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1. What does the acronym DNF stand for?
2. What is the name of the evil wizard who pursues the Smurfs?
3. What species once called the spiny anteater is the most widespread native mammal in Australia?
4. Who replaced David Lee Roth as the lead singer of Van Halen?
5. What is Europe’s longest river?
at an historical reenactment from the 18th century in Lublin, Poland.
6. How many days are there in the last three months of the Western calendar year?
7. What is Spike Milligan’s first name?
8. “The Bowery” is a street in which US city?
9. The North German Federation together with Bavaria and other southern German states fought which other country in 1870?
10. Who was the first left handed golfer to win one of the four majors?
11. Which part of the body would be treated if a patient was suffering from myopia?
12. The Roland-Garros major tennis tournament is played in which country?
13. In 1955 what is the only thing that can produce the energy needed to kick-start the flux capacitor in Back To The Future?
14. What does a seismologist study?
15. Which sea does the Gaza Strip border?
16. What is golfer Tiger Woods’ birth name?
17. A book by Ernest Hemingway is “The Snows of … ” where?
18. Which European capital is on the River Spree?
19. The phrase “Crossing the Rubicon” is associated with which historical figure?
20. In which form of fencing contest do the competitors wear a sleeveless lamé?
Bonus question: What is the first name of inventor Dyson, who invented his own brand of vacuum cleaner? Answer in Quiz #38.
and was put there after a natural phenomenon that is the study of a seismologist (Q14).
Answers: 1. Did Not Finish 2.Gargamel 3.A short beaked echidna 4.Sammy Hagar 5.Volga 6.92 days 7.Terence 8.New York 9.France 10.Bob Charles 11.Eyes 12.France 13.A bolt of lightning 14.Earthquakes 15.Mediterranean Sea 16.Eldrik Woods 17.Kilimanjaro 18.Berlin 19.Julius Caesar 20.Foil.
Bonus question answer (from Quiz #36): Ned Madrell, who died in 1974 was the last surviving native speaker of the language Manx (Manx Gaelic)
