1. Nigeria
2. Lizard Point
3. Skull
4. Great Bustard
5. General William Sherman
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6. Ionic
7. Claude Monet
8. Cambodia
9. Orion
10. Hollyhock
11. Enron
12. Oxygen
13. Two
14. Trent
15. 1,024
16. Cooked or served with (usually fried) onions
17. Mayan
18. Michael Frayn
19. Mongolia
20. Chickpeas
21. The Darkness
22. Peter Greenaway
23. Nicholas (Nick) Leeson
24. The Golden Bough
25. “In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are kings”
26. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
27. From the Latin “nullus arbor” — no tree
28. Green
29. Nitrogen
30. Garfield (Gary) Sobers
31. Sisyphus
32. Jane Seymour
33. Ginger Rogers
34. 14th
35. Charlie Parker
36. Treasure Island
37. Barnaby Rudge
38. Magnum
39. S U N (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)
40. Fibonacci Sequence (or Series)
41. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
42. Isohel
43. Thanks for the Memory
44. Thomas Pynchon
45. Carl Nielsen
46. Noble (or inert) gases
47. La traviata
48. Ohm’s Law
49. William Blake
50. Stanley Baldwin
51. 1957
52. Hawaii
53. The Cure
54. Bernard Levin
55. Gettysburg
56. VHF
57. Ivory Coast (Yamoussoukro Basilica)
58. Cicero
59. 1904
60. Deoxyribonucleic Acid
61. Transistor
62. Alberto Giacometti
63. Mariana Trench
64. Richard III
65. Jesse Owens
66. Mark Thompson
67. Butterflies
68. Arsenal
69. Ireland (Lartique Monorail)
70. The Prisoner
71. 57
72. Periwinkle
73. Coelacanth
74. Exodus
75. Maria Sharapova
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