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RuPaul's Flag Race
100
This video conferencing app has faced criticism this week over privacy & safety concerns.
What is Zoom?
100
This writer was once quoted as saying his Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was based on what Pippi Longstocking would be like as an adult.
Who is Stieg Larsson?
100
This is the term often used to describe the wearing of a denim jacket and jeans.
What is double denim?
100
This was first broken in 1947 and later, much more famously, by the Concorde airliner.
What is the speed of sound/sound barrier?
100
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Denmark Portugal
200
20,000 former or retired workers for this British employer have returned to work in the fight against Covid-19.
What is the NHS?
200
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says that this is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
What is a towel?
200
The manufacturer Playtex, which made the spacesuits for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they went to the moon, was much more famous for producing this form of underwear.
What is a bra?
200
This colour is the result of mixing red, blue and green light.
What is white?
200
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Germany Belgium
300
Texas governor Dan Patrick was quoted as saying that these people should be willing to give up their lives to save the American economy.
Who are senior citizens/old people/grandparents?
300
Conspiracy theories around the authorship of this author's work include Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
Invented in 1946, this was banned in many countries including Italy after it was called a sin by the Vatican.
What is a bikini?
300
This word is created by putting together the chemical symbols for Carbon, Potassium, Sodium and Sulfur (not in that order).
What is a snack?
300
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Côte d'Ivoire New Zealand
400
This American actor has created a new Youtube channel called 'Some Good News' to provide light relief in these hard times.
Who is John Krasinski?
400
The novelist Jean-Dominique Bauby ‘dictated’ this book about his life following a stroke by blinking his left eyelid.
What is the Diving Bell & The Butterfly?
400
Though her actual name is Lesley Lawson, this fashion icon goes by this much more famous name.
Who is Twiggy?
400
The octopus is known to have 9 brains, blue blood and this number of hearts.
What is 3?
400
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Nepal Nicaragua
500
The COP26 UN Climate Talks were to be held in this city but have been postponed until 2021.
Where is Glasgow?
500
The first US edition of this Ian Fleming novel was published with the title ‘You Asked for It’.
What is Casino Royale?
500
Possibly due to a mistranslation, Cinderella's slippers were actually made of this in stories published before the 1600s.
What is fur?
or even older tales say gold.
500
Though as adults we should have 206 bones, this is the number of bones that humans have at birth. (margin of 10)
What is 300?
500
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Mozambique Bermuda