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1. What is Abyssinia now called? Ethiopia - Kumabjorn
2. Do mosquitoes have teeth? Yes - Kumabjorn
3. Where are three-quarters of the world's pineapples grown? Hawaii - Kumabjorn
4. Who was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park? Thomas Edision - poohbear
5. Which film featured Woody Allen as the wardrobe man in a strip club?
6. Which Spanish-born bandleader always carried a Chihuahua under his arm? Xavier Cugat - poohbear
7. What was the name of Humphrey Bogart's club in Casablanca?
8. Which canal did the artist Gaugin help build as a labourer? Panama Canal - Kumabjorn
9. How often are brain cells replaced? Never - Kumabjorn
10. What track does the Chattanooga Choo Choo leave Pennsylvania Station from? Track 29 - pdurrant
11. How many nautical miles are there in one degree of longitude at the equator? 60 - pdurrant
12. What can be seen every 76 years? Halley's Comet - Kumabjorn
13. Shangri-La was the mythical utopia in the novel ...? Lost Horizon - Kumabjorn
14. And the author was ...? James Hilton - poohbear
15. What large dancing bird is the only Australian representative of the crane family?
16. Which operatic heroine commits suicide on her father's sword? Madame Butterfly - Kumabjorn
17. How many stars make up Orion's belt? Three - pdurrant
18. Who wrote Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats? T S Eliot - pdurrant
19. In Peanuts, who is Shroeder's favourite composer? Beethoven - Kumabjorn
20. What is the given name of the heroine of Tosca? Floria - poohbear
9 Kumabjorn
4 pdurrant
4 poohbear
For No 7, Kumabjorn was partly right in that "Rick's" is correct.
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