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1. Which siblings were responsible for directing and producing the films No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski and Fargo?
2. Lake Tanganyika divides East and West Africa, and also forms the boundary between Tanzania and which other country?
3. Who composed the opera Don Giovanni?
4. The Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris is the home of Genoa CFC and which other Italian Serie A team?
5. Known as the inventor of the first car headlamp, Louis Blériot was also a pioneer in which other field?
6. Born on 22 November 1819, what was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, author of Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss?
7. Which ice cream brand was founded by Reuben and Rose Mattus in Brooklyn, New York, in 1961?
8. Which element, number 98 on the periodic table, is named after an American state that houses the university at which it was discovered?
9. In which ocean did the Battle of the River Plate - the first naval battle in the Second World War - take place?
10. What is the difference in pounds between an English and American hundredweight?

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QUIZ ANSWERS

1. Joel and Ethan Coen
2. Democratic Republic of the Congo
3. Mozart
4. Sampdoria
5. Aviation (first person to fly the English Channel)
6. George Eliot
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8. Californium
9. South Atlantic
10. 12lbs (112lbs and 100lbs respectively)

Questions set by John Cunnane