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By which name is the Alsatian dog also known? German Shepherd Which substance, best known as an explosive, is also used to treat heart trouble, such as angina? Nitroglycerin In which British city is Moorfields Eye Hospital? London Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue in New York are chiefly associated with which activity; sport or shopping? Shopping Boy scout leaders are named after characters from which book by Rudyard Kipling? The Jungle Book Which Baltic country is on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland? Republic of Estonia In which European country is the region of Andalusia? Spain Did computer floppy discs get their name because they were originally floppy? Yes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are the first five books of what? The Bible In religion, what "E" is the exclusion of an offender from the rights and privileges of the Roman Catholic Church? What was the real first name of landscape gardener 'Capability' Brown - Tarquin or Lancelot? Lancelot Excommunication What 'H' is the word describing a plant which dies to soil level in winter? Herbaceous What 'T' is a common herbaceous plant of the daisy family, typically with a prickly stem and leaves? According to the nursery rhyme 'Three Blind Mice' which parts of the mice did the farmer's wife cut off? Thistle The human skull usually contains how many bones, eight or twenty-two? Twenty-Two bbc.co.uk/peoplesquiz Tails
Which indoor table game is said to take its name from the French word 'billard' for the game and the cue? Billiards In the plant world does marram grass usually grow on coastal sands or moorland? Coastal Sands What colour is the ripe fruit of a lime tree? Green Which spectacled singer of the 1960s was known as The Big O? Roy Orbison Which Birmingham pop band took their name from an evil character in the science fiction film 'Barbarella'? In World War One, what was Big Bertha? A Gun Duran Duran Who became king at the Restoration in 1660? Charles II Which Russian Tzar was known as Ivan the Terrible, Ivan III or Ivan IV? Ivan IV Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy was famously filmed on location in which country? New Zealand Based at Thames House in London, what is the common name of the counter-espionage branch of the security services? What type of animal is a shark; a mammal or a fish? Fish Lonnie Donegan had a UK hit single in the 1950s with 'Does Your… what Lose Its Flavour, On the Bedpost Overnight'? MI5 Chewing Gum Which dog was sacred in ancient China? Pekingese Gunpowder and nitroglycerine are both types of what? Explosive In which British city is the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital on Gray's Inn Road? London bbc.co.uk/peoplesquiz
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