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Question	Answer	Category
What Plant Was Traditionally Cultivated In Europe For Its Unique Blue Dye?	Woad	General
What Significant Member Of The British Government Drowned When Hms Hampshire Was Sunk By A Mine Off Orkney In 1916?	Lord Kitchener	General
Who Discovered And Opened Tutankhamun's Tomb In 1922?	Howard Carter	General
Kenneth Kaunda Was The First President Of Which African Country?	Zambia	General
Who Invented The Jet Engine?	Frank Whittle (it was patented in 1930)	General
In Which London Building Was The Funeral Of Diana Princess Of Wales Held In 1997?	Westminster Abbey	General
Which Argentine Leader Was Deposed In 1982?	General Galtieri	General
Marron Glac Is What, Preserved And Coated In Sugar?	Chestnut	General
In Which Year Was The Battle Of Waterloo?	1815 (on 18 June, Wellington's defeat of Napoleon ended the Napoleonic Wars - Waterloo is in Belgium, close to Brussells)	General
Which Actor's Real Name Was William Henry Pratt?	Boris Karloff (1887-1969)	General
The Creation Of What Famous And Anthemic Song Is Officially Attributed To Banjo Paterson And Christina Macpherson?	Waltzing Matilda	General
Who Played Daisy Duke In The 2005 Film The Dukes Of Hazzard?	Jessica Simpson (Catherine Bach played Daisy in the 1979-85 original TV show, and Waylon Jennings sang the TV theme song)	General
Who Was King Of Egypt From 1936-52?	Farouk	General
What Is The Name Of The Cambridge University College That Was Originally For Women Only?	Girton	General
What Is The Collective Term For A Group Of Woodpeckers?	Descent	General