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6 What do you acquire if you kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland? 6
7 Who was the Egyptian God of the sun? 7
8 Who killed Gorgon Medusa? 8
9 What was the name of the one eyed giant in Greek Mythology? 9
10 In the 1976 film Robin & Marion. Sean Connery played Robin, who
played Marion?
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AVIATION
1 Who made the world’s first military aeroplane? 1
2 In what year did the world’s first passenger service begin? 2
3 Which country first flew a jet aircraft? 3
4 What type of business did Wilbur and Oliver Wright run prior to
aeroplanes?
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5 In inches, how long did Concorde spread whilst flying supersonic? 5
6 What year was Concorde’s last commercial flight? 6
7 What does the abbreviated A.T.C stand for? 7
8 In what year did the Montolier brothers fly over Paris? 8
9 What was Frenchman Paul Cornu first to do in 1907? 9
10 Which restored aircraft was flying again this year? It first flew in 1957. 10
MUSIC
1 Which released Queen anthem topped the Christmas charts in 1991? 1
2 “Don’t you want me” was the title of whose 1981 Christmas number 1? 2
3 Which duo recorded the 1982 Christmas number 1 “Save Your Love”? 3
4 What was Jackie Wilson’s posthumous number 1 at Christmas 1986? 4
5 The Christmas classic “Merry Xmas Everybody” was a 1973 number 1
for which group?
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6 What was the first ever Christmas number 1 in the charts of 1952? 6
7 Who took “Christmas Alphabet” to number 1 in 1956? 7
8 What was the title of the first Christmas number 1 for the Spice Girls? 8
9 Which Christmas number 1 contains the words “Throw your arms
around the World at Christmas time”?
10 What are the Two Little Boys called in Rolf Harris’s 1969 Christmas
number 1?
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!