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- Apple – Samsung which delivered more than 60m devices in the first quarter of this year to Apple’s 50.1m over the same period)
- Seattle – Nirvana is arguably the best-known grunge band to emerge from Seattle.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- a) – every two years.
- Dubai. Experts put the bizarre occurrence down to global warming with more grim predictions in the future. – b) Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta has been ranked as the busiest airport for a few years now.
- Eddie Murphy
- c) – North America
- c) – Breathing
- a) – Nestlé – last year the pledge was for sales of “more nutritious” products to be 50% by 2030. However, some shareholders regarded this target as being too lax, given rising obesity levels in the world. The “rebel” shareholders were out voted, so KitKats are safe for the immediate future.
- 10.2 – Africa and Asia, respectively, the Cape and the Water buffalo. Bison found in North America and Europe are often incorrectly labelled buffalo. This error derives from the French “boeuf” which was applied to bison by French fur trappers working in the US in the early 17th century.
- 11.Hercule Poirot
- 12.Italy – four military assaults by the Allies against the German defensive line 140km south east of Rome. It lasted four months (17 January to 18 May) in 1944.
- 13.Zips. The chances are that the zip on your clothing bears the letters YKK.
- 14.The old stock exchange, the Borsen, which was completed in 1625. The cause of the fire is unknown.
- 15.b) – it’s only one sixth of Earth’s gravity.
- 16.b) – supple and lithe
- 17.A monument honouring a dead person (or people) buried elsewhere – a) Empty tomb
- 18.It is an island that’s part of the US state of Florida.
- 19.False – China estimates that the policy prevented the birth of around 400 million people.
- 20.a) – London – using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives, the railway opened in 1863 and carried 38 000 passengers on its first day.
