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What was the name of Bill Sikes' dog in Oliver Twist?
Bull's-Eye

 

What is the term for music that is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment?
A cappella

 

What other 2 colours make up the national flag of India besides Saffron and White?
Green and Blue

 

Angelo Siciloano a U.S body builder who died aged 79 in 1972 was famously better known as who?
Charles Atlas

 

Described as one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, off which country's coast would you find the Bell Rock Lighthouse?
Scotland

 

In the sitcom Dad's Army, who had the catchphrase "put that light out"?
Hodges, the ARP Warden

 

Who led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
Roald Amundsen

 

Which crime drama was set around a New Jersey-based Italian American mobster starring James Gandolfini
The Sopranos

 

In 1938 the world speed record for a steam locomotive was set in England at a speed of 125.88 miles per hour, by which engine?
Mallard

 

What percentage of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide? a) less than 1% b) 1 to 2% c) more than 2%
a) less than 1% (0.037%)