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6 Who (William ___) bought the Electric Suction Sweeper Company in 1907? (6)

7 Scientists have used

paintings by Canaletto to determine how

far which city has sunk? (6)

10 Which American space probe launched in 1989 reached Jupiter in 1995? (7)

11 What small magnifying glass is used by jewellers and watchmakers? (5)

12 Which fashion house showed its first collection in Paris in 1947? (4)

13 What is the molten rock

material within the Earth? (5)

16 Who (Alexandre ___) wrote Le

Comte de Monte-Cristo? (5)

17 Who (Edward ___) wrote

Laughable Lyrics in 1877? (4)

20 What operates abnormally

rapidly in tachycardia? (5)

21 Which city was capital of

Pakistan 1947-1959? (7)

22 A son of which Impressionist artist became a successful film director? (6)

23 What is the capital of Croatia?

(6) 1 While on the run, Cosa Nostra head Bernardo Provenzano eluded police by attending which film in

Sicily? (3,9)

2 Hannah Barlow was a specialist in animal scenes for which English pottery? (7)

3 What might be heard during

tintinnabulation? (5)

4 In TV’s Upstairs, Downstairs, what was the name of the upstairs family? (7)

5 Who was Roman emperor

when Vesusius erupted? (5)

8 In a song, who picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been? (7,5)

9 Whose refusal in 1955 to give up her bus seat to a white passenger galvanised America’s civil rights revolution? (4,5)

14 What was Hercule Poirot’s

last case called? (7)

15 What is also called

quicksilver? (7)

18 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent his childhood in which US state? (5)

19 What is a sports event involving both professionals and amateurs? (3-2)