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Q: In the Book of Matthew, which Biblical character performs the Dance of the Seven Veils?

A: Jesus?

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Q: In the British peerage system what is the male equivalent of a Dame?

A: Duchess?

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Q: In 1935 Sir Allen Lane founded a publishing company named after which type of flightless bird?

A: Ladybird?

Q: In Japanese cuisine, soba is a kind of what long, thin foodstuff?

A: Sushi?

Q: Which letter precedes the word “Day” in reference to a major and decisive Allied WWII beach landing in 1944?

A: Doomsday

Q: Which physicist presented the 2019 BBC television series The Planets?

A: Stephen Hawkins?

Q: Which Scottish inventor and electrical engineer demonstrated the first television transmission in 1926 on a machine he named the Televisor?

A: I was thinking of, er… “telly”, so, Graham Bell?

Q: Which American artist born in 1912 was known for his ‘drip’ style paintings which he usually numbered rather than named?

A: Robert Kennedy?

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Q: Which English queen was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon?

A: Victoria II?

Q: Introduced by the Danish chemist Søren Sørensen in 1909 what is the name of the scale that measures the acidity or alkalinity of a substance?

A: Millilitres?

Q: Which species of large flightless bird has the scientific name struthio camelus?

A: A stoke?

Q: Whilst Washington D.C. was being constructed which major port city served as the temporary capital city of the USA?

A: Er… Atlanta? Denver? Oregon? No… I’m going to say Denver.

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Q: Which Shakespearian character says the lines “O Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo”?

A: Romeo?

Q: The Suffolk Punch is a domesticated breed of what type of equine animal?

A: Tiger?

Q: The term Lox is used as an alternative name for the liquid form of which element?

A: Iron?

Q: Which title character of an 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas is said to be the imprisoned twin brother of Louis XIV?

A: Henry V?

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Q: Which endangered animal has a sort of opposable thumb allowing it to grip food?

a) Giant panda?
b) Black rhino?
c) Snow leopard?

Contestant: "well, considering it logically, I'd have say black rhino"

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Q: Meles meles is the Latin name for which black and white striped nocturnal mammal?

A: A whale?

Richard Osman's House of Games

Q: Complete the title of this song by Neneh Cherry: "Buffalo..."

A: Mozzarella?

Someone else (Andy Murray's mum) said "wings".

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Q: Which small round vegetable gives its name to bright shade of green?

A: Potato?

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Q: When describing an outdoor space where vendors sell second-hand merchandise, the name of which insect comes before the word "market"?

A: Grasshopper?

Q: A Spaniard is a native of which European country?

A: Pass.

Celebrity Tipping Point

After round 1:

Toyah Willcox - £0
Sharron Davies - £0
Reverend Richard Coles - £2600

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Final score:

Toyah Willcox - £400
Sharron Davies - £1800
Reverend Richard Coles - £20,000

Pointless

Category: countries of the world with land borders of over 1000 miles...

A: Africa?

A: The UK?

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Same contestant both times BTW.

Q: The translation of the name "Beelzebub" is also the title of which novel by William Golding?

Contestant - "Well, I know that "Beelzebub" means "the devil", but the only William Golding novel I know is "Lord of the Flies", so I'll just have to say "The Devil".

Q: Which of these James Cameron films won 11 Academy Awards?

1) True Lies?
2) The Terminator?
3) Titanic?

Contestant - "Well, I've seen Titanic and I know it won a lot of awards, so... OK, yes, I'm going to say "True Lies".

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Q: The sport polocrosse is a combination of polo and which other team sport?

A: Noughts and crosses?

Q: The letters "XO" on a bottle of cognac stand for "extra" what?

A: Olcohol?