 banknotes? 16 Who fatally shot US musician Marvin Gaye in 1984? 17 True or false: elephants can swim? 18 Where in the human body would you find the basal ganglia? 19 True or false: Christian Bale auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic? 20 What is a baby crocodile called? 21 Whose face is on the United States one-dollar bill? 22 Which rock band released the hit song EyeoftheTiger? 23 Who wrote the 1868 novel Little Women? 24 In which ocean is the Bermuda Triangle? 25 In Disney’s TheLionKing, what type of animal is Timon? 26 Jean-Claude Van Damme was born in which country? 27 In economics, the GDP stands for Gross Domestic what? 28 How many stars are on the national flag of Venezuela? 29 In New York, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is located in: East Village, Midtown Manhattan or Upper East Side? 30 Which literary character lives with his half-brother Sid, his cousin Mary and his aunt Polly? Answers, this page