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1. “Wort” is a product of what food process?
2. Which Winter Olympics sport does not feature a women’s event?
3. What caused much of Lisbon, Portugal, to be destroyed in 1531 and again in 1755?

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4. What was the stage name of Brenda Mae Tarpley, an American singer of rockabilly, pop and country music?
5. Who brokered the agreement in 2021 by finance ministers of the G7 nations to set a universal minimum tax rate for corporations?
6. Gout traditionally starts in what part of the body?
7. The King and I is set in a country now known as what?
8. Who owns the Android mobile operating system?
9. Roughly how long was the original Thriller video?
10. What is the only month in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
11. “Die Fledermaus” is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II. What is a “fledermaus”?
12. The term “checkmate” is based on a phrase from which language?
13. Lake Titicaca is in which mountain range?
14. In the expression “spill the beans” what are the “beans”?
15. Which English monarch appeared on the first postage stamp?
16. What was the profession of Paul Bunyan?
17. Grand Marnier is flavoured with what?
18. Fill in the quote attributed to Jesus-He that is without sin among you, let him cast a….. at her?
19. Which card would be removed from the deck to play Old Maid?
20. From Braveheart-They may take our lives but they’ll never take our ……?
Bonus question: Under what country’s banner were two teams entered in the 1904 Olympics in the same sport? Answer in Quiz 20.

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Answers: 1.Brewing beer or whiskey 2.Nordic combined 3.Earthquake 4.Brenda Lee 5.Rishi Sunak, UK 6.Big toe 7.Thailand 8.Google 9.14 minutes 10.November 11.Bat 12.Persian 13.The Andes 14.Information 15.Queen Victoria 16.Lumberjack 17.Orange 18.Stone 19.Queens 20.Freedom
Bonus question answer (from Quiz 18): The sport that Aladar Grevich (Hungary) competed in to win gold medals in 1932 and 1960 was fencing.


