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1. What is the world's tallest mammal, which reaches a height of 18 feet?
2. What is the name of the first book of the Old Testament in the Bible?
3. Name the world's largest island that is not also a continent, lying mostly within the Arctic Circle.
4. What is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands?
5. Name the dark-grey, soft crystalline form of carbon used in pencils.
6. Who is the Philistine whom David killed with a slingshot, hitting him between the eyes with a stone?
7. This most popular aquarium fish was originally found in China. This freshwater carp is plain and brownish in the wild, but selective breeding has produced a variety of colours - what is it?
8. This creature has problems visually attracting mates in long grass so they use sound signals as high frequency mating calls. Which of these scrapes a row of protruding pegs on the inside of each back leg against hardened ridges on their forewings?
9. In Greek mythology these three monsters had gold wings and snakes for hair. Who turned anyone who looked directly at them into stone?
10. Name the diagram representing a relationship between numbers or quantities by means of a series of dots or lines plotted with reference to a set of axes.
11. Name the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia who allegedly rode naked through the streets of Coventry, England in 1040 to persuade her husband to reduce the burden of taxation. Lady ... ?
12. What type of lizard, native to warm regions of the world, owes its remarkable climbing ability to minute hooks on its feet?
13. This freshwater lake in North Israel is fed by the River Jordan (and also drained by the River Jordan). It is also known as Lake Tiberius or Yam Kinneret. Sea of ... ?
14. Who was King Arthur's queen in Arthurian legend?
15. What green hairy fruit is excellent for bottling, jam and pies?
16. What is the name of the small burrowing rodent of North and Central America that lives underground?
17. What term was adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986 to express his more liberal social policy? It is Russian for openness.
18. What is the crocodilian, native to India, which has a long, narrow snout and feeds almost exclusively on fish?
19. This male vocalist from Guyana had hit records with 'Electric Avenue', 'I Don't Wanna Dance' and 'Gimme Hope Jo'anna'. Eddy ... ?
20. Picasso's masterpiece painting was based on the bombing of which Spanish town by German aircraft during the Spanish Civil War?
21. This artist abandoned the Impressionist style of painting. He moved to Tahiti in 1891 where he believed he became one with nature and lived in the South Pacific until his death in 1903. What is his name?
22. Formerly an animator and member of the 'Monty Python' comedy team, this film director exercised his free-wheeling imagination to become one of cinema's most fertile fantasists. What was Terry's surname?
23. Name the Southern supercontinent which began to break away from the single land mass Pangaea about 200 million years ago. It eventually became South America, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica.
24. Which island, the largest of those in the country of the Solomon Islands, was the scene of heavy fighting between Japanese and American troops in World War Two?
25. This country became independent from France in 1958. It has three vertical colours on its flag. The red represents work, the yellow is justice and the green is for solidarity. Name the country?
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