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Thomas Eaton

1 In 1976, Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake in which company for $800?

2 Rayleigh scattering gives the answer to what childhood question?

3 Who was the last pagan emperor of Rome?

4 What does a Marshall stack consist of?

5 Which two African rivers each give their names to two countries?

6 What legal protection dates to the 1710 Statute of Anne?

7 Which tree’s bark is known as “nature’s aspirin”?

8 With which club did Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu go from non-league to the Premier?

What links:

9 Sailfish; peregrine falcon; cheetah?

10 Humayun’s tomb; Qutb Minar; Jama Masjid; Red Fort?

11 O 48%; A 38%; B 10%; AB 3%?

12 Hafnium; holmium; lutetium; moscovium?

13 Janet Leigh; Anthony Perkins; Bernard Herrmann; chocolate syrup?

14 Versailles; Saint-Germain-en-Laye; Trianon; Sèvres; Neuilly-sur-Seine?

Yeats’s The Second Coming; 1968

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