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Diamonds1 What are diamonded with panes of quaint device?A castle's casement window in Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes
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Diamonds2 What tale began with serious problems for a scorpion?Diamonds Are Forever
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Diamonds3 What made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?Chipmunks that scurried up the trees (from the novel Diamond Dust)
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Diamonds4 What stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman Barcarolle?The Mazarin Stone
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Diamonds5 Who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the Roman Empire?Jared Diamond
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Diamonds6 What title embraced studies, amongst others, of a walking talking killing machine, a hell fighter, the time-warp tough guy and an honourable man?Hard BastardsOriginally issued as Diamond Geezers, re-issued as Naughty Bastards (Kate Kray),
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Diamonds7 What was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal shooting with pearls?To have my throat cut with diamonds
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Diamonds8 What diamond was kept by the knight to the disadvantage of the rogue?Pitt's DiamondRegent Diamond (Pope's Epistle III)
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Diamonds9 What blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalolopolis?Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington
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Diamonds10 What was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?Koh-I-NoorAkbar Shah
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Elizabeths1 Who was known as the Queen of the Blues?Elizabeth Montagu
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Elizabeths2 Who went from Hastings to Holland, and then to Cornwall?Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter
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Elizabeths3 Who retained the embalmed "capital" remnant of her executed husband?Elizabeth Throckmorton
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Elizabeths4 Which corpulent lady was affectionately known by her family as Betty Humbug?Princess Elizabeth of Hesse-Homburg
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Elizabeths5 How is Tolhuys's creation bearing the inscriptions Victoria, Libertas and Scalda popularly known?Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol
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Elizabeths6 Which legendary serial gynaecocide was consigned to immurement, while her accomplices were burned at the stake?Elizabeth Báthory
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Elizabeths7 Where is Whitehead's equine memorial to more than two and a half years of deadly conflict?The Horse Memorial at Port Elizabeth
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Elizabeths8 Who felt quickening at six months on receiving her cousin's good news?Elizabeth (mother of John the Baptist)
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Elizabeths9 Who lisped her threat to repeatedly scream to the point of vomiting?Violet Elizabeth Bott
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Elizabeths10 Which relative called "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!"?My son's fair wife, Elizabeth
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Verdi operas1 does the clown inadvertently commit filicide?Rigoletto
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Verdi operas2 is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?Falstaff
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Verdi operas3 does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a monk?La Forza del Destino
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Verdi operas4 does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the chief magistrate?Simon Boccanegra
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Verdi operas5 does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing that he was the son of a gypsy?Il Trovatore
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Verdi operas6 does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following a meteorologically induced period of insanity?Nabuccodonosor
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Verdi operas7 does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived 'affair', followed by uxoricide and then suicide?Otello
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Verdi operas8 is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a fortune-teller?Un Ballo in Maschera
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Verdi operas9 is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of Aachen?Ernani
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Verdi operas10 does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?La Traviata
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Famous Dutchmen1 held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?Van Loon
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Famous Dutchmen2 is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?Maria van Diemen
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Famous Dutchmen3 built an insular wooden cabin by a sea which took his name?Willem Barentsz
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Famous Dutchmen4 is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?Carel Fabritius
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Famous Dutchmen5 was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?Willem Blaeu
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Famous Dutchmen6 was the father-in-law of a great painter and the guest of a quiet leader on the day of his fatal shooting?Rombertus van Uylenburgh
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Famous Dutchmen7 was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a cherem?Spinoza
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Famous Dutchmen8 stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?Erasmus
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Famous Dutchmen9 developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?Leeuwenhoek
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Famous Dutchmen10 removed Royal Charles from Chatham?Cornelis de WittMichiel de Ruyter
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Names ending in -by1 put Fairfax on the map?Moresby
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Names ending in -by2 wrote of guinea pigs and moles?Mellanby
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Names ending in -by3 supposedly came from Tappington?Thomas Ingolsby
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Names ending in -by4 won on a Rainbow (and also Florrie)?George Formby
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Names ending in -by5 modelled for The Pitcher Goes to the Well?Trilby
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