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1. Dumbledore

2. Nicosia (Cyprus) and Lisbon (Portugal)

3. A marriage between a god and a goddess

4. The MIR space station hit the Pacific Ocean. MIR means 'peace' or 'world'

5. Pulp Fiction

6. Two answers
    a. Scotland (Edinburgh)
    b. India (Madras)

7. Breach

8. "I swear by Apollo"

9. Eleven answers
    a. Money Money Money (ABBA)
    b. Wall Street Shuffle (10cc)
    c. Money (Pink Floyd)
    d. Whisky in the Jar (Thin Lizzy)
    e. The Money Song (Monty Python)
    f. Money (That's what I want) (Barrett Strong)
    g. Matthew & Son (Cat Stevens)
    h. Gypsies Tramps and Thieves (Cher)
    i. Mean Mr. Mustard (Beatles)
    j. The Gambler (Kenny Rogers)
    k. Come and get it (Badfinger)

10. Avatar

11. NYYC (New York Yacht Club)

12. Go into space

13. Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)

14. In order: Alan Shearer, Andy Cole, Thierry Henry, Robbie Fowler, Les Ferdinand, Michael Owen, Teddy Sheringham, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dwight Yorke and Robbie Keane.

15. The Sinatra Doctrine (The name alluded to the Frank Sinatra song "My Way" - the Soviet Union was allowing these nations to go their own way)

16. Four answers
    a. George Orwell
    b. John le Carre
    c. Stephan King
    d. Agatha Christie

17. All named after people: San Marino (Saint Marinus), Colombia (Christopher Columbus), Bolivia (Simón Bolívar), the Philippines (Philip II of Spain), Israel (Jacob, alternate name), El Salvador ("The Saviour", Jesus) and Bermuda (Juan de Bermúdez)

18. Correct order is CBDA, 
    c: diameter of the Moon (3,480 km)
    b: length of the Great Wall of China (6,400 km)
    d: length of the Trans-Siberian Railway (9,288 km)
    a: equatorial diameter of the Earth (12,756 km)

19. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ($300m), Spider-Man 3 ($258m) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($250m)

20. Poppycock.  Pop is Dutch for doll, Cack is old English for excrement.

 

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