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...Planck’s Constant is central to which branch of physics? In which Martin Scorsese film does Sharon Stone play the character Ginger McKenna? “Carreaux” is the French word for which suit of cards?...
...What’s the name of the aviation branch of the Royal Navy? Before Irish independence, what was the only city outside Ireland to return an Irish Nationalist MP to Westminster?...
...The Sweeney — as in the branch of the Metropolitan Police — is Cockney rhyming slang for what? What fruit is used in making the dessert whose German name is Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte?...
...Yet despite doing so, he was sentenced to nine months in jail, and initially transported to Liverpool’s Walton prison, one of Britain’s toughest, where he was only allowed out of his cell for an hour each...
...Which London museum has a branch in Tring, Hertfordshire? What was the surname of the man who, in 1954, founded the religious movement officially known as the Unification Church?...
...(a) The river also turns up at the beginning of The Compleat Angler by 17th century author Izaak Walton (b) Barbel (c) is one of the species found in the river 21....
...Three workers at the 259-worker Kenyan branch were killed in the attack, in which at least 67 people died. The store “is ash . . . completely burnt”, says Atul Shah, Nakumatt’s head....
...Here was a lender with just one branch taking on the big five UK banks, while a wave of other new entrants queued up to do the same....
...Industry experts believe the toughest challenge for new banks is building market share without a significant branch network....
...On a filing cabinet sits a letter opener, a gift from Royal Bank of Scotland to mark the opening of its branch in the town....
...She and her closest friend were approached by the student branch of the IRA....
...HSBC, which has the last full-time branch in town, is pulling out in June. That isn’t the only closure....
...It is not the first time Wal-Mart has inspired political artistic criticism in New York, one of the few US cities not to have a branch of the retailer....
...Even the name is made up, coined by one of the first residents, Anthony Walton, whose inspiration won him a £20 prize....
...John Sharman, Lincolnshire branch secretary, Unison, for services to local government. Marilyn Sugarhood, for services to Great Ormond Street Hospital, London....
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