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1 The Lofthouse Company of Fleetwood in Lancashire, produces which traditional brand of strong menthol lozenges?
A Fisherman’s Friend
2 What surname goes with the forename John in the USA to represent the name of a dead body whose identity is unknown?
A Doe (widely used in the US and Canada, but not in the UK, where it’s use in a legal context originates. We use ‘Joe Bloggs’ as does Australia and New Zealand.)
3 Which social networking website did husband and wife, Steve and Julie Pankhurst of Barnet, launch in July 2000?
A Friends Reunited (ITV plc bought it for £175 million in 2005 and sold it to DC Thomson for £25 million in 2009)
4 What paper size measures 297 x 420 mm?
A A3
5 The BBC TV game show ‘Total Wipeout’, is recorded in which country?
A Argentina
6 Which popular item of confectionary was first introduced in 1935 as Chocolate Crisp?
A Kit Kat (priced 2d when launched, Kit-Cat was originally a box of chocolates until ‘Black Magic’ and ‘Dairy Box’ came along)
7 In which astrological star sign is St. Valentine’s Day?
A Aquarius
8 In 1973 the Oxford English Dictionary first used the letter “X” to indicate what meaning?
A A kiss
9 The player to make the first move at the start of a game of chess, has a choice from how many pieces?
A Ten (eight pawns, two knights)
10 The Large Hadron Collider is part of which laboratory in Geneva?
A CERN (CERN originally stood, in French, for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire)