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1. In which country would you find Casablanca?
2. In which part of the world would you find a duck-billed platypus?
3. Name the capital city of Australia.
4. Name the fast-growing grass that soon looks like a tall tree.
5. What is the national sport in Brazil?
6. Name the world's longest mountain range.
7. Name Africa's largest country.
8. Baggataway was a ball game played by Canadian Indians which developed into the modern game of ....?
9. The Palio, a famous horse-race, is run in the main square of which Italian city?
10. Which country's blue and white flag represents the country's lakes and snowfields?
11. At which art gallery would you see Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa'?
12. The 'Skeleton Coast' is part of the Namib Desert which acquired its name from ....?
13. By 1914 the whole of Africa had either been colonized or supervised by a European power except which two countries?
14. The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California was the world's longest suspension bridge when it opened in what year?
15. What were the first names of the English painter L.S. Lowry?
16. Alfred Mosher Butts invented the word game Scrabble. He estimated the values of the letters by their occurrence on a single front page of which paper?
17. The only country in South Asia never to be colonized by any European power was ______?
18. What was the first name of the French sculptor Rodin?
19. What was the name of the rocket aircraft which Charles 'Chuck' Yeager had his first supersonic flight over the Mojave desert in California on 14th October 1947?
20. Which of the following elements are actually named for the following countries: Polonium (Poland), Francium (France), Americium (America) and Germanium (Germany)?
21. How long did it take the pilgrims to sail to North America aboard the Mayflower in 1620?
22. In 1896 the English carpenter Brian Gamlin of Bury, Lancashire is credited to the present numbering system of which game?
23. Which element's name was developed from the Greek word for 'Stench'?
24. Which is the only flag of the world to have a different design on the front and the back?
25. At what approximate temperature (degrees celsius) does gold melt?
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