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Q1. Which author, who wrote "Portrait Of A Lady", "The American" and "Roderick Hudson", was born in New York in 1843 and became a naturalised Englishman in 1915?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in April 2009
A
Henry James
B
A A Milne
C
Arthur Miller
D
James Joyce
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Q2. What is the traditional name for someone who is a professional copyist or writer of formal documents, such as deeds or contracts?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in December 2009
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Slaverer
B
Scratcher
C
Scrivener
D
Ostler
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Q3. Which 16th century Venetian, born Jacopo Robusti, studied under Titian and painted "St George and the Dragon", "Belshazzar's Feast", "The Last Supper" and "Paradise"?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in June 2010
A
Dali
B
Tintoretto
C
Rigoletto
D
Caravaggio
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Q4. How did Boudica (also spelled Boudicca or Boadicea), Queen of the Iceni, die in 63 AD?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in July 2010
A
She poisoned herself
B
An arrow through her right eye
C
Pushed off the Cliffs of Dover
D
Dragged behind a horse
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Q5. What is the modern game called, that was published by Milton Bradley Company in 1943 as the pad-and-pencil game "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy"?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in May 2010
A
Battleships
B
Tron
C
Connect Four
D
Dominoes
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Q6. What is "hydrophobia" applied to?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in January 2011 and updated in January 2023
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Fear of enclosed spaces
B
Fear of power stations
C
Rabies
D
Reluctance to clean the bath
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Q7. Which of these countries is the furthest north?

Sunday Archive: Originally published in September 2009
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Belgium
B
France
C
Netherlands
D
Denmark
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