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| # | Question | Answer |
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| 1261 | Which Lancashire Town Has A Name That Means A Small Brass Wind Instrument Used For Summoning Witches & Warlocks | Oswaldtwistle |
| 1262 | Which Famous Female Solo Artist Was Born On Christmas Day 1971 | Dido |
| 1263 | What does LL Cool J.'s name stand for? | Ladies Love Cool James |
| 1264 | Who Released The 70's Album Entitled My Aim is True | Elvis Costello |
| 1265 | What purged the Great Plague of London ? | Great Fire of London |
| 1266 | What was Elvis Presley's first motion picture? | Love Me Tender |
| 1267 | This Nazi leader had his six children poisoned prior to his own death. | Joseph Goebbels |
| 1268 | Who Had An 80's Hit With The Song 'Two of Us,' | Grover Washington with Bill Withers |
| 1269 | What Left Lisbon On May 28 th 1588 & Did Not Return Intact | The Spanish Armada |
| 1270 | What time of day is known as the 'Devils Dancing Hour' | Midnight |
| 1271 | Who is Prince Vladimir Tepes better known as? | Dracula |
| 1272 | Marvin Lee Aaday Is The Real Name Of Which Rock Star Who Also Appeared As Eddie The Ex Delievery Boy In The Movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Meatloaf |
| 1273 | Which doctor offered good advice in When Youre In Love With A Beautiful Woman? | Dr Hook |
| 1274 | With Which Ship Did Francis Drake Circumnavigate The World? | The Pelican, Renamed The Golden Hind After Clearing Cape Horn |
| 1275 | Who Preceded Harold Wilson As Prime Minister? | Sir Alec Douglas Home |
| 1276 | What year was Margaret Thatcher elected British Prime Minister? | 1979 |
| 1277 | What pope died 33 days after his election | John paul i |
| 1278 | His ship was the H.M.S. Beagle. | Charles Darwin |
| 1279 | 1957 and the first artificial satellite to be launched into space (by the Soviet Union) had what name | Sputnik 1 |
| 1280 | In 1962, for what did Britain and France sign an agreement to build together? | Concorde |
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| 1281 | Which English Silver Coin, Worth Four Pennies, Was Taken Out Of Circulation In The 17th Century? | The Groat |
| 1282 | In which 1970's films does Dustin Hoffman play the following characters ' Carl Bernstein '? | All the Presidents Men |
| 1283 | The ______ Tea Party? | Boston |
| 1284 | Who Was The First Us President To Take Up Residence In The Whitehouse | John Adams |
| 1285 | Which city is believed to be the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth? | Bethlehem |
| 1286 | What 'SN' Do You Call An American Holy Man Who's Strapped For Cash | Saint Nickle-Less |
| 1287 | What Country Is Dracula Said To Come From | Transylvania |
| 1288 | Whose Death In 1965 Prompted President Johnson That All American Flags The World Over Be Flown At Half Mast A Mark Of Respect Never Before Accorded To A Foreigner | Winston Churchill |
| 1289 | Which Singer Was 'Driving Home For Christmas'' In 1988 | Chris Rea |
| 1290 | Is an icicle a Stalagmite or a Stalagtite | Stalagtite |
| 1291 | At which hospital was the first British Heart Transplant operation performed in 1979? | Papworth, Cambridge |
| 1292 | Who ordered the persecution of the Christians in which Peter and Paul died? | Nero |
| 1293 | Which Founder Of The Organisation For Afro American Unity Was Murdered In Harlem On 21 February 1965 | Malcolm X |
| 1294 | Who was the most famous leader of the Carthagenians? | Hannibal |
| 1295 | How many gloves did Michael Jackson wear? | One |
| 1296 | What did Napoleon have built to commemorate his victories? | Arc de Triomphe |
| 1297 | In Which 1984 Film, Did A Young Man Called Zach, Receive A Mogwai For Christmas | Gremlins |
| 1298 | Which American Gangster was shot dead outside a Chicago cinema in July 1934? | John Dillenger |
| 1299 | What did Harry Potter get for Christmas in his first semester at Hogwarts School? | An Invisibility Cloak |
| 1300 | Which U.S. President _banned _ Christmas trees from the White House because he believed cutting them harmed the environment? | Theodore Roosevelt |
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| 1301 | From what country did the U.S. buy the Virgin Islands | Denmark |
| 1302 | Which notorious murderer, hanged in July 1953, had his story told in the film _Ten Rillington Place_ | John Reginald Christie |
| 1303 | What actor was killed in a car crash on the way to participate in a sports car race? | James Dean |
| 1304 | Which of Santa's reindeers shares its name with a mythological God of Love | Cupid |
| 1305 | Where were the ancient script of Linear A and Linear B found ? | Crete |
| 1306 | In What Year Did World War I Begin | 1914 |
| 1307 | This U.S. Secretary of State won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 | Kissinger |
| 1308 | Who Formed The First Labour Goverment? | Ramsey MacDonald 1924 |
| 1309 | Who Played The Title Role In The Abdomibale Dr Phibes | Vincent Price |
| 1310 | Who was the instigator of the breakaway World Series Cricket in 1977? | Kerry Packer |
| 1311 | Who Released The 70's Album Entitled 461 Ocean Boulevard | Eric Clapton |
| 1312 | He was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn. | General custer |
| 1313 | What Was The Duchess Of Windsor's Name Before She Married The Duke? | Wallace Simpson |
| 1314 | What was the challanging method of catching a fly in Karate Kid? | Using chopsticks |
| 1315 | What year was the great drought in Britain? | 1976 |
| 1316 | Which Was The Only Song To Spend 6 Weeks As a UK No.1 In 1979 It Also Featured In A 1978 Movie | Bright Eyes |
| 1317 | Nikolai Caucescau, was executed on Christmas Day 1989, in which former Communist country was he President | Romania |
| 1318 | Elvis Presley Died On August 16th 1977 But Where EXACTLY Was He When He Died | On The Toilet |
| 1319 | Which Series Of Films Features A Habitual Killer Called Michael Myers | Halloween |
| 1320 | He is said to have fiddled while Rome burned. | Nero |
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| 1321 | Who Had An 80's Hit With The Song 'Kiss On My List', | Hall and Oates |
| 1322 | What Was Julie Christie's Home Town A=Bradford, B= Birmingham, C=Bath | B= Birmingham |
| 1323 | Who invented the aerosol? | Erik Rotheim |
| 1324 | The following is a line from which 1970's film 'You Came In That Thing, You're braver than I Thought' ? | Star Wars |
| 1325 | In Which Year Did Abba Win The Eurovision Song Contest | 1974 |
| 1326 | Name the first black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule. | Haiti |
| 1327 | In 1954 the Salk vaccine was introduced - a vaccine which effectively wiped out which devastating disease | Polio |
| 1328 | How Many Ships Came Sailing In On Christmas Day | Three |
| 1329 | A German tradition is to hide a certain food in a Christmas tree, and the first one to find it gets a special gift. What is the certain food they hide? | A Pickle |
| 1330 | Who Directed The Original Halloween Movie | John Carpenter |
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