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What was "famous" about the death of the Conservative Party MP William Huskis son who died in September 1830? ##HE WAS THE FIRST DEATH DUE TO THE RAILWAYS HE DIED DURING THE INAUGURAL TRIP OF THE RAILROAD BETWEEN MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL 2.What term did Charles Richet coin to describe the study of the paranormal in the 19th century? The term has come to acquire an entirely different connotation today. ##THE TERM HE COINED WAS "METAPHYSICS" 3.Easy One...In which language was the New Testament originally written? ## GREEK BUT ANAND (ASS) GIVES THE COMPLETE FUNDA IT WAS WRITTEN IN AN ANCIENT FORM OF GREEK CALLED "KOINE" THANKS ASS 4. Another sitter...What is common to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln?(Apart from the obvious fact that they were all p residents) ##THEY ARE ALL CARVED ON THE FACE OF MT.RUSHMORE 5.Which delicious dessert is technically called "Ascomycetes"? ##ASCOMYCETES IS A FAMILY OF FUNGI OF WHICH "TRUFLE" IS A PART AND NO MUSHROOMS ARE NOT A PART OF T HIS FAMILY AND ANYWAY 6. Which carribean island does Richard Branson of Virgin fame own and why is it so named? ##THE ISLAND IS CALLED "NECKER ISLAND" IN THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS BUT NO NE GOT THE FUNDA IT WAS A GOOGLY THE ISLAND WAS VERY RESPECTABLY NAMED AFTER A FRENCH GENE RAL OF WWII 7.The adline for which product read "Get one for each foot" when it was released in 1922? ##THE ADLINE WAS FOR THE AUSTIN SEVEN AUTOMOBILE IT GOT THE TAGLINE BECAUSE OF IT S SMALL SIZE 8.Cheeky one...What was the name for the russian version of the Concorde? It wa s based on stolen Concorde plans and crashed in the 1973 Paris Air Show. ##THE RUSSIANS MODESTLY CALLED IT THE TUPOLEV TU 144 THE WEST MORE REALISTICALLY C ALLED IT THE 'KONKORDSKI 9. Connect the car rental agency Avis and Volkwagen Beetle. It's a very specifi c connection. ##THE ADVERTISING AGENCY DDB (DOYLE, DANE AND BERNBACH) AND SPECIFICALLY BILL B ERNBACH DESIGNED THE AD CAMPAIGNS FOR BOTH AVIS ("WE ARE NO.2") AND VOLKWAGEN BE ETLE ("SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL") 10. A tough one i guess...What is the significance of 29th May 1871 to the banki ng industry? ##IT IS THE FIRST RECORDED OFFICIAL BANK HOLIDAY 11. For which soccer club did the pop star Julio Iglesias play? ##HE WAS THE RESERVE GOALKEEPER FOR REAL MADRID 12. Vodka can be distilled from either ___________ or _________. ##THE ANSWER IS POTATOES AND GRAIN IT CAN ACTUALLY BE MADE FROM ANY SUBSTANCE WICH IS RICH IN STARCH AS UJJWAL RIGHTLY POINTED OUT BUT THESE TWO ARE THE MOST COMM ONLY USED A 13.Which word has been incorporated completely unchanged into over a thousand la nguages including Arabic, Mandarin and English? ##THE WORD IS "AMEN"

14. What is the principle behind the numbering of the Interstate highways in the US of A? ##THEY ARE NUMBERED ACCORDING TO THE "EISENHOWER PRINCIPLE" THE HIGHWAYS RUNNING NORTH TO SOUTH ARE GIVEN TWO DIGIT EVEN NUMBERS THE HIGHWAYS RUNNING WEST TO EAST ARE GIVEN TWO DIGIT ODD NUMBERS AND THE HIGHWAYS ENCIRCLING A CITY ARE GIVEN THREE DIGIT NUMBERS 15.Connect : India, Lima and Quebec. ##SURPRISINGLY FEW HITS THESE ARE THE ONLY PLACES AS IN GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS TH AT FORM A PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABETS USED IN MESSAGING ALPHA FOR A, BRAVO FOR B, CHARLIE FOR C AND SO ON...IT WAS DEVELOPED BY NATO