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1 What are the lions at the base of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square made from?
A Bronze (the column is built from Dartmoor granite)
2 Who cut off the tails of the Three Blind Mice?
A The Farmer’s Wife
3 What does the first ‘A’ stand for in the United States government agency NASA?
A Aeronautics (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
4 What used to be the UK brand name for the chemical depilatory preparation Veet?
A Immac, also called Neet in some markets
5 What is a circadian clock?
A It’s your own body-clock (Circadian rhythms are the natural, 24-hour cycles of physical, mental, and behavioural changes that occur in the body. It’s located in the brain’s suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN).)
6 “New Thinking, New Possibilities” is the brand slogan of which car manufacturer?
A Hyundai
7 What is the far more common trade name for the pharmaceutical drug, Sildenafil citrate?
A Viagra (also Aronix, Liberize or Nipatra)
8 At a length of 27 miles, which is the only existing toll road in the UK?
A M6 (the Birmingham North Relief Road)
9 What Single word describes a government run by rich people?
A Plutocracy (and sometimes plutonomy or plutarchy) source
10 Which supermarket chain launched “Nutmeg” as its own fashion brand?
A Morrisons (Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc)