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Of whom did Margaret Thatcher say: "When I look at him and he looks at me, it doesn't feel like a man looking at a woman, more like a woman looking at another woman."
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Edward "Ted" Heath
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What links all of the following; Let's Make a Deal, Parade, 21 and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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Monty Hall Problem
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Give two answers which differ by only one letter: The final stage of an insect during metamorphosis and the husband of Emilia in the play "Othello".
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Imago, Iago
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Which word links all the following: A king whose grave was found underneath a parking lot, an adjective to describe the beasts of H.P. Lovecraft, a bird of the genus Struthio and a small, slender nematode worm.
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Rich
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"This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars ... This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England," is the final words spoken of which English statesman, the father of King Henry IV in Shakespeare's play Richard II.
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John of Gaunt
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In which South East Asian country are the cities Baucau, Viqueque, Same and Pante Makasar. The last one is located on an exclave known as Oecusse Ambeno divided from the rest of the country by the province East Nusa Tenggara. Atauro is the largest island, and Tetum together with English is the offical language.
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Timor-Leste
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Give two medieval woodwind instruments which are often confused with one another. Whilst one of them is oblong, the other is capped and often shaped like the letter "J".
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Cromorne, Crumhorn
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Complete this listing: Cervantes, Dickens, Saint-Exupéry, Rowling, Christie, Xueqin and ...
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J.R.R Tolkien
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What mathematical constant appears if you calculate the continuous fraction containing only ones.
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Golden Ratio
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Of whom did the English essayist William Hazlitts say: ""perhaps the most tender and the most artless (of all Shakespeare's women)". The character in question is one of the most prominent in the play Cymbeline.
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Imogen
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What ethnic group of indigenous people was native to Hokkaido, Northeastern Honshu, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and Kamchatka, the lands referred to as Ezo.
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Ainu
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"They illustrate the temper of a pre-revolutionary age, when there is a widespread desire for moderate reform". These words by Bertrand Russel refers to which two figures of the Northern Renaissance born respectievly in London and Rotterdam.
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Thomas More, Erasmus
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Which song also known as "Llorando Se Fue" and "Chorando Se Foi" has been sung by Los Kjarkas, Cuarteto Continental, Márcia Ferreira and Kaoma. It featured in a commercial by Orangina in 1989 and was later sampled by Jennifer Lopez in the 2011 song "On the Floor".
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Lambada
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What play by Chekov ends with this monologue given by Fiers; "... I didn't see. . . . Oh, these young people! Life's gone on as if I'd never lived. I'll lie down. . . . You've no strength left in you, nothing left at all. . . Oh, you . . . bungler!".
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The Cherry Orchard
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Give two answers which differ only by one letter: A word of French origin which replaced the Old English Word ātor, and a French mathematician who gives his name to a discrete probability distribution.
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Poison, Poisson
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