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Chris Maume
Thursday 07 May 2015 03:16 BST
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Why is Greenwich (pictured) twinned with the Tema in Ghana?
Why is Greenwich (pictured) twinned with the Tema in Ghana? (Rex Features)

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1. Which wartime word, now used figuratively to mean criticism, is a contraction of the German Fliegerabwehrkanone?

2. Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda stories were the inspiration for which cinematic childminder?

3. Captain Fred Noonan died somewhere in the Pacific in 1937. With whom?

4. The Benefit of Farting Explained is a 1722 pamphlet written by which satirist?

5. Munros are Scottish mountains higher than 3,000ft. What related name is given to hills or mountains in the British Isles with a prominence of at least 150m? There are 2,009 identified so far.

6. Which 2003 hit book, subsequently adapted for the stage, took its title from an exchange between Holmes and Watson?

7. Why is Greenwich twinned with the Tema in Ghana?

8. Born in Berlin in 1938, he played with Manfred Mann, did cover art for the Beatles, the Bee Gees and Wet, Wet, Wet and produced Trio's "Da Da Da". Who?

9. At a London soirée in 1760, John Joseph Merlin crashed into a mirror demonstrating which invention?

10. Black Legion, The Great O'Malley, Marked Woman, Kid Galahad, San Quentin, Dead End, Stand-In and Swing Your Lady were the eight films made in 1937 by which actor, later named by the American Film Institute as the greatest male star in cinema history?

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