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1. The British cyclist Chris Froome was actually born in which country?
2. Best known by his initials, which fictional character had the first names of John Ross?
3. Who invented the first rigid Airship in 1900?
4. Who is Antoine Domino better known as?
5. For which profession is Sir Charles Barry known?
6. George Stubbs was a painter and engraver who specialised in painting which animals?
7. Ganymede is the largest moon of which planet?
8. In what country of the UK is Lindholme prison situated?
9. Which cathedral in Cambridgeshire was founded in 1109?
10. What is the Sunday before Easter Sunday known as? 1. How do eight eights add up to one thousand?
2. Two men are in a desert. They both have backpacks on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his backpack open and the guy who is dead has his backpack closed. What is in the dead man’s backpack?
3. I can be long or can be short, I can be black, white, brown, or purple. You can find me the world over and I am often the main feature. What am I?
4. The more there is, the less you see. What am I?
5. What is full of holes but still holds a lot of water?
6. What word looks the same upside down and backward?
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1 Formal headgear (3,3) 4 Former name of Iran (6) 8 Mistake (5) 9 Obstacle (7) 10 Nuts from a horse-chestnut tree (7) 11 Exhaust (3,2) 12 Remaining indefinitely (9) 17 Category (5) 19 Ten-sided figure (7) 21 Cattle thief (7) 22 That is (Latin) (2,3) 23 More expensive (6) 24 Tittle-tattle (6) 1 From that place (6) 2 Root vegetable (7) 3 See eye to eye (5) 5 On the way (2,5) 6 Backbone (5) 7 Sudden and unexpected (6) 9 Onlooker (9) 13 Make a firm decision (7) 14 Female big cat (7) 15 Frightened (6) 16 Part of the foot (6) 18 Bewildered (2,3) 20 One of the Marx Brothers (5)
