Present–day Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Principé, Goa
(India), East Timor and Macau were all formerly colonies of which European country? |
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Portugal |
The Indochinese Union, formed in 1887 and consisting of present–day Vietnam and Cambodia –
joined by Laos from 1893 – was a colony of which European country? |
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France |
Present–day Rwanda and Burundi, then known as Ruanda–Urundi, were ruled from 1922 to 1962 by which European
country? |
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Belgium |
Which modern European country was incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1809, but declared itself independent
following the 1917 Russian Revolution? |
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Finland |
Which modern country gained independence from South Africa in 1990, having been a German colony from 1884 to 1918 and
mandated to the UK, under administration by South Africa, by the League of Nations in 1920? |
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Namibia |
From 1778 to 1968, what is now Equatorial Guinea was a colony of which European country? |
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Spain |
Pride and Perjury, first published in 2003, is a memoir by which disgraced former Conservative cabinet minister? |
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Jonathan Aitken |
Name the vice–captain of the Australian cricket team, who was banned for 12 months in 2018 (along with captain
Steve Smith) after admitting involvement in ball–tampering. |
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David Warner |
The Great North Run (an annual half–marathon) begins in Newcastle–upon–Tyne, and ends in which town? |
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South Shields |
Which famous British sporting venue was founded by Queen Anne in 1711 – near Swinley Bottom, where her hunting
hounds were kennelled? |
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Ascot racecourse |
Which German pharmaceuticals company introduced Aspirin in 1897, but lost the rights to the name? |
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Bayer |
The Hungarian–born British engineer Dennis Gabor won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971, for the invention of
what technique? |
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Holography |
Which is the second smallest of the fifty US states, by area, after Rhode Island? |
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Delaware |
What is the USA's most westerly state capital? |
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Honolulu |
What is Australia's sixth most populous city, and the largest that isn't a state capital? |
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Gold Coast |
Which river gave its name to an Australian state capital? |
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The Brisbane River |
What is South Africa's largest city? |
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Johannesburg |
What's the English translation of Dauphin, the title afforded to the heir to the throne of France? |
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Dolphin |
Who directed the 2012 film Django Unchained? |
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Quentin Tarantino |
What was the last musical for which Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III wrote the music and lyrics? |
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The Sound of Music |
Which word, meaning a slight illness, of mysterious origin, that's easily caught, originates in a 1954 episode of
the Goon Show? |
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Lurgi (lurgy) |
What was the (English) name of the Thai boys' football team whose members were trapped in a cave in June 2018
following sudden and heavy monsoon rainfall? |
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Wild Boars |
'Oscitatio', or 'oscitation', is the medical name for which natural reflex? |
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Yawning |
The ONS is a non–ministerial department of the UK government. What does ONS stand for? |
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Office for National Statistics |
Born in Carmarthen in 1968, why has Adam Price been in the news, in September 2018 and subsequently? |
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He's the new leader of Plaid Cymru |
What did Keith Allen, Alex James and Damien Hirst call themselves when they recorded Vindaloo for the 1998
FIFA World Cup? |
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Fat Les |
Which media personality was named in March 2019 as the youngest dollar billionaire ever, at the age of 21 –
beating Mark Zuckerberg by two years? |
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Kylie Jenner |
Clive Everton, Jack Karnehm and Ted Lowe are (or were) three of the best–known commentators on which sport? |
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Snooker |
Which British racing driver won the Helen Rollason award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards in 2018,
having returned to racing less than a year after having both legs amputated following a high–speed crash in a Formula 4 race in 2017
(aged 17)? |
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Billy Monger |
In which US city does the McDonalds Corporation have its headquarters? |
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Chicago |
Which song, written by the Bee Gees and named after a novel by Ernest Hemingway, was a No. 1 hit in the USA, Canada
and Australia, but only No. 7 in the UK, for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton in 1983? |
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Islands in the Stream |
Produced in the UK for BBC America, and first broadcast in 2018, which television drama series is based on a series of
novellas by Luke Jennings, entitled Codename Villanelle, and developed for television by Phoebe Waller–Bridge? |
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Killing Eve |