The adjective 'vespine' is used to describe which creature?
Wasp
What was the full name given on Marilyn Monroe's birth certificate?
Norma Jean Mortenson
She was later baptised as Norma Jean Baker
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Guitar
The Battle of the Bulge took place in which war?
World War II
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Which of these distances is the longest?
- 1 mile
- 100,000 cm
- 2km or 2000 yards
2km
if all others turned into miles - 100,000cm = 0.62miles, 2km= 1.24miles and 2000 yards= 1.14 miles
Whose gravestone carries the epitaph 'I told you I was ill.'?
Spike Milligan
What was the name of the first car that the Ford Motor Company made available to the public?
Ford Model T
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In astrology, which 3 signs of the zodiac are known as 'air signs'?
Aquarius, Libra and Gemini
Tags: Zodiac,By what name is the activity Funambulism better known as?
Tight Rope Walking
The teddy bear was named after which famous person?
Theodore Roosevelt
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Red and White
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Which British Prime Minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Sir Winston Churchill (1953)
Tags: Nobel Prize, Politics,What has been the most common first name for an American First Lady?
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Truman, Elizabeth Monroe and Elizabeth 'Betty' Ford
In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
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Which philosopher stated 'I think therefore I am'?
Descartes
By what name was Charles I, the King of the Franks (who united most of Western Europe during the early Middle Ages) better known as?
Charlemagne
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By which name was the Wild West outlaw born William McCarty best known as?
Billy the Kid
He also went by the names William H. Bonney, Henry Antrim, Henry McCarty, Kid Antrim, William McCarty
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The Pulitzer Prize is best associated with which profession?
Journalism
Which US President declared "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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How many tiles are there in a game of Scrabble?
100
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From the Greek for all the devils, which name did 17th century English poet John Milton give to the capital city in Hell?
Pandemonium
The flags of which three countries consist of a solid background with a single circle on it?
Bangladesh (green background/red circle), Japan (white background/red circle) and Palau (blue background/yellow circle)
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