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Question: What does a lepidopterist collect?

Answer: Butterflies (and moths)

Question: Which singer was known as the 'Forces' Sweetheart'?

Answer: Which singer was known as the 'Forces' Sweetheart'?

Question: What product was the first to appear in a UK TV commercial (in 1955)?

Answer: Toothpaste (Gibbs SR)

Question: What flavour is the liqueur cassis?

Answer: Blackcurrant

Question: What was Tom Jones' first UK number one single?

Answer: It's Not Unusual

Question: In which country was ex-England cricket captain Tony Greig born?

Answer: South Africa

Question: Who wrote the novel, Treasure Island?

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Question: What does OPEC stand for?

Answer: Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Question: Nephritis is the inflamation of which part of the body?

Answer: Kidneys

Question: In 1960 which country had the first ever woman prime minister?

Answer: (Ceylon) Sri Lanka (Sirimavo Bandaranaike)

Question: What acid is associated with muscles in the body experiencing lack of oxygen?

Answer: Lactic acid

Question: Who sang the theme tune to the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies?

Answer: Sheryl Crow

Question: Eugene the Jeep featured in which comic strip?

Answer: Popeye

Question: Kulfi is a type of which Indian food?

Answer: Ice-cream

Question: Who discovered penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming (1928)

Question: What is the collective name for a group of beavers?

Answer: Colony

Question: In which English county is the ancient monument Stonehenge?

Answer: Wiltshire

Question: Who is the Roman god of fire?

Answer: Vulcan

Question: Which band released an album entitled Wish You Were Here?

Answer: Pink Floyd

Question: What does an acrophobic fear?

Answer: Heights

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