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1 Whose Hours was the first major album to debut as digital download?

2 Which play did Janet Suzman controversially direct in Johannesburg in 1987?

3 Zener cards are used in tests for what ability?

4 Ogham script was used to write which language?

5 In official secrets, what is the NCND principle?

6 Which temperature scale is named after William Thomson?

7 What vast region separates the Sahara and the tropical savannas?

8 Which film told the story of SOE agent Violette Szabo?
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4 Ogham script was used to write which language? Celtic of the Irish variety

7 What vast region separates the Sahara and the tropical savannas? The Sahel
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3 Zener cards are used in tests for what ability?
ESP?
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6 Which temperature scale is named after William Thomson?
That’s Lord Kelvin! Quite famous in Scotland.
So the Kelvin scale
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8 Which film told the story of SOE agent Violette Szabo?
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1, Bowie
5. Neither confirm nor deny
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7/8, pretty good...

1 David Bowie (1999).
2 Othello.
3 Extra-sensory perception.
4 Irish (and Pictish).
5 Neither confirm nor deny.
6 Kelvin.
7 Sahel.
8 Carve Her Name with Pride.
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