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1 According to advertising, which product gives you wings?
A Red Bull
2 What construction in nature inspired a 1960s women’s hairstyle?
A Beehive
3 What is Austria’s internet country-code?
A .at (.au is Australia)
4 Which type of people is the concern of the United Nations organisation UNHCR?
A Refugees (United Nations High Commission for Refugees)
5 What is the name of the police operation that followed the Jimmy Saville Sex Scandal?
A Yewtree (chosen from a list of names intended to be neutral and unrelated to each particular case)
6 In degrees Fahrenheit, what is the boiling point of water?
A 212 (211.9 °F / 99.97 °C)
7 On an Ordnance Survey map what do the letters BP stand for?
A Boundary Post or Plate
8 Which symbol of the Greek alphabet does a Swiss watchmaker use as its trademark?
A Omega
9 In which town does the Dandy comic’s Desperate Dan live?
A Cactusville
10 Which is the popular website that French-Iranian-American Pierre Omidyar launched in 1995?
A The eBay auction site (interestingly, the prototype site was hosted on a website Omidyar had originally created for information on the Ebola virus)