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| 7 November 2017 |
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This week's questions are from those written for the third week of the 2017–18 season in Macclesfield Quiz League, by the British Flag.
| Which famous British artist is sometimes said to have had himself tied to the mast of a ship so that he could paint a storm? |
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J. M. W. Turner |
| Which 1997 film stars Mel Gibson as a taxi driver with some eccentric views, and Julia Roberts as the government lawyer who becomes involved in his life? |
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Conspiracy Theory |
| Which team won Rugby League's 2017 Super League Grand Final? |
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Leeds Rhinos |
| Which famous sporting trophy has three king cobras as handles, and an elephant on the top? |
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The Calcutta Top |
| Name one of the four children, apart from the title character (Charlie Bucket) who, in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, have found a golden ticket in a Wonka Bar and so won a tour of the factory. |
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Augustus Gloop |
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Veruca Salt | |
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Violet Beauregarde | |
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Mike Teavee | |
| At which English Test cricket ground is the Radcliffe Road End? |
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Trent Bridge (Nottingham) |
| Who scored the first hat–trick in the English Premier League – in his team's fourth game of the inaugural Premier League season – for Leeds United in a 5–0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur on 25 August 1992? |
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Eric Cantona |
| Who will captain the Europe team at the 2018 Ryder Cup? |
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Thomas Bjorn |
| Who will captain the USA team at the 2018 Ryder Cup? |
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Jim Furyk |
| Which city has been chosen to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games (on the centenary of its previous staging)? |
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Paris |
| Which city has been chosen to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games (just 40 years after its previous staging)? |
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Los Angeles |
| Which naturally occurring volcanic glass, usually black or dark in colour, is named after an ancient Roman explorer who was said by Pliny to have discovered it in Ethiopia? |
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Obsidian |
| Who died on 5 December 5 2013, the same day as a Royal Performance in London (the UK premier) of a film about his life? |
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Nelson Mandela |
| Who will take over from Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who's 2017 Christmas special, to become the first female Doctor? |
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Jodie Whittaker |
| Which 1962 film about the D–Day landings – based on the book of the same title by Cornelius Ryan – claimed a cast of "42 international stars"? |
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The Longest Day |
| Completed in 1800, what is the best–known work of the Irish–born architect James Hoban? |
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The White House |
| Henry John Heinz formed his first company in 1869, to make and market what food product? |
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Horseradish sauce |
| During which conflict is Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace set? |
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The Napoleonic Wars |
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