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- Lack of clarity, vagueness or obscurity.
- Rowing and Tug of War.
- a) – only 15% landed where they were planned to be.
- Earth
- Quebec
- Keith Richard
- Mexico – Claudia Sheinbaum, a PhD engineering graduate, a Nobel prizewinner and an accomplished ballet dancer, won a landslide victory with 56% of the vote – her nearest challenger only garnered 30%. She faces tough economic and security challenges ahead.
- Fractions
- c) Paris
- 10.Bats – two species thereof, the long-tailed bat and the lesser short-tailed bat. Māori folklore refer to bats as pekapeka.
- 11.True – it is regarded as a compliment to the chef and a sign of appreciation. Not all Asian countries share the same acceptance, but some do.
- 12.b) St Petersburg – The Lakhta Centre, standing at 462 metres, was completed in January 2018. It is the headquarters of Gazprom, the state-owned energy corporation.
- 13.New York City – the scheme was intended to fund the decaying public transport system (mainly the subways where signalling equipment that dates back to the 1930s). NY's Democratic governor is wary of Republican voters in the suburbs who primarily commute by car and are opposed to the scheme.
- 14.Peaquod – Herman Melville.
- 15.John Williams (Music) – his music has also been nominated in 49 other film titles.
- 16.b) – a fern (Tmesipteris oblanceolate) endemic to the island and to some of the neighbouring South Pacific islands. It belongs to a group of plants that evolved long before the advent of dinosaurs and grows on the trunks and branches of trees as opposed to in the ground. This simple plant has 50 times more DNA than humans. The genome, as it is referred to, provides the organism with all the information it needs to function, and is stored in long strands of DNA called chromosomes.
- 17.Basking shark, after the whale shark.
- 18.Music Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles – Money for Nothing.
- 19.a) – Jefferson Davis. Robert E Lee was one of the confederate generals.
- 20.Stainless Steel.