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  1. What’s the only sea in the world without a land boundary?

  2. In 1994 the Americas were officially declared free of which disease?

  3. What was the Beatles’ last number one single in Britain?

  4. Battle of Mont-Saint-Jean, 18 June 1815
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    Which battle was initially known to the French as the Battle of Mont-Saint-Jean?

  5. In 1604 King James I wrote a polemic called A Counterblaste to . . . what?

  6. Whose film roles include Jordan Belfort, Jack Dawson and Howard Hughes?

  7. A chukka is a period of play in which sport?

  8. What is Britain’s largest supermarket chain?

  9. The House at Pooh Corner paperback book by A.A. Milne
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    In AA Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner, who is Tigger’s best friend?

  10. Which Renaissance artist’s surname was Buonarroti?

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