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(3167) 27 June 2009   Mixed

 
 
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1. 40,000 people flocked to the first day of which show?
 
Great Yorkshire Show
Royal Highland Show
Royal Show
Royal Windsor Horse Show

The Queen made her first official visit to the Royal Highland Show for 25 years when she toured the showground with regular visitor the Princess Royal
 
 
2. Which latest invention that is run on "the fastest motor in the world", ten times quicker than the engine of a Boeing 747 aircraft, was announced yesterday?
 
A Black and Decker automatic lawnmower
A Bosch high speed washing machine
A hand-held Dyson vacuum cleaner
A Honda electric motorcycle

At 104,000 revolutions per minute, the motor turns five times as fast as a Formula 1 engine
 
 
3. A housewife from Hemel Hempstead has discovered a 15th-century gold treasure worth how much with a metal detector?
 
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000

The treasure had been buried four inches below the ground for around 500 years despite repeated ploughing
 
 
4. On this day in which year did the world's first nuclear power station open in Obninsk, near Moscow?
 
1949
1954
1959
1964
 
 
5. Who claimed pole position for the Dutch TT at Assen as he bids to record his 100th Grand Prix victory in Holland on Saturday?
 
Casey Stoner
Dani Pedrosa
Jorge Lorenzo
Valentino Rossi
 
 
6. Who attempted to seize the political initiative on climate change yesterday by calling for rich countries to hand over $100 billion each year to help the developing world cope with the effects of global warming?
 
Barack Obama
Gordon Brown
Hu Jintao
Vladimir Putin
 
 
7. What is the UK's fastest growing website, breaking into the top 40 most visited sites in Britain for the first time?
 
London2012.com
Nhsdirect.nhs.uk
Number10.gov.uk
Twitter.com
 
 
8. Cambridge University launched an appeal yesterday to buy journals, letters, poems and photographs by who?
 
Anne Frank
Rudyard Kipling
Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
 
 
9. Michael Jackson died yesterday. He was the seventh of how many children in his family?
 
7
8
9
10
 
 
10. Which player celebrated their 200th grand slam match at Wimbledon yesterday?
 
Novak Djokovic
Roger Federer
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
 
 
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