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Which one of the following dot.coms managed to avoid becoming a dot.gone? |
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Boxman.co.uk |
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TheStreet.co.uk |
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Boo.com |
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Lastminute.com |
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What was notable about the US premiere of the Liz Hurley movie Bedazzled? |
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Ex-boyfriend Hugh Grant and Hurley appeared to be very much in love |
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Nobody stayed to watch the film
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Grant threw water over Hurley's new companion, the Hollywood actor Robert De Niro |
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Angry union members branded Hurley a strike breaker and scab |
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Which department store shut 109 UK branches? |
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BHS |
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Littlewoods |
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Marks and Spencer |
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C&A |
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Which bug spread from the Philippines? |
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BSE |
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The millennium bug |
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The love bug computer virus |
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Flu |
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Which autumn crisis hit first? |
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British floods |
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Petrol shortages |
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Paralysis of the UK rail network |
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Impasse in the US election |
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Who did a judge rule were "expensive bastards"? |
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British Airways |
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The BBC, due to the licence fee |
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High street CD retailers |
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Virgin trains |
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| New entries |
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How did Eric the Eel make his name at the Olympics? |
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Became the first athlete to record a positive dope test |
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Fought off shark attacks in Sydney harbour to win the triathlon |
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Won a swimming heat in a record slow time |
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Took the gold medal in four track and two swimming events
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And who, or what, was Fatso the Wombat? |
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The official Olympic mascot |
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An obese marsupial who defecated gold |
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An affectionate nickname for Australian weightlifter Kiril Kounev |
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A keen spectator at Sydney zoo who watched every minute of the games |
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Which of the Big Brother housemates was the first to be expelled? |
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Sada |
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Caroline |
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Andrew |
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Thomas |
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Pierre-Yves Gerbeau was brought in to save the Millennium Dome but who, did some reports suggest, were his new employers really after? |
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Former Canadian prime minister , the late Pierre Trudeau |
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Jean-Marie Gerbeaux, previously a Disney executive and now head of French national rail |
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Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent |
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Footballer Pierre van Hooijdonk
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Which relative unknown took the lead in Oliver Reed's final film? |
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Guy Pearce |
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Ben Stiller
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Jamie Bell
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Russell Crowe |
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Who stopped Victoria Beckham reaching number one with her first non-Spice Girls single? |
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Spiller |
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Mary Mary |
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Bob the builder |
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Craig David |
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| International affairs |
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What were armed US agents looking for when they made a raid on a house in Miami? |
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Crack cocaine |
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An escaped crocodile |
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A missing ballot box |
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Elian Gonzalez, six-year-old Cuban boy |
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Businessman George Speight ousted Fiji's prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, this year in a coup. How else were the two connected? |
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Mr Speight was a political appointee making money from the country's lucrative timber trade until Mr Chaudhry sacked him |
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They are both masons - but from different lodges |
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As junior members of rival political parties they used to fall out, and sometimes physically fight, in the Fijian parliament's bars |
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Young Chaudhry used to bully the boy he called "Georgy-porgy" while the two were at school |
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Who, according to a leaked medical report, "has developed difficulty in shaving without cutting himself"? |
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General Pinochet |
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Gary Glitter |
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Brian Blessed |
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Prince Philip |
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How did Japan lose its prime minister, Keizo Obuchi? |
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An assassin shot the PM while he jogged in Tokyo
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He suffered a stroke and went into a coma
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He was found guilty of treason and exiled to Korea
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He was hit by a speeding car |
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Which European leader went to number two in his country's singles chart with the words: "Get me a bottle of beer or I'm going to go on strike here"? |
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Paavo Lipponen of Finland |
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Gerhard Schröder of Germany |
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Jose Maria Aznar of Spain |
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Jacques Chirac of France |
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Who held six Royal Irish regiment soldiers hostage in Sierra Leone? |
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The West Side Boys |
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Members of the Liberian army |
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Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front
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The People's Freedom Alliance of Sierra Leone
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What did North Korean leader Kim Jong-il wear to a meeting with his southern counterpart, Kim Dae Jung? |
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Cuban heels and bootcut flares |
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Military uniform |
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A traditional Chugori (shirt) with Paji (trousers)
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Top hat and tails |
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| Moving up |
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Boris Yeltsin resigned on New Year's Eve 1999. Who immediately replaced him? |
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Boris Berezovsky |
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Vladimir Putin |
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Yevgeny Primakov |
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Leonid Kuchma |
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Who is Michael Martin? |
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Director general of the BBC
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The lucky bachelor who won £5.6m on the National Lottery |
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The House of Commons' new speaker |
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Eminem (it's his real name) |
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Bashar Al-Assad became Syrian president. What were his qualifications?
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His father had the job before him |
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He led the largest party in parliament
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He ousted the sitting president in a coup |
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The former general forced an Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon |
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After the US election, George W Bush retired to his ranch in Texas. What did running mate Dick Cheney do? |
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Developed a boil |
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Worked on plans for Bush's campaign in 2004 |
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Had a minor heart attack |
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Flew to Tennessee and begged Al Gore to concede |
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Whose resignation landed Sven Goran Eriksson a job? |
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Terry Venables |
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Kevin Keegan
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Glenn Hoddle |
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Bobby Robson
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Michael Portillo joined the shadow cabinet. What is his job? |
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Deputy leader |
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Shadow foreign secretary |
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Shadow chancellor |
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Spokesman without portfolio |
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| Who said: |
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"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully"? |
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Captain Birdseye |
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George W Bush |
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David Icke |
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UN secretary general Kofi Annan |
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"I am listening, I hear and I will act"? |
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Al Gore |
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Tony Blair |
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Michael Portillo |
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Nasty Nick |
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"I enjoy being with my friends, going to the cinema, and watching football and rugby matches"? |
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Madonna
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Will Carling
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Prince William |
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Britney Spears |
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"You worked hard so you didn't feel you'd drunk 10 pints by 4 o'clock - you used to sweat so much"? |
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Les Dennis |
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William Hague |
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Bruce Forsyth |
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Jim Davidson |
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"We are asking pardon for attitudes of mistrust and hostility assumed towards followers of other religions"? |
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Yasser Arafat |
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The Pope |
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Ehud Barak |
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The Queen |
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"The American people have spoken. It's too bad it's going to take a little while to determine what it was they had to say"? |
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Bill Clinton
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Tom Wolfe |
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Jerry Springer |
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David Letterman |
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| Sound and pictures |
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At the beginning of the year, BBC1 showed the Nine o'Clock news and ITV had the News at Ten. What happens now?
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Sky News fills both slots while ITV and the BBC have ditched news in favour of the docusoap |
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BBC1 has the 10pm bulletin and Sky News puts a programme on at 9pm |
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ITV fills the 9pm slot and BBC1 follows at 10pm |
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The terrestrial channels go head to head at 5.30am with their flagship news shows |
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Which hospital drama was sampled on Oxide and Neutrino's single Bound 4 Da Reload? |
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Flying Doctors
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Holby City |
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Casualty
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ER |
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Billy Elliot told the story of a boy doing what during the miners' strike? |
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Learning ballet
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Washing bottles to support his family |
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Escaping a privileged upbringing in Surrey to join the picket line |
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Cutting down firewood for fuel |
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Who planned a wedding for Skibo castle, Scotland?
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Gordon Brown and Sarah Macaulay |
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Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones |
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Zoe Ball and Norman Cook |
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Madonna and Guy Ritchie |
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Who is related to the first TV quiz show millionaire? |
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Princess Anne
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Edward Heath |
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Tara Palmer Tomkinson |
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Camilla Parker Bowles |
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How did Victor Meldrew die in the last episode of One Foot in the Grave? |
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Fell off a crane |
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Knocked down by a hit and run driver
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Food poisoning |
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Stabbed by a mugger |
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| Home news |
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Why, in the mad month of August, did a mob harass an innocent doctor in Wales?
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She had been named and shamed as a paedophile in the News of the World |
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An aggrieved ex-patient fabricated child sex allegations against her to extract revenge |
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The mob heard she was a paediatrician but failed to find out what it meant |
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They found out she had been practising without medical qualifications |
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The Guardian announced it was to challenge which constitutional document? |
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The Treaty of Rome
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The Magna Carta |
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The Bill of Rights
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The Act of Settlement |
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How did Frank Dobson respond to Chris Evans's public support for Ken Livingstone on his breakfast radio show?
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Said his mother told him never to trust redheads |
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Set up DobboFM to mock the media mogul |
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Threatened legal action |
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Got him expelled from the Labour party |
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Who or what would Ken Livingstone like to see removed from Trafalgar Square? |
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Tourists |
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Black cabs |
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The National Gallery
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Sir Henry Havelock and Sir Charles Napier |
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How did eight members of the shadow cabinet follow up Ann Widdecombe's plans for £100 fines for the possession of cannabis?
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Demanded capital punishment for soft drug use |
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Admitted they had smoked the drug |
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Begged her to oust Hague and lead them to electoral triumph |
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Defected to the Labour party |
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Bodyguard Michael Slade fired two shots on the royal train as the Queen slept nearby. How did the accident happen? |
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His mobile phone rang and he reached for the wrong pocket
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He was trying to convince a lady-in-waiting it was a real gun
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He was taking off his holster to do stretching exercises
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The safety catch slipped while he was cleaning the weapon |
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How did Euan Blair embarrass his father? |
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Tried to sell off the prime minister's personal papers to buy a chrome scooter |
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Said he would vote Tory |
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Refused to appear in a family photograph with baby Leo |
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Got drunk in central London after finishing his GCSEs |
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| Upsets |
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He won it, lost it, then threatened legal action. What was Sir Richard Branson fighting for?
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A seven year licence to run the national lottery |
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A place in the House of Lords |
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To become first London mayor |
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The US presidency |
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Anthea Turner's autobiography sold 451 copies in its first week. What was it called? |
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My foolish heart |
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Fools rush in |
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I was a teenage chocoholic |
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt |
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Who pulled out of an election against Hillary Clinton for a New York senate seat? |
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Jeb Bush |
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Bob Dole |
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Rudolph Giuliani |
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Rick Lazio |
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Which comedian was accused of mocking black people? |
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Sacha Baron Cohen |
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Lenny Henry |
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Ben Elton |
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Ronnie Corbett |
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What did Phil Neville do in England's last Euro2000 match? |
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Scored a heroic goal in injury time to win the tournament |
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Broke his leg |
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Conceded a penalty |
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Scored an own goal
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How many times did Railtrack boss Gerald Corbett tender his
resignation? |
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None - he was sacked
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Three times
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Twice |
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Once |
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