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      1 What term describes vegetables cut into thin strips?

      2 Which fruit is usually used in the dessert Brown Betty?

      3 What is added to hollandaise sauce to make mousseline sauce?

      4 Poire belle Hélène is a classic French dessert, consisting of a poached pear in ice cream and topped with which flavour of sauce?

      5 Rye whiskey, vermouth and angostura are the ingredients of which cocktail?

      6 What are wrapped in bacon to make angels on horseback?

      7 Which vegetable’s varieties include Nantes, Mignon and Chantenay?

      8 Which TV cook has written books including At Home, One Step Ahead and Recipe for Life?

      9 What does authentic Parmesan cheese have stamped on its rind?

      10 What is a savarin?

      11 What drink is it considered unlucky to toast with in Germany?

      12 Traditionally, mozzarella is made from the milk of which animal?

      13 What is the main ingredient of the Indian dish aloo chaat?

      14 Which German sausage is similar to a black pudding?

      15 What is the term given to a side of unsliced bacon?

      16 Madagascar produces most of the world’s supply of vanilla pods. From which type of plant is vanilla obtained?

      17 Appenzeller cheese comes from which country?

      18 What is the literal meaning of “brandy”?

      19 What type of seeds are used to make a seed cake?

      20 Barolo is a wine from which Italian region?

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      1 In the TV series, what two items are the staple diet of The Clangers?

      2 What is a Blenheim Orange?

      3 In which year was the film The Wizard of Oz originally released?

      4 Which Pacific island group has Suva as its capital?

      5 For what are the caves at Lascaux in France famous?

      6 What is the official language of Iran?

      7 Which river flows through Londonderry?

      8 Which 1983 Scottish comedy-drama was written by Bill Forsyth?

      9 Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, was killed in which battle of 1265?

      10 Which Italian city is served by Marco Polo airport?

      11 What term is given to a native of Monaco?

      12 December 6 is the feast day of which saint?

      13 What name is given to a graph showing a normal distribution?

      14 What is the name for a church service held in the evening?

      15 The artist Roy Lichtenstein (d.1997) was born in which country?

      16 Which two of the eight main points of the compass are not used as London postcode areas?

      17 Who was the father of the Grand Duchess Anastasia?

      18 Euclid established the foundations of which branch of study?

      19 Which band had a 1970 hit in the UK with Make It with You?

      20 Of what is heliophobia a fear?

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      1 Boy George made a guest appearance in which US TV series in 1986?

      2 Georgetown University is in which US city?

      3 Who had a 2014 hit with Budapest?

      4 In which county is Royal St George’s golf course?

      5 St George’s is the capital of which Caribbean island?

      6 The town of Nuits-Saint-Georges is in which French wine-producing region?

      7 What is the name of the scheming musician in George du Maurier’s 1894 novel Trilby?

      8 George of Denmark married which Stuart queen?

      9 Which UK Prime Minister was in born in Manchester on January 17, 1863?

      10 What is georgette?

      11 Which US baseball legend’s first names were George Herman?

      12 The phrase “George, don’t do that”, was associated with which comedienne?

      13 Who sang The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde in 1967?

      14 What relation was singer Rosemary Clooney to actor George Clooney?

      15 George C Scott played which US general in a 1970 film of the same name?

      16 Which South American country has Georgetown as its capital?

      17 Who wrote the play Arms and the Man?

      18 George W Bush was Governor of which US state before he became President in 2001?

      19 Which British architect was one of the main designers of the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris?

      20 Which French writer lived with the composer Chopin?

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