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| Trebbia, Trasimene and Cannae are among the military victories of which commander of antiquity? Born in 247 BC, his name means 'the grace of the god Baal'. | |
| Whirligig, bombardier and minotaur are all types of insects belonging to which order, the largest order in number of species in the animal and plant kingdoms? | |
| Having its origins in Moscow in the early twentieth century, 'habimah', meaning 'the stage', became, in the 1950s, the national theatre of which country? | |
| 'Parerga and Paralipomena' and 'The World as Will and Idea' are works by which German philosopher, born in Danzig in 1788? | |
| The 2005 Ang Lee film 'Brokeback Mountain' is based on a short story by which American writer, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her second novel, 'The Shipping News'? | |
| Which planet is principally made of iron, but shares its name with that of a different metal? | |
| The concept of 'élan vital' or 'vital principle' is associated with which philosopher, born in Paris in 1859? | |
| Which English king is often known as the last of the Angevin kings because he lost Anjou in 1204? | |
| The Bordeaux wine entre-deux-mers is so called because it is grown between which two rivers? | |
| If a particle of mass 15 kilograms undergoes a constant force of 165 Newtons, what is its acceleration? | |
| What is the relative molecular mass of calcium carbonate, that is, CaCO3? | |
| The word 'lusophone' describes a speaker of the language of which country, now covering roughly the same area as the Roman province of Lusitania? | |
| Established with a base value of 500 in January 1980, the 'All Ordinaries Index', or 'All Ords', is the major stock price index in which Commonwealth country? | |
| On the MHO scale of hardness of minerals, which value is given to quartz? | |
| What name is given to the outermost layer of a planet's atmosphere? | |
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| What architectural term for a diagonal rib of a vault or a pointed arch or window is also used in statistics for a graph representing cumulative frequency? | |
| Which city between Milan and Bologna gives its name both to a delicate dry-cured ham and to a hard, dry cheese? | |
| During the Second World War, three capitals of belligerent European states were never occupied by force: name any two of them. | |
| Give the single word that completes this proverb, said to occur in various languages: 'Experience is a comb that nature gives to men when they are..' what? | |
| The medical condition known as Hyponatremia denotes abnormally low levels of what substance in the body? | |
| In Britain and its colonies, September 1752 was the shortest month of the millennium for what reason? | |
| In chemistry, what is the maximum number of hydrogen atoms which can combine with an atom of carbon? | |
| Powdered calcium sulphate hemi-hydrate, obtained by heating gypsum, is commonly known by what three-word name, both in medicine and in building? | |
| What term, particularly used for the streamlined outer casing of an aircraft engine, is derived from the French for 'little ship'? | |
| Used in the making of films such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, for what do the letters CGI stand? | |
| Based on research at Oxford University, a study done in 2009 suggested that the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder might be aided by the playing of which computer game? | |
| Expressed as the negative logarithm of the hydrogen-ion concentration in a solution, how is the 'pondus hydrogenii' or the power or potential of hydrogen more commonly known? | |
| What is the radius of a sphere whose volume-to-surface area ratio is one unit? | |
| From a late Latin word meaning 'womb', what term denotes a rectangular array of elements, or the rock material in which fossils are embedded? | |
| 'Someone who leaves no turn unstoned' was George Bernard Shaw's description of member's of what profession? | |
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