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1 What was singer Bing Crosby’s real first name?

2 What is the most expensive spice in the world?

3 Celeste was the wife of which fictional elephant?

4 What is Australia’s longest river? 5 Which airport has the initials BUE? 6 Who wrote the play TheImportance ofBeingEarnest? 7 OhWhataCircus is a song from which musical?

8 Is Mali a country in North, East, South or West Africa?

9 Barbra Streisand plays Roz in which 2004 movie?

10 Which river formed the Grand Canyon in Arizona, US?

11 Which marine animal belongs to the class Asteroidea?

12 In the fairytale, who woke Snow White with a kiss?

13 What is the capital city of Wales? 14 Singer Brian McFadden was a member of which boy band?

15 The Faroe Islands are the responsibility of which country?

16 Who wrote LesMisérables?

17 What is the official language spoken in Barcelona?

18 What was the name of Dennis the Menace’s long-suffering neighbour? 19 Who was the first American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award in direction for her film Lostin

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20 What is the term for an infant monotreme?

21 Jane Asher dated which member of The Beatles?

22 What is the main ingredient in the Eastern European dish borsch?

23 Are mudbricks made of fired or unfired clay?

24 True or false: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born in 1921?

25 What was the name of Bill Clinton’s pet cat during his presidential terms in the White House?

26 In botany, what is the term applied to trees that seasonally shed their leaves?

27 The flag of which country features the Yellow Bird of Paradise?

28 In which of his own movies does Alfred Hitchcock make a cameo as a passenger boarding a train with a double bass?

29 Astronaut Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. was better known by which nickname?

30 In which New York City neighbourhood was actor Al Pacino born? Answers, this page