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1. Which department store was the first in the UK to have an escalator?
2. What type of work would a Farrier do?
3. Where would a Russian peasant wear a Babushka?
4. Trevor Sorbie has been a major name in which personal care industry?
5. What is the middle name of CS Lewis?
6. Which king of France was known as ‘The Sun King’?
7. What is the term for someone who collects books?
8. Singer Marvin Lee Aday is better known by which one word name?
9. In the cartoon, what is the name of Tin Tin's dog?
10. The Oriole Bird' is a baseball mascot in which US city? 1. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
2. You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy.
3. How is seven different from the rest of the numbers between one and ten?
4. What is able to go up a chimney when down but unable to go down a chimney when up?
5. Three different doctors said Paul is their brother yet Paul claims he has no brothers. Who is lying?
6. What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
7. This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it?
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1 Apothecary’s measure (7) 8 Cavil (7) 9 Civic victim of Vesuvius (7) 10 Surgically implanted tube (7) 11 Bingo (5) 13 Massacre (9) 15 Poetaster (9) 18 Seraglio, concubines (5) 21 Framework (7) 22 Comedian (5-2) 23 Quiet (7) 24 Supple, lithe (7) 1 Part of a flower (5) 2 Brief, responsibility (5) 3 Fetching, attractive (13) 4 Mystery (6) 5 Quarrelling (2,11) 6 Fate (6) 7 Ice dancer (6) 12 Vow (4) 14 Fencing sword (4) 15 Niche (6) 16 Annual (6) 17 Ornamental fringed knot (6) 19 Cowboy exhibition (5) 20 Wood used in furniture/flooring etc. (5)