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1 Which intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I and held its first council meeting in Paris on 16 January 1920?
The League of Nations
 
It was the precursor to the United Nations that was formed in 1945
2 Which actor starred as the lawyer Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird?
(Eldred) Gregory Peck
 
3 What name is given in knitting to a pattern of stitches producing a pattern like a twisted rope?
Cable
 
4 Who, born in 1643, was the second scientist to be knighted?
Sir Isaac Newton (knighted in 1705)
 
Sir Francis Bacon was the first, knighted in 1603.
5 In the Bible, Exodus 24:12 describes the 10 commandments as being written on what?
Stone tablets
 
6 Since 1890, what has the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service been called?
New Scotland Yard
 
7 On October 24 1901, for her 63rd birthday, Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in what?
A barrel
 
8 Cone cells are the photoreceptors in the centre of the retina that detect colour. What are the other cells called that function in lower light levels?
Rod cells
 
9 What name is given to a sequence of reactions where a reactive product or by-product causes additional reactions, which is also the name of a Diana Ross single?
Chain Reaction.
 
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