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10 'o' positive 13 yes it was too big.you needed a very long hose thingy...... 26 red, yellow, and blue

26 They are if you are talking about light but they aren't if you are talking about paint. Janice

6. False, it means hello or welcome

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1. A booklouse is someone who reads books excessively 2. Sir Walter Raleigh invented an early form of the bicycle 3. Margaret Thatcher’s was the longest term in office of any woman prim minister 4. The first single to sell over 1m copies was Rock Around the Clock 5. Tony Blackburn presented the first Top of the Pops on TV 6. Kia Ora takes it name from the Maori word for good health 7. Jim Bowie invented the bowie knife 8. The Isle of Man was the first place to give women the vote 9. JFK was the youngest US president 10. O negative is the commonest blood group in the UK 11. Queen Victoria was the first European monarch to use the telephone 12. William Caxton invented the printing press 13. The first vacuum cleaner was so large it was horse drawn and couldn’t get inside houses 14. A Chinese typewriter keyboard has circa 1500 characters 15. The Caesarean section operation was named after Julius Caesar 16. We have cuckoo birds, do cuckoo bees exist 17. The socialist republicans were the rebels in the Spanish Civil War 18. Stonefish is the name of a type of coral 19. The tibia bone’s connected to the radius bone 20. Kellogg first developed cereals in 1906 as a health food for psychiatric patients 21. A carillon is the specific name given to a chorister in Canterbury Cathedral 22. Germany’s Oktoberfest beer festival always begins in September 23. If you eat carrots it helps you see in the dark 24. Conan Doyle created the first fictional detective 25. Sherlock Holmes played the saxophone 26. Red, green and blue are the three primary colours 27. Hitler took his pet rat Otto everywhere he went 28. The Beatles were the first UK group to have a No. 1 in the US 29. Vera Lynn was the first UK female to have a No. 1 in the US 30. In 1995-6 the Beatles earned more money than the Stones 31. Herr Porche designed the Volkswagen Beetle 32. Hamlet has the most lines of all Shakespeare’s characters 33. Mr Eiffel designed the Eiffel Tower 34. Jackie Stewart won more grand prix than Nigel Mansell 35. Leo is the name of the MGM lion 36. French Premier Water was originally produced by an Englishman 37. More single gloves are lost on London Underground than pairs of gloves 38. The pigtail was banned in China in the early 20th century 39. Guillotine came from an amalgamation of the French words for neck and sever 40. The world’s longest underwater tunnel is the Channel Tunnel 41. Joan Collins appeared once in Star Trek- The Next Generation 42. The Shetland pony is the smallest breed of horse 43. Would you die of vitamin deficiency if your diet consisted only of rabbit meat 44. The US eats more sweets annually per head than Denmark 45. All the tea in China is less than all the tea in India 46. The UK drinks more tea than Ireland per head of population 47. One in five people on Earth is Chinese 48. Armstrong stepped onto the moon with his right foot 49. The least used letter of the English alphabet is X 50. Cigarettes are the most popular duty free purchase

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