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Question	Answer	Category
Who Spoke The Only Word In The 1976 Film Silent Movie?	Marcel Marceau French mime artist - said, (Non)	General
What Is The Offspring Of A Male Lion And A Tigress Called (Apart From Very Dangerous)?	Liger	General
What Took Place On Griffin's Wharf In America In 1773?	The Boston Tea Party	General
What Was The Name Of The Ship On Which The Pilgrims Travelled To North America In 1620?	The Mayflower	General
What Was The Name Of The English Farmer Who Invented The Seed-Planting Drill In 1701?	Jethro Tull	General
In Which Year Was Nelson Mandela Released From Prison?	1990	General
What Was The Nationality Of The First Non-Italian Pope Since 1523?	Polish (Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, Pope from 1978-2005)	General
What Was The Name Of The World's First Man-Made Satellite Launched By The Ussr In 1957?	Sputnik I	General
Which Country Gained Its Independence From Denmark In 1944?	Iceland	General
In 1803 Who Started Shipping Portions Of The Sculpted Frieze From The Parthenon In Greece To England?	Lord Elgin (Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin	General
In Which Year Did French Queen Marie Antoinette Go The Guillotine?	1793	General
Which Scottish Athlete Refused To Run On A Sunday At The 1924 Paris Olympic Games?	Eric Liddle (Liddle, 1902-45	General
Who Became Us President After Herbert Hoover?	Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)	General
French King Louis Xiv (1638-1715) Was The Longest Reigning European Monarch - How Long Did He Reign?	72 years (from 1643-1715)	General
Marjorie Robb, Who Died In Boston Usa In 1992 Aged 103, Barbara Dainton, Millvina Dean And Lillian Asplund, Achieved Notoriety For Being Among The Last Living Survivors Of What?	The Sinking Of The Titanic In 1912	General

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