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31/07/2017 |
First 15 United States |
15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter. Each answer contains consecutively the first three letters of one of the first 15 US States in order of admission to the union (ignoring the words ‘New’, ‘North’ & ‘South’). Make your choice. |
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Classical music |
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(George Frideric) Handel (Water Music) DELAWARE |
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Lewis Carroll |
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In Through the Looking-Glass what is recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice? |
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(The poem:) The Walrus and the Carpenter PENNSYLVANIA |
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1970s pop groups |
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Which 1970s group, fronted by Ray Dorset, had a name inspired by a poem from T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats? |
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Mungo Jerry (the poem was called Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer) NEW JERSEY |
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Dice |
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Using these special dice what was designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974?
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Dungeons and Dragons GEORGIA |
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British mountains |
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Pen y Fan is the highest point of which range of mountains? |
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Brecon Beacons CONNECTICUT |
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Island capitals |
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Which country has its capital on the island of New Providence? |
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The Bahamas MASSACHUSETTS or NEW HAMPSHIRE |
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Mystery voice |
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Mark Lamarr (introducing the first ever edition of Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 1996) MARYLAND |
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Musicals |
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Carousel (Shirley Jones singing If I Loved You) SOUTH CAROLINA or NORTH CAROLINA |
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Football |
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Which British football club is nicknamed The Millers? |
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Rotherham United NEW HAMPSHIRE |
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UK Government |
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As of June 2017 what Government post is held by Michael Gove? |
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Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (or Environment Secretary) VIRGINIA |
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Theatre |
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Which well-known play opens in the nursery of Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya’s ancestral estate, somewhere in the provinces of Russia just after the turn of the 20th Century? |
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The Cherry Orchard (by Anton Chekhov) NEW YORK |
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The Guardian |
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Who wrote the following sentence which was famously published on the back page of the Guardian in January 2001: “Poetical scene with surprisingly chaste Lord Archer vegetating”? |
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Araucaria (aka John Graham, the Crossword compiler; ‘chaste Lord Archer vegetating’ is an anagram of ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester’ the home of the poet Rupert Brooke. At the time Lord Archer was hiding away there after a celebrated sex scandal) NORTH CAROLINA or SOUTH CAROLINA |
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Fashion |
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Who designed these dresses?
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Zandra Rhodes RHODE ISLAND |
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Mayors |
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Who is this Labour party politician who was elected Mayor of the Liverpool City Region in 2017?
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Steve Rotheram VERMONT |
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1960s albums |
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Bookends (America by Simon & Garfunkel) KENTUCKY |
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