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1 Rescue workers in Cuba employ specially trained what to sniff out survivors in collapsed buildings?
A Rabbits (as reported on the BBC News website 26th September)
2 Tested by dummies, driven by the intelligent, was an advertising slogan used by which carmaker?
A Volvo
3 What is the name for a triangle that has two equal sides?
A Isosceles
4 Who parachuted into Scotland from Germany in May 1941, claiming to be on a peace mission?
A Rudolph Hess
5 How does the Japanese exclamation “banzai” translate to English?
A Ten thousand years, typically meaning “long live” (it doesn’t mean charge, the Allied Forces in WWII gave it that meaning because Japanese militia would shout out in defiance “Tenno Heika Banzai”, “Long live the Emperor”)
6 What is it traditionally easy to obtain in Reno, Nevada?
A Divorce
7 Who uses a place called a Gurdwara?
A Sikhs, it’s a place of worship
8 What is the name for a number that is equal to the sum of all its divisors excluding itself?
A Perfect number (e.g. 1+2+3=6 or 1+2+4+7+14=28) (137,438,691,328 is also a perfect number, it has 38 divisors)
9 Launched in 1981, what was the name of NASA’s first space shuttle to reach orbit?
A Columbia (The Space Shuttle Enterprise was only a prototype used to perform test flights in the atmosphere)
10 Dennis the Menace stories permanently replaced those of which other character on the front cover of the Beano in 1974?
A Biffo the Bear (Biffo was retired from the comic on 25th October 1986)