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  1. Why did Louis IX order table knives to have rounded rather than pointed ends?
    • To stop his dinner guests stabbing each other.

  2. Which Country produces the greatest number of varieties of sausage?
    • Germany - over 2,000 and counting!

  3. What is the motto of the FBI?
    • Fidelity, Integrity, Bravery

  4. Recite the shortest verse in the Bible.
    • Jesus Wept (John 11:35)

  5. On which H.G.Wells novel was the play 'Half a Sixpence' based?
    • Kipps

  6. The Local Defense Volunteers were renamed what?
    • The Home Guard

  7. Which great English contralto dies of cancer in 1953?
    • Kathleen Ferrier

  8. What interval separated the first controlled atomic reaction and the first atomic explosion?
    • 2 years 7 months (Dec 1942 to July 1945)

  9. Who is the patron saint of shoemakers?
    • Saint Crispin

  10. In 1685 the Earl of Argyll was the last person to be executed by which method?
    • Guillotine (will accept Scottish Maiden)



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