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| 39831 | From Which European Country Does Limburger Cheese Originate | Belgium | |
| 39832 | England Cricketer Denis Compton Played For Which County Club | Middlesex | |
| 39833 | Mount Godwin-Austen Is Better Known By Which Name | K2 (second-highest mountain on Earth) | |
| 39834 | Who Made The Famous Statement, 'I Think, Therefore I Am' | Rene Descartes | |
| 39835 | Who Composed The Ballet Music Swan Lake In 1877 | Tchaikovsky | |
| 39836 | The City Of Bulawayo Is In Which African Country | Zimbabwe | |
| 39837 | Henry Darnley Was The Husband Of Which British Monarch | Mary Queen of Scots | |
| 39838 | Catherine De Medici Was The Wife Of Which French Monarch | Henri II | |
| 39839 | In What State Was Jimmy Carter Governor Before Becoming President | Georgia | |
| 39840 | In Which European City Is The Sixteenth Century Limestone Bridge Of Sighs | Venice | |
| 39841 | In Which Film Does Robert De Niro Play The Character Rupert Pupkin | The King of Comedy | |
| 39842 | The Florence Nightingale School Of Nursing Was Founded In 1860 At Which London Institution | St Thomas' Hospital (the School is now based at King's College on the Thames South Bank in London and remains a centre of excellence for nursing and midwifery) | |
| 39843 | The Person Holding What Office Sits On The Woolsack In The House Of Lords | The Lord Chancellor | |
| 39844 | Who Was The First Woman To Win A Nobel Prize | Marie Curie (1903 for Physics - she also won in 1911 for Chemistry) | |
| 39845 | Graham Vivian Sutherland's Official Portrait Of Which Prime Minister Was Destroyed By The Subject's Wife Because She Hated It | Sir Winston Churchill (painted in 1954 and destroyed sometime after Churchill's death in 1965) | |
| 39846 | What Was The Name Of The Ship On Which Charles Darwin Set Sail On His Voyage Around The World In 1831 | HMS Beagle | |
| 39847 | Barack Obama's Best Selling Book Is Called 'The Audacity Of..' What | Hope | |
| 39848 | What, Loosely Translating As 'Self-Boiler', Is A Traditional Metal Russian Tea Urn Called | Samovar (derived from sam meaning self and varit meaning to boil, from Old Slavic variti meaning to cook) | |
| 39849 | What Is The (Traditionally Wooden) Housing Or Stand Which Contains A Ship's Compass | Binnacle (ultimately derived from Latin habitare, meaning to dwell, in which the T sound evolved to an N sound while the word transferred through French to English.) | |
| 39850 | Henry Sewell Led The First Government Of Which Country In 1856 | New Zealand (he held office as premier for just two weeks) | |
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| 39851 | Cedi Is The Basic Monetary Unit Of Which African Country | Ghana (Cedi = 100 pesewas) | |
| 39852 | The Town Of Fray Bentos, After Which The Meat Products Brand Was Named, Is In What Country | Uruguay (close to the border with Argentina, about 100 miles north of Buenos Aires - the original Fray Bentos was apparently a priest) | |
| 39853 | Finishing In Paris After Nearly 10,000 Miles, From Which City Did Racers Begin The First Long Distance Car Rally In 1907 | Peking (now Beijing) | |
| 39854 | Who Was The Famous Wife Of Leofric, Earl Of Mercia | Lady Godiva (Leofric and Godiva were important figures in early 11th England, but Lady Godiva's naked ride on horseback through Coventry to persuade her husband to lower people's taxes is not historically reliable, and probably legend based on her convent | |
| 39855 | James Earl Ray Was Arrested At Heathrow Airport In 1968 And Subsequently Convicted Of Whose Assassination | Martin Luther King | |
| 39856 | What Is The Flap Which Covers The Human Windpipe When Swallowing | Epiglotis | |
| 39857 | Which Early Charles Dickens Novel Features The Characters Wackford And Fanny Squeers, Smike, Newman Noggs And The Cheeryble Brothers | Nicholas Nickleby | |
| 39858 | In Language A Paronomasia Is More Commonly Known As What | Pun (A word with two meanings) | |
| 39859 | With What Is A 'Carpetbag Steak' Stuffed | Oysters | |
| 39860 | James Mason Played Sir Randolph Nettleby Which 1984 Film | The Shooting Party | |
| 39861 | The River Han Flows Through Which Capital City | Seoul (South Korea, or the Republic of Korea) | |
| 39862 | Who Was The President Of Yugoslavia, 1953-80 | Tito (Josip Broz Tito, 1892-1980) | |
| 39863 | The St Leger Is Run At Which English Racecourse | Doncaster (first run in 1776) | |
| 39864 | What Is The Largest Island In The Mediterranean | Sicily | |
| 39865 | Who Became The Chairman Of Watford Football Club In 1977 | Elton John | |
| 39866 | Yellowstone National Park Is In Which Us State | Wyoming (the first area to be designated a national park in the USA, in 1872) | |
| 39867 | What Is The Fourth Book Of The Bible's Old Testament | Numbers | |
| 39868 | Jenards Likely Lad Of Lardhams Was Better Known As Which Famous Animal | The Dulux Dog (the original Old English Sheepdog used in the Dulux paint adverts) | |
| 39869 | Which Popular Welsh Entertainer Wrote The First World War Song Keep The Home Fires Burning | Ivor Novello (1893-1951) | |
| 39870 | Who Played Elliot Ness In The 1987 Film The Untouchables | Kevin Costner | |
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| 39871 | What Was The Name Of Napoleon's Horse At Waterloo | Marengo | |
| 39872 | A 2007 Film Celebrated The 50th Anniversary Of Which Typeface | Helvetica | |
| 39873 | If Something Is Bicephalous It Has Two What | Heads | |
| 39874 | Which Famous Fashion Emporium Was Started By Barbara Hulanicki In London In 1964 | Biba | |
| 39875 | Who Wrote The Ballet The Firebird | Igor Stravinsky (1910) | |
| 39876 | Italian Dessert Of Whipped Egg Yolks, Sugar And Marsala Wine | Zabbaglione | |
| 39877 | Circular Collapsible Tent Of Felt Or Skins Used By Mongolian Nomads | Yurt | |
| 39878 | Irrational Fear Or Dislike Of People From Foreign Countries | Xenophobia | |
| 39879 | Us State Of Which Madison Is Capital | Wisconsin | |
| 39880 | Roman Goddess Of The Hearth | Vesta | |
| 39881 | Mottled Green And Yellow Citrus Fruit Hybrid Between A Grapefruit And Tangerine | Ugli | |
| 39882 | Bride In The 1998 Film Bride Of Chucky | Tiffany | |
| 39883 | The White Part Of The Human Eye | Sclera | |
| 39884 | The Right Page Of An Open Book | Recto (the left page is verso) | |
| 39885 | A Type Of Low Fat Curd Cheese | Quark | |
| 39886 | Female Part Of A Flower | Pistil | |
| 39887 | A Fine Translucent Stiff Cotton Muslin Used Chiefly For Making Dresses | Organdie/organdy/organza | |
| 39888 | The Tokyo Stock Exchange Index | Nikkei | |
| 39889 | The Twelfth Letter Of The Greek Alphabet | Mu (= m) | |
| 39890 | What is the name of the Zurich's River | Limmat | |
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| 39891 | Basketball-Netball Hybrid Game For Mixed Male And Female Teams | Korfball | |
| 39892 | Contest Fought Between Medieval Knights With Lances On Horseback | Joust | |
| 39893 | Chemical Element With Atomic Number 53 | Iodine | |
| 39894 | Metric Unit Equal To 10,000 Square Metres | Hectare | |
| 39895 | A Hot Spring Which Shoots Out Boiling Water And Steam | Geyser | |
| 39896 | A Maker Of Arrows | Fletcher | |
| 39897 | Traditional Fur Trim On Ceremonial And Heraldic Robes | Ermine | |
| 39898 | Framework For Oil Well Drilling Machinery | Derrick | |
| 39899 | Charles Babbage's Notable Invention | Computer | |
| 39900 | Children's Tv Programme Featuring Professor Yaffle (The Wooden Woodpecker) | Bagpuss | |
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