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21. Which countryclaims more practising Christians than any other in the<br />

World?<br />

USA<br />

22. Which future Toryleader did Ann Widdecombe claim had: 'something of the<br />

night'?<br />

Michael Howard<br />

23. What did Cliff Richard say were starting to droop due to his use of botox?<br />

His eyebrows<br />

24. Which was the first <strong>UK</strong> supermarket to supply the morning after pill free-ofcharge<br />

to teenagers?<br />

Tesco<br />

25. Who won the Booker prize with 'The Blind Assassin'?<br />

Margaret Atwood<br />

26. Who escaped a prison sentence following drugscharges in 1977 after a<br />

blind girl said he got her safely home after a Rolling Stones concert?<br />

Keith Richards<br />

27. Which future reviled politician was the only private soldier to rise through<br />

the ranks to brigadier in World War II?<br />

Enoch Powell<br />

28. What is the entire text of John chapter 11, verse 35?<br />

Jesus Wept<br />

29. What was Britain’s most popular girl's name from 1997 to 2000?<br />

Chloe<br />

30. Which continent has no active volcanoes?<br />

Australia<br />

31. Which country, known as the Roof of Africa, boasts the highest -lowest<br />

Point of any country on earth?<br />

Lesotho - In the eastern corner of Lesotho the Drakensberg Mountains rear up<br />

to form amountain wilderness known as "The Roof of Africa".<br />

32. What four words did Herve Villechaize screech at the start of every<br />

'Fantasy Island'?<br />

The Plane, The Plane<br />

33. What was ruled out of bounds to tourists for safety reasons in 1990,<br />

the first time it had been closed since around 1275?<br />

The Leaning Tower of Pisa<br />

34. Who met Sir Vivian Fuchs at the South Pole in 1957?<br />

Sir Edmund Hillary (or Penguins!)<br />

35. Who announced in 2000 that she was to drop 'art' and bed herself as a<br />

writer?<br />

Tracey Emin<br />

36. What title of aHarold Brighouse 1915 play entered the English<br />

Language to mean a'choice of taking the thing offered or nothing'?<br />

Hobson's Choice<br />

37. What do restaurants in China temptingly advertise as 'fragrant<br />

meat’?<br />

Dog<br />

38. What major aid to navigation did Yorkshireman John Harrison invent to<br />

win a20,000 prize?<br />

The chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for<br />

navigational purposes<br />

39. What had never been mentioned in the athletes' oath until the 2000<br />

Olympics?<br />

Drugs<br />

40. Why would a phobatriviaphobe fear this question?<br />

It's a fear of trivia about phobias

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