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122 Grand Prix 15 world titles what sport Motorcycle Racing 18 What is the largest state in the USA Alaska 19 Led Deighton trilogy Game Set Match What 3 Capitals Berlin MexicoLondon 20 Alan Stuart Konigsberg famous as who Woody Allen 21 Which human rights organisation founded 1961 got Nobel 1977 Amnesty International 22 Whose autobiography was The long walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela 23 What was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter Tutankamen tomb 24 Clyde Tonbaugh discovered what planet in 1930 Pluto 25 Who won the women's heptathlon at Seoul in 1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersey 26 Who wrote Northanger Abbey Jayne Austin 27 Who ran through the streets naked crying Eureka Archimedes 28 Who composed the Brandeberg concertos full names Johan Sebastian Bach 29 Who won the World Series in 1987 Minnesota twins 30 What is the correct term of address to the Pope Your Holiness 31 In which city was Alexander Graham Bell born in 1847 Edinburgh 32 Who composed the ballets Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky 33 AG Bell opened school in Boston in 1872 for Teachers of what The Deaf 34 Benjamin Kubelsky 1894 fame as what comedian Jack Benny 35 In the Old Testament what book comes between Obadiah - 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