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Which vegetable has pearl and Spanish varieties?

      19 Which 1990s interior design show was presented by Carol Smillie from 1996 to 2003?

      20 Which musical instruction means “very quickly”?

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      1 What is the tallest living mammal?

      2 Which animal is known as “the ship of the desert”?

      3 What name is given to a badger’s burrow?

      4 Is a carp a freshwater or sea fish?

      5 What term is given to animals that eat food of both plant and animal origin?

      6 Which bird shares its name with a chess piece?

      7 What is a young hare called?

      8 Which seabird is traditionally thought to bring bad luck to sailors?

      9 The capybara is native to which continent?

      10 Threshers and hammerheads are types of what?

      11 What type of creature is a devil’s coach-horse?

      12 Which is the largest living land mammal?

      13 Which bird has long-eared, snowy and barn species?

      14 A copperhead is what type of creature?

      15 What is the alternative name for the viper?

      16 Which spotted cat, related to the leopard, is the largest big cat in the Americas?

      17 Are polar bears found in the Arctic or Antarctic?

      18 Which sea mammal has bottlenose, short-beaked and spinner species?

      19 A drey is home to which animal?

      20 Which insect lives in an organised colony known as a formicary?

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      1 In which room in a church are the ceremonial robes housed?

      2 Who succeeded James I (James VI of Scotland) as king of England, Ireland and Scotland?

      3 What term is given to the introduction of a poem or play?

      4 Who captained the 2012 European Ryder Cup team?

      5 What did the Fairy Godmother use to create Cinderella’s coach?

      6 Which name represents “C” in the radio phonetic alphabet?

      7 Who played Wonder Woman in the 1970s TV series?

      8 What is the study of the mind called?

      9 What is another name for ascorbic acid?

      10 Which 15th-century Florentine politician and writer’s name is synonymous with devious ambitiousness?

      11 Which peninsula lies between the Mersey and Dee estuaries?

      12 King Edward is a variety of which vegetable?

      13 What branch of medicine is concerned with resistance to disease?

      14 Who wrote the 1970 song Big Yellow Taxi?

      15 Which group had a hit in 1995 with Wonderwall?

      16 In which country is the ancient city of Petra?

      17 What is the location of Kubla Khan’s pleasure dome in Coleridge’s famous poem?

      18 Who starred in the 1990 film Home Alone?

      19 What name was given to a rioting machine-wrecker of the early 19th century?

      20 What is the term for the pointed front part of a ship’s bow?

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      1 What type of bicycle is designed for two riders?

      2 Which car manufacturer has a rampant horse for its logo?

      3 In the tyre pressure measure PSI, what does the “I” stand for?

      4 Which group had a hit with Car Wash in 1976?

      5 What term is given to the cheapest accommodation on a ship?

      6 Which liquid is put into car batteries?

      7 Gondolas are associated with which city?

      8 Which classic car caper film was remade in 2003?

      9 Who wrote the novel Trainspotting?

      10 What is the French term applied to a two-door car with a sloping rear?

      11 Who directed the 1951 thriller Strangers on a Train?

      12 How many horses pull a troika?

      13 Which US city has the only cable car system to still be operated manually?

      14 Who was the Scottish inventor of the pneumatic bicycle tyre?

      15 What three-masted ship was used by Spanish and Portuguese traders in the 15th and 16th centuries?

      16 Which company launched a rocket with a car attached to it in February 2018?

      17 Who wrote the novel Three Men in a Boat?

      18 On which famous train did Dame Agatha Christie set one of her novels?

      19 Which small car was designed by Sir Alec Issigonis?

      20 Queen released Bicycle Race as a double A-side single with which other song?

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