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What language is the primary source of the word "parallel"?

posted Apr 9

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A constellation whose three main bright stars are called, sometimes, the Three Maries, the Three Kings, or Hap.........

posted Mar 15

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What sporting event is 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards)?

posted Feb 19

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When the US swimmer Michael Phelps became the youngest male at the time to break a world record in swimming........

posted Jan 15

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A nectarine is a shiny-skinned variety of what?

posted Dec 27, 2023

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Until 2022 the only boycott of a Winter Olympics was at which Games?

posted Dec 6, 2023

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It was formed in 1885 by members of the Theosophical Society, was a major force in the Indian independence movement.....

posted Nov 20, 2023

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When was the scourge known in England as the "harrying of the north" carried out?

posted Oct 17, 2023

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What characterises a codex?

posted Sep 28, 2023

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Elizabeth II is (in August 2022) the Queen regnant of how many independent sovereign states known informally............

posted Sep 5, 2023

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What life forms have a medusa state as part of their life cycle?

posted Aug 1, 2023

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The Richter scale was used to measure the magnitude of what?

posted Jul 14, 2023

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What was the popular name for Joseph Stalin by Americans during World War II?

posted Jun 28, 2023

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Who wrote the book "The Prince and the Pauper"?

posted Jun 8, 2023

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What was worn in the 19th century in the west by women to give shape to the lower back?

posted May 22, 2023

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Where did Scottish patriot William Wallace lead soldiers to a defeat of the English in 1297?

posted May 3, 2023

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What is a small ceramic dish used for baking an individual portion?

posted Mar 30, 2023

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The highly popular sport of skydiving started with what?

posted Mar 10, 2023

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Piggyback, fireman's, and Estonian-style are holds in what sport with Championships in North America, Finland.......

posted Feb 15, 2023

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The Imperial House of Japan shows 126 monarchs in unbroken line, beginning with the legendary Emperor Jimmu.............

posted Jan 27, 2023

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Before they launched as Cirque du Soleil in 1984, they were a street theatre group in Baie-Saint-Paul, near Québec......

posted Jan 9, 2023

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Football athlete, broadcaster and actor, O.J. Simpson, ran in the Torch Relay for which Olympic Games?

posted Dec 22, 2022

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The French novelist, polemicist and physician Louis Ferdinand Destouches (1894 - 1961, pen-name Louis.........

posted Dec 6, 2022

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When was the first modern Olympic Games scheduled to be held in an Asian country?

posted Nov 18, 2022

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What date is "Singles' Day" in China?

posted Nov 2, 2022

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The Mason-Dixon line, which came to symbolise the cultural boundary between the Northern and Southern United States.....

posted Oct 3, 2022

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What numbers are on the two orange pool balls?

posted Sep 15, 2022

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When his Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died on 9 April 2021, what happened to his title as Duke?

posted Aug 29, 2022

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By what name is actor William Pratt better known?

posted Aug 9, 2022

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In which country is the city of Kandahar?

posted Jul 21, 2022

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Of the 29 letters in the Turkish alphabet, how many are vowels?

posted Jul 6, 2022

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In October 2018 a tomos was signed, and then formalised three months later in Istanbul, to do what?

posted Jun 21, 2022

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Which battle was partly fought on Senlac Hill?

posted Jun 4, 2022

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What was the aim of the 1984 Mexico Declaration by the National Olympic Committees?

posted May 16, 2022

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In what field is or was the art of Ralph Steadman, Thomas Nast, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson usually expressed?

posted May 2, 2022

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Which strategy game uses a hexagonal board representing an island which settlers (the players) aim to settle?

posted Apr 13, 2022

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In the UK during the First World War, what did "Dora" mean?

posted Mar 29, 2022

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What is the name for the pieces of wood that sit on top of cricket wickets?

posted Mar 14, 2022

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What do "cruciverbalists" do?

posted Feb 23, 2022

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Where are macons and cleavers used?

posted Jan 20, 2022

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Sudden aphasia is often a symptom of what?

posted Jan 4, 2022

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Which musical instrument was brought to international attention by its use to signify one of the characters.............

posted Dec 17, 2021

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When did the UK first open negotiations to join what became the European Union?

posted Nov 30, 2021

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What did Basutoland change its name to in 1966?

posted Nov 12, 2021

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin started what computer application?

posted Oct 25, 2021

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Which movement was begun in 1909 by Richard Schirrmann, a German schoolteacher, and Wilhelm Münker, a conservationist?

posted Oct 7, 2021

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A coherer, hot wire barretter and cat's whisker were all types of what?

posted Sep 21, 2021

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Alfred Brendel is mostly associated with what instrument?

posted Aug 31, 2021

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Which Indonesian volcano erupted in October / November 2010, forcing 70,000 people from their homes?

posted Aug 11, 2021

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Formaggio marcio is notable for containing what?

posted Jul 26, 2021

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