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1. Nightlife Thugs was a previous name of which Irish band?
2. In medicine what does the term Vascular relate to?
3. What is the name of the world’s largest peninsula?
4. Who was Prime Minister immediately before Margaret Thatcher?
5. The collective noun for Starlings is what?
6. In mythology who was the Greek Goddess of Love?
7. Verbo is a phobia about what?
8. which city is Barlinnie prison?
9. What is the name of the bitter orange flavoured Italian aperitif?
10. The US escapologist Harry Houdini was born in which eastern european country? 1. You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
2. A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?
3. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
4. Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have?
5. A little girl goes to the store and buys one dozen eggs. As she is going home, all but three break. How many eggs are left unbroken?
6. What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
7. People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
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1 One-off (5,2,3,3) 8 Machine part (3) 9 Tycoon (9) 10 Sent for (8) 11 Guided visit (4) 13 Addict (6) 14 Intermittent (6) 16 Slightly open (4) 17 Rubberneck (8) 20 Get one’s bearings (9) 21 Wrath (3) 22 Whispered blandishments (5,8 2 Disputatious (13) 3 Trance (8) 4 Sickness (6) 5 Catchy part of song (4) 6 By rote (6-7) 7 Unaffected (7) 12 Relative to advanced electronics etc. (4,4) 13 Covetous (7) 15 Female scold (6) 18 Unattractive bet (5) 19 Flying insect (4)
