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1. What are the names of Wendy's two younger brothers in Disney's Peter Pan (1953)?
2. Where was Shakira Caine, the wife of actor Michael Caine for 23 years, born and brought up?
3. Chaetophobia is the fear of ... ?
4. What was the middle name of Lady Diana Spencer who married Prince Charles in 1981?
5. Which American president was shot in 1901 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later?
6. What profession was African Nationalist leader Nelson Mandela successful at in Johannesburg before joining the banned African National Congress (ANC) in 1944?
7. On May 1st, 1997 Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain ending how many years of Conservative government?
8. The Ashdown Forest in Sussex, England, became the setting for which series of stories?
9. How many rooms are there in the board game Cluedo?
10. Albert Einstein was born in Bavaria in 1879. In what year did he die?
11. Winston Churchill married Clementine in 1908 but what was her maiden name?
12. What was the name of the first vessel, a steamship, to officially use the Panama Canal when completed on November 17th, 1913?
13. Dag Hammarskjold was the son of the Prime Minister of Sweden (1914-1917) and later the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, but where was he born?
14. What was the maiden name of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee, whom King Edward VIII abandoned the English throne for in 1936?
15. In which Indian city was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by a Hindu fanatic on January 30th, 1948?
16. In the English Grand National at Aintree which fences are not jumped twice?
17. Cleopatra had affairs with two of Rome's most powerful leaders, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony but what was her official name?
18. John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope to be elected in 1978 since ... ?
19. Viscountess Nancy Astor who became the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in Britain was born Nancy ... Langhorne?
20. For the first time using the internet in May 1996, the FBI captured one of the ten most wanted fugitives, a convicted bank robber. What was his name?
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