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1. Concerning the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan in 2021, what is the significance of the designations C-5 and C-17?
2. In June 1912 Heinrich Kubis, the world's first flight attendant, survived the fire and destruction of the Zeppelin Schwaben near Dusseldorf. In 1937 Kubis survived the fire and destruction of which Zeppelin in New Jersey?
3. What is a ship's diary called?
4. In what sort of facility would one likely find a large sign reading "Arbeit macht frei"?
5. If you add the number of miles in a marathon (rounded to the nearest whole number) to the number of pawns in a game of chess, you get the answer to life (according to Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"). What number is this?
6. What term refers to both the keratin at the end of the lateral digits and reduced-size versions of pictures?
7. What is the verbal connection between the following words: range, force, at?
8. What is defined as "231 cubic inches and is equal to exactly 3.785411784 litres or about 0.133680555 cubic feet"?
9. What farm animal links a large tree beloved of school children called Aesculus hippocastanum, an eye-watering culinary plant called Armoracia rusticana, and a big, tasty fungus called Agaricus arvensis?
10. An Australian TV ad asked us to "wrap your laughing gear 'round a Pauls Billabong". How does that translate into 'conventional' English?
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