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1. What first did the American company Gottfried Krueger Brewery achieve on 24 January 1935?
2. What five letter word can mean to direct someone’s attention towards something, the tapered sharp end of a tool, and a critical moment?
3. In which of Shakespeare’s plays did Lysander utter to Hermia: “The course of true love never did run smooth”?
4. Translated from Urdu, the name of which South Asian country means “land of the pure”?
5. Which boxer holds the record for winning the most consecutive fights?
6. To be classed as a bourbon whiskey, in its distilling the mash must be made up of at least 51 per cent of which cereal grain?
7. Released in 1972, what was Elton John’s first number one single, topping the charts in New Zealand, Switzerland, Italy, Canada and the US?
8. An exaltation is the collective name for which bird?
9. Which actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in In the Name of the Father, Lincoln and My Left Foot?
10. In 1986, the spacecraft Voyager 2 made the first, and so far only, fly-by of which planet in our solar system?

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QUIZ ANSWERS

1. First sale of beer in a can
2. Point
3. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
4. Pakistan
5. Wanheng Menayothin
6. Corn
7. Crocodile Rock
8. Lark
9. Daniel Day-Lewis
10. Uranus

Questions set by John Cunnane