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QUIZ

Thomas Eaton

1 Which US president won the Nobel peace prize and the Medal of Honor?

2 What peaked at $68,789 in November 2021?

3 Which fellow dystopian taught George Orwell at Eton?

4 What is the national fruit of Jamaica?

5 Five-year-old Margaret Theresa is the main figure in which group portrait?

6 What is now officially Yr Wyddfa?

7 Which Islay whisky advertised its taste as “burning hospital”?

8 Who contested the 1972 World Chess Championship?

What links:

9 African ground squirrel; Mexican hairless dog; translucent fish; Sabine’s gull?

10 Henry I; John; James II; William IV; George VI?

The 400 Blows; Amarcord; Radio Days;

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