1 The shores of Botany Bay are ringed by the suburbs of which city in New South Wales?
2 According to the title of a 1963 hit, Gene Pitney was how many hours from Tulsa?
3 After water, what is the most widely consumed drink in the world?
4 Variola is the technical name for which eradicated disease?
5 William Arms Fisher adapted the 1922 song Goin’ Home from which symphony by Antonin Dvorak?
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6 Which corps of the British Army is commonly known as the “Sappers”?
7 Which 2000 play by David Edgar is about the life of a Nazi architect?
8 Which yellow flower is the symbol of the end-of-life care charity Marie Curie?
9 Which two Labour politicians became prime minister without having any ministerial experience?
10 Which German novelist wrote Cat and Mouse, Dog Years and The Rat?
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11 Which 2004 film is the highest-grossing independent movie in history?
12 Disproved by Louis Pasteur, which theory proposed that complex organisms can be born from nonliving matter, such as water?
13 In March 1891, which passenger steamship collided with the moored battleship HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar?
14 The 2005 film The Greatest Game Ever Played is about which golfer winning the 1913 US Open?
15 Which museum ship is pictured?
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Answers
1 Sydney
2 Twenty Four Hours
3 Tea
4 Smallpox
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5 Symphony No 9 or the New World Symphony
6 Royal Engineers
7 Albert Speer
8 Daffodil
9 Ramsay MacDonald and Tony Blair
10 Günter Grass
11 The Passion of the Christ
12 Spontaneous generation
13 SS Utopia
14 Francis Ouimet
15 HMS Belfast