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QUIZ

Thomas Eaton

1 Which singer/songwriter is known as the “mother of the MP3”?

2 What is the largest arboreal mammal?

3 Sandra Mason is the first president of which country?

4 Which UK charity is named after a New York bar?

5 In global investment, what is an SWF?

6 Which monarch had a 325-volume stamp collection?

7 Which Lloyd Webber musical borrowed a title from Elgar?

8 The sports paper L’Auto founded which race?

What links:

9 Abertawe; Caerdydd; Casnewydd; Llanelwy; Tyddewi?

10 Hudson; Crichton; Pennyworth; Carson?

Betelgeuse; Peter the Great; plague rodents;

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