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1 Which Western country didn’t become a full member of the United Nations until October 2002?
A Switzerland
2 Under what name did Xavier Roberts market the cloth dolls he designed in 1978?
A Cabbage Patch Kids/Dolls (one of the most popular toy fads of the 1980s)
3 The government-authorised scheme FENSA, regulates the installation of what?
A Windows and doors (stands for Fenestration Self-Assessment,
4 What type of item about the home has varieties called tumbler, cylinder, and mortice?
A Locks
5 What gas mark would you have to set if cooking instructions only said 190C/375F?
A gas mark 5
6 Which of Roger Hargreaves’ Mr Men has extremely long arms?
A Mr Tickle
7 What is the meaning of the German word ‘Reich’, as in Hitler’s Third Reich?
A Empire
8 If ‘C’ is cyan and ‘Y’ yellow, what does ‘K’ stand for in the subtractive colour model CMYK used in colour printing?
A The “K” in CMYK stands for ‘key’ (the key colour is usually black, but it
9 The global collection of what is stored in a vault in Svalbard on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen?
A Seeds (the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a “doomsday” seedbank of as many of the
10 Until 2009, which voluntary registration scheme certificated engineers to work on household gas appliances?
A CORGI (Council for Registered Gas Installers – on 1st April 2009 their role was taken on by the Gas Safe Register)