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Cynthia Brimhall was Playboy?s ?Playmate of the Month? in October 1985. She was the first woman to appear in a centrefold of Playboy without what?

STAPLES

In November 2012, Colorado and which other US State became the first two states to make legal the sale and possession of marijuana for both medical and non-medical use?

WASHINGTON
Which American apparel retailer often uses a moose logo on its clothing, though usually this isn?t necessary as the company name or initials is regularly emblazoned on t-shirts, shirts and jackets?

ABERCROMBIE & Fitch

The largest of the tarsal bones, where precisely in the human body would you find the calcaneus bone?

HEEL

Ratings agencies give grades to bonds issued by governments and countries. What generic term is given to higher-risk bonds which are graded lower than BBB- by the main ratings agencies?

JUNK Bonds

Known as acetaminophen in the US, what extremely common, mild analgesic was, according to the National Office for Statistics, responsible for over 5% of the drug-related deaths in England and Wales in 2011?

PARACETAMOL
The largest hotel complex in the United States, which Las Vegas hotel included, until 2012, a large, glass-sided lion habitat inside the main casino area?

MGM GRAND

Similar to crŠme br–l‚e and named after the Spanish region from where it originated, what dish consisting of flavoured custard topped with sugar which has been caramelised using an iron grill rather than a flame is traditionally served in this region on St Joseph?s Day?

CREMA CATALANA (CATALAN CREAM)

Which iconic figure (1778-1840) of Regency England, a friend of the Prince Regent (the future King George VI), is credited with introducing, and establishing as fashion, the modern men's suit worn with a necktie? He is also referred to in the lyrics of Billy Joel?s hit song ?It?s Still Rock and Roll to Me?.

George Brian "Beau" BRUMMELL

Primavera is the Italian word for which of the four seasons?

SPRING
At 2,508km in length, some 1,000km longer than the Darling River, which river is the longest in Australia?

MURRAY River

Which European capital city, with a population of less than 7,000 in 2011, doesn?t even rank in the top-20 cities or towns of the country and is less than a third of the size of Birkirkara the largest town in the country?

VALLETTA

If 25 grams of salt was dissolved in 225 grams of water, what would be the percentage salt solution by mass?

10% / TEN PERCENT

Named after a French mathematician, ?The Father of Electrodynamics?, what is the SI unit of electric current? It is one of the seven fundamental or base SI units.

AMPERE (or AMP)
What mountain is the highest point of Asia?s Karakoram Range?

K2 (Mount GODWINAUSTEN / KETU / CHOGORI)

The book ?Five Days at Memorial? collated the Pulitzer Prize winning reportage of Sheri Fink, a New York Times journalist. It deals with events at Memorial Medical Centre during and after a major 2005 disaster. In which US city is this particular Memorial Medical Centre?

NEW ORLEANS

Taking its Latin name Galanthus from the Greek for ?milk flower?, what is the common English name for this group of around twenty species of flowering plants, the majority of which flower before the end of March in the Northern Hemisphere?

SNOWDROP

A ceramic structure washed in aluminium oxide containing suspended platinum, palladium or rhodium (or a mixture of these) was first patented in the 1950?s but wasn?t used widely in cars until the 1970?s. What two-word term is used for this device which is now required by law in most Western countries on all new cars?

CATALYTIC CONVERTER
Some 1,100km north of London, Lerwick is the capital and largest town on which group of UK islands?

SHETLAND Islands

It recently ran into a "mechanical control abnormality" and its mission life may be shortened, much to the dismay of many space exploration enthusiasts. What is the name of China?s lunar rover that landed on the moon on 14th December 2013? (We will accept either it?s Chinese name, or the English translation thereof.)

YUTU / JADE RABBIT

What is the sixth term in the Fibonacci sequence beginning with 0?

5

The taiga or boreal forest is the world?s largest terrestrial ecosystem and is characterised by the proliferation of coniferous forest. In which country is the greatest proportion of taiga situated with the word itself coming from this country?s language?

RUSSIA
Although it is only 114th on the list of countries in the world by size, it has around 400 mud volcanoes, about half of the global total. The pop duo Ell & Nikki might possibly have taken inspiration from their native landscape as they won the Eurovision Song Contest for which country this century?

AZERBAIJAN

Twenty four of the twenty seven moons of which planet of the solar system are named after characters from the plays of William Shakespeare ? including Titania, Cordelia, Ophelia, Desdemona and Juliet?

URANUS

Completed in 1883 and spanning nearly 500 metres, which bridge in the Americas was the first steel-wire suspension bridge ever constructed?

BROOKLYN BRIDGE

The city of Syracuse, birthplace of Archimedes and described by Cicero as the ?greatest Greek city of them all?, is located on which Mediterranean island?

SICILY

In which group of mammals are the young born in an extremely underdeveloped, blind and hairless state and immediately have to crawl across their mother?s body using their relatively welldeveloped front limbs to access a supply of milk?

MARSUPIALS

Sometimes also referred to as spelter, which metal has many medicinal purposes including the treatment and prevention of diarrhoea but is most widely used in the galvanising process to prevent corrosion of iron or steel?

ZINC

Sodium Thiopental is one of a number of drugs which the EU has banned for export to the US, forcing the Americans to come up with alternative drugs for what purpose?

LETHAL INJECTION

Famed for a traditional form of white-thread embroidery and also for an eight or nine string fiddle which originated there and is common in the music of the country, the region of Hardanger is in which country?

NORWAY

The name of which British overseas territory in the Caribbean, with a capital that shares its name with the home ground of Charlton Athletic FC, starts and ends with the letter A?

ANGUILLA

Which small African country, with the capital Moroni, is the most southerly member of the Arab League and, in fact, the only member to be fully in the Southern hemisphere?

COMOROS

In which part of the earth's atmosphere, the second lowest layer - beginning at about 12,000m above the surface, would you find the ozone layer?

STRATOSPHERE

Which explorer led the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-17? It is sometimes called the Endurance Expedition after one of the ships used in the expedition.

Ernest SHACKLETON

What name is given to particles containing two protons and two neutrons, essentially the same as a helium nucleus, which are commonly emitted during the decay of large, radioactive elements such as uranium and radium?

ALPHA Particles

With some 6,000 animals and an area of over 100 hectares, the world?s largest metropolitan zoo is in which US city?

NEW YORK (the Bronx Zoo)

Moraines are deposits of soil, rocks and boulders usually carried on and then left at the end and sides of what geological features?

GLACIERS

What word is used to the denote the ratio of the speed of an object travelling through a gas or liquid with the speed of sound in that gas or liquid?

MACH

What four-letter name is given to the huge, stone, humanoid figures which have stood on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) for over 500 years?

MOAI

What Italian mountain range, since 2009 a UNESCO World Heritage Site, takes its name from the type of sedimentary, carbonate rock (composed of calcium magnesium carbonate) which make up most of the range and gives it its characteristic shapes and colours?

DOLOMITES

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