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- A long-term experiment to demonstrate the viscosity of pitch (bitumen) at Australia's University of Queensland saw how many drops fall from a funnel of pitch between 1930-2012: 8,000, 800, 80, or 8?
- What British army bugle call used at funerals originally signalled the end of the military day after final inspection?
- The main purpose of a bowline knot is to produce a: Loop (at a rope-end); Join (to another rope); Join (to a ring or post); or Stop (in roller/retaining devices)?
- Who, founder of the Mongol Empire, was the grandfather of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan (1215-94)?
- Meaning 'quiet loud' what is the full modern Italian name for the piano?
- Which people originated the game lacrosse? Dutch; Scottish; Native Americans; or Chinese?
- Previously called Ezo/Yezo/Yeso/Yesso, what is Japan's north and second-largest island?
- What name for a type of railings/fence originally referred to a defensive line of wooden stakes sharpened and angled into the ground?
- Which two creatures support the shield on Australia's official Coat of Arms (symbol)?
- What is the traditional Italian name for the text of an opera or musical?
- The North Atlantic Drift ocean current over NW Europe starts as what at the US Florida Strait?
- Cassia refers to variants of which spice?
- Chordata, Echinodermata, Anthropoda, and Anelida are four phyla (subgroups) of: Animals; Worms; Birds; or Plants?
- What hero from Greek mythology was killed by a discus thrown by Apollo, who then named a flower after him, made from his spilled blood?
- Which country since the late 1900s has governed/overseen the increasing independence of the New Caledonia archipelago, east of Australia?
- Lentils grow on: Trees; Bushes; Grasses; or Water?
- What gambling game is also a term for a perforating tool/process, e.g., to sheets of postage stamps?
- Serpula lacrymans is the technical name for what affliction of wood, notably in buildings?
- Someone whose occupation is a gillie (or ghillie) works where: Slaughterhouse; Airport; Post-office; or Scottish Highlands?
- What two-faced Roman god of beginnings and transitions is a name for a word which has two opposite meanings, and the derivation of the first month of the year?
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