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The answers are here:

1. What board game name is the Latin word meaning 'I play' ? Ludo
2. What is the cube root of 8000 (eight thousand)? 20 (twenty)
3. Potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur (sulfur, US-English) are the traditional ingredients of what substance? Gunpowder
4. A heptad is a group or set of how many? Seven (from Greek hepta, seven)
5. What is the international telephone dialling code for Germany? 49
6. A narthex is part of which type of building? Church (the entrance hallway or porch)
7. What is the corolla of a flower commonly known as? Petals
8. For what is www.letour.fr the official website? Tour de France (the annual international bicycle race, lasting three weeks, covering about 3,600km, mainly in France, in various daily stages)
9. What make of Wellington boots did Samantha Cameron buy President Obama's children for the 2010 British Prime Ministerial visit to the USA? Hunters
10. Name the refugee camp near Calais close to the French side of the Chanel Tunnel? Sangatte (the town name Sangatte derives from Flemish, or Dutch, Zandgat, meaning 'gap in the sand' - Sangatte is notable also for Blériot Plage - Blériot Beach - where Louis Blériot took off when he made the first channel crossing by plane, to Dover, 25 July 1909)
11. A sequence of numbers beginning 0, 1, in which each number is the sum of the previous two numbers is named after what Italian mathematician who devised the system? Fibonacci (also known as Leonardo Pisano Bogollo - the ratio between adjacent numbers progressively becomes closer to the 'golden ratio' of approximately 1:1.618, which has been used in art, design and architecture since the late middle-ages, and at a much simpler level is a pleasingly aesthetic formula for sizing a rectagle or positioning a clock on a shelf)
12. A nanosecond equates to what fraction of a second? Billionth (that's 0.000 000 001 of a second)
13. Fines of £5.3m, criticized as paltry and insulting, were imposed on Shell, Total and BP, five years after the huge 2005 explosion and fire at what UK oil storage depot? Buncefield (Hemel Hemstead - the blast, said to be the UK's biggest since the Second World War, registered 2.4 on the Richter scale and was judged to have resulted from serious helath and safety failings)
14. Angelos Epithemiou ex-burger-van proprietor, replaced what quirky drumming baby character on a popular UK TV comedy quiz show? George Dawes (played by Matt Lucas, on Shooting Stars)
15. Name the UK budget holiday company specialising in Turkey and Greece which went bust in July 2010? Goldtrail
16. If an atom were the size of a football pitch its nucleus would be approximately the size of a: Zeppelin; Olympic swimming pool; Squash court; or Football? Football
17. What is the name of the trimmed tree trunk tossed in competition in the Highland Games? Caber
18. Who wrote the poem 'Jabberwocky', which originally featured in one of his novels? Lewis Carroll (in Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There)
19. Arrange these notes according to normal violin tuning, highest to lowest: D A G E ? E A D G (common tuning on other stringed instruments such as mandolins and banjos, each string is tuned a 7th higher, or put more simply, the notes are seven semi-tone steps from each other in the musical scale, C C# D D# E F G G# A A# B)
20. The mnemonic 'Heaven Never Asked Kriegspiel's Extra Rent' helps people remember what chemical group of six elements - and what are they? The Noble Gases- Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, Radon (the term noble gas derives from German, edelgas, first used by Hugo Erdmann 1898 referring to their very low level of reactivity - they were traditionally called the inert gases or the rare gases, although the latter term became inappropriate when Argon was found to be more common than originally thought)
21. In July 2010 Amazon announced that their quarterly volume sales of digital books (ebooks) had exceeded their sales of what in the US for the first time? Hardback books
22. A philtre (in US-English, philter) - pronounced 'filter' - is a potion for what? Love (it's a French word, from the Greek philtron, and philein, to love)
23. Which type of clay takes its name from the Italian for 'baked earth'? Terracotta
24. In rugby union, which position is known only by the number on the shirt? Number Eight
25. The Canadian city of Montreal lies on which river? St Lawerence
26. Who or what is Laura Chinchilla? Costa Rica's first female president (elected May 2010)
27. Wenlock and Mandeville were the mascots of which sporting event? 2012 London Olympics (the characters allude peculiarly to drops of steel from a Bolton steelworks, and are named after the town of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, site of an international games event first held in 1850 with seminal and ongoing connections to the modern Olympics, and Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, site of the first Paralympic Games)
28. Israel Zangwill wrote the 1892 novel 'Children of the ...' what, depicting Jewish life in London? Ghetto
29. Who succeeded John Major as leader of the UK Conservative Party in 1997? William Hague
30. The avocado fruit is named after which part of the body? Testicle (from the Nahuatl Aztec word ahuacatl)

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Here is this weekend's quiz.

1. Which country's use of energy overtook the USA in 2010 to become the world's biggest consumer of power (from oil, coal, water, wind, etc)?
2. What is the name of the small hammer with a circular rubber head used by doctors to test body reflexes, particularly at the knee?
3. In what year was England ruled (technically) by kings called Edward, Harold, Edgar and William, in that order?
4. Ligneous relates to which natural substance?
5. The auto-biographical poem 'The Story of Suicide Sal' was written by which 1930s female outlaw?
6. Who was the US Secretary of State 1973-1977?
7. The Edgbaston Test Cricket Ground is in which English city?
8. The song 'San Quentin', about the California state prison, was written, and subsequently performed there, by which artist, recorded on a live album and British TV documentary?
9. Established 1845, during British colonial rule, the top-selling Straits Times newspaper, and a similarly named stock market index (STI) belongs to which country?
10. What word, which is a type of protective helmet and part of citrus fruit, originally referred to the stem marrow of plants, and now refers figuratively to the core of a subject or argument?
11. The Scandinavian raw dish gravlax is made from which creature?
12. The historic Paddy's Market, supposedly named after or by early 1800s Irish immigrants, and which was closed in May 2009, was situated in which city?
13. Said to refer erroneously to the temperature at which book paper catches fire, the title of Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel about a futuristic society in which reading books is illegal, is called 'Fahrenheit...' what?
14. Irish born missionary Saint Aidan founded a monastery in 653 on which English island, which is also the name of a 1970s UK folk-rock band?
15. Triops Cancriformis, discovered in Scotland in July 2010 and said by scientists to have the oldest pedigree (over 200m years) of any living animal on Earth is what type of creature?
16. In cycling, what colour jersey is worn by the leader of the Tour of Italy?
17. The green of London's Parliament Square was named what by activists during 2010, when sporadic protests developed into a large camp community?
18. In which secure London building was Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess briefly imprisoned in May 1941 after he fled Germany to Scotland?
19. In climatology, pluvial relates to what?
20. What is the method of dyeing fabric in which the parts not to be dyed are covered with removeable wax?
21. Who was the first female film director to win a best film Oscar?
22. What is the only country which extends from the Equator to one of the Tropic lines of latitude?
23. The inactive volcano, Mauna Kea (meaning 'white mountain' in the local native language), is in which US state?
24. Who composed the music for the opera Porgy and Bess, about 1920s African American life in Charleston, South Carolina?
25. Jenny Shipley was the first female prime minister of which country?
26. The mineral and ore pitchblende is rich in what radioactive element, after which it is now named?
27. Bianca is the younger sister of Katherina in which Shakespeare comedy play?
28. Manchester United's 2010 Spanish signing nicknamed Chicharito means what in Spanish?
29. On which item of dress would a cockade normally be worn?
30. Natives of which English city are known as Loiners?
31. A kittel, or kitl, is what, traditionally worn by male Jews?
32. Which comedy duo starred in the 1967 film 'Bedazzled'?
33. A dageurreotype was an early type of what?
34. What is the one-sleeved half-jacket worn under a jacket as additional protection in the sport of fencing?
35. Cnut the Great, who ruled Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden from 1018-35, is commonly known by what other name, particularly relating to a story of attempting to 'rule the sea'?

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Is number 1 China?

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That's one of the few i was going to have a guess at

7. Birmingham?

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1 each for Miss H and PK

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2. is it not just called the reflex hammer?
6. Henry Kissenger
13. 451
23. certainly sounds like its Hawaiian
27. Taming of the Shrew

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3. 1066

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1. China
2. Plexor
3.1066
5. Bonnie Parker
6. Henry Kissinger
7. Birmingham
8. Johnny Cash
10. Pith
11. Salmon
13.451
14. Lindisfarne
18. Tower of London
19. Rainfall
22. Brazil
23. Hawaii
25. New Zealand
26. Uranium
29. Hat
32. Pete & Dud
35. Canute

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9. Singapore
16. Pink
21. Kathryn Bigelow
24. George Gershwin
33. Photograph

Well done 1BB - All correct.
Well done, Paul, all correct.

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and here is the full list of questions with the answers

1. Which country's use of energy overtook the USA in 2010 to become the world's biggest consumer of power (from oil, coal, water, wind, etc)? China
2. What is the name of the small hammer with a circular rubber head used by doctors to test body reflexes, particularly at the knee? Plexor (from Greek, plexis, percusssion, and plessein, to strike)
3. In what year was England ruled (technically) by kings called Edward, Harold, Edgar and William, in that order? 1066(Edward the Confessor, Harold II or Harold Godwinson, Edgar the Ætheling, and William I or William the Conqueror - Edgar the Ætheling did not hold on to power long enough after Harold II's defeat by William I at Hastings to be crowned)
4. Ligneous relates to which natural substance? Wood (Latin, lignus, wood)
5. The auto-biographical poem 'The Story of Suicide Sal' was written by which 1930s female outlaw? Bonnie Parker(partner of Clyde Barrow - 'Bonnie and Clyde' were killed by police in Louisiana, 1934)
6. Who was the US Secretary of State 1973-1977? Henry Kissinger
7. The Edgbaston Test Cricket Ground is in which English city? Birmingham
8. The song 'San Quentin', about the California state prison, was written, and subsequently performed there, by which artist, recorded on a live album and British TV documentary? Johnny Cash
9. Established 1845, during British colonial rule, the top-selling Straits Times newspaper, and a similarly named stock market index (STI) belongs to which country? Singapore
10. What word, which is a type of protective helmet and part of citrus fruit, originally referred to the stem marrow of plants, and now refers figuratively to the core of a subject or argument? Pith (from pitha, and old Germanic word - pith is the spongy tissue inside citrus fruit rind - a pith helmet is made from the dried pith of the Asian flowering sola pith plant)
11. The Scandinavian raw dish gravlax is made from which creature? Salmon (from the Scandinavian grav, meaning grave, and lax, salmon - literally 'buried salmon' - because fishermen traditionally prepared it by burying it in sand just above the high-tide line, to ferment it)
12. The historic Paddy's Market, supposedly named after or by early 1800s Irish immigrants, and which was closed in May 2009, was situated in which city? Glasgow
13. Said to refer erroneously to the temperature at which book paper catches fire, the title of Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel about a futuristic society in which reading books is illegal, is called 'Fahrenheit...' what? 451(apparently book paper catches fire at 450 degrees Celsius/Centigrade, or 842 degrees Fahrenheit, and Bradbury has subsequently stated that he was misinformed by his local fire department when researching the question)
14. Irish born missionary Saint Aidan founded a monastery in 653 on which English island, which is also the name of a 1970s UK folk-rock band? Lindisfarne
15. Triops Cancriformis, discovered in Scotland in July 2010 and said by scientists to have the oldest pedigree (over 200m years) of any living animal on Earth is what type of creature? Shrimp
16. In cycling, what colour jersey is worn by the leader of the Tour of Italy? Pink
17. The green of London's Parliament Square was named what by activists during 2010, when sporadic protests developed into a large camp community? Democracy Village (facing eviction, the protestors lost a court appeal in July 2010)
18. In which secure London building was Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess briefly imprisoned in May 1941 after he fled Germany to Scotland? The Tower of London (Hess was apparently the last state prisoner to be held in the Tower - after interrogation and moves to various other parts of the UK, Hess was tried at Nuremberg in 1946 and sentenced to life imprisonment - he committed suicide in 1987 age 93 in Spandau Prison, West Berlin, where he was its last prisoner - Spandau was demolished after his death)
19. In climatology, pluvial relates to what? Rainfall (from Latin pluvia, meaning rain)
20. What is the method of dyeing fabric in which the parts not to be dyed are covered with removeable wax? Batik (it originated on the Indonesian island Java - it means painted in Javanese - the Indonesian capital city Jakarta is on Java - Indonesia comprises over 17,500 islands..)
21. Who was the first female film director to win a best film Oscar? Kathryn Bigelow (for The Hurt Locker 2009)
22. What is the only country which extends from the Equator to one of the Tropic lines of latitude? Brazil (the Equator passes through the far north of Brazil close to Belem; the Tropic of Capricorn passes through Sao Paulo in the south)
23. The inactive volcano, Mauna Kea (meaning 'white mountain' in the local native language), is in which US state? Hawaii
24. Who composed the music for the opera Porgy and Bess, about 1920s African American life in Charleston, South Carolina? George Gershwin
25. Jenny Shipley was the first female prime minister of which country? New Zealand (1997-99)
26. The mineral and ore pitchblende is rich in what radioactive element, after which it is now named? Uranium (modern name uraninite - in German, pitchblende refers to its blackness and dense metallic nature, and was used by German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth in discovering the element uranium in 1789, which he named after the planet Uranus)
27. Bianca is the younger sister of Katherina in which Shakespeare comedy play? The Taming of the Shrew
28. Manchester United's 2010 Spanish signing nicknamed Chicharito means what in Spanish? Little Pea
29. On which item of dress would a cockade normally be worn? Hat (a cockade is a rosette or knot of ribbons, typically a badge of office - the word derives from French coquard/cocarde, alluding to a 'saucy' decoration on a female bonnet)
30. Natives of which English city are known as Loiners? Leeds (the origin is uncertain - theories include: a distortion of the early Loidis city name first recorded c.730; or from the 'Low Inns' entrances to the old central Briggate street area; or a distortion of Briggate's 'lanes')
31. A kittel, or kitl, is what, traditionally worn by male Jews? Burial shroud (it's a white robe, sometimes also worn on ceremonial occasions - it means robe in Yiddish, which is the Jewish language descended and spread from the Jewish communities in medieval Germany)
32. Which comedy duo starred in the 1967 film 'Bedazzled'? Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
33. A dageurreotype was an early type of what? Photograph (produced on chemically treated silver, named after its French artist and chemist inventor Louis Daguerre, 1787-1851)
34. What is the one-sleeved half-jacket worn under a jacket as additional protection in the sport of fencing? Plastron
35. Cnut the Great, who ruled Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden from 1018-35, is commonly known by what other name, particularly relating to a story of attempting to 'rule the sea'? King Canute (the story of Canute commanding the incoming tide to retreat, from his throne on a beach, and getting wet feet, sadly and perhaps unsurprisingly has yet to be firmly verified)

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Your weekend quiz starts here:



1. On which island was Nelson Mandela incarcerated for 27 years, from 1962-90?
2. Pertussis is the medical term for which childhood illness?
3. In which European country are the Altamira cave paintings?
4. Who unexpectedly beat Jimmy Connors in the 1975 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?
5. What is a musical composition for nine voices or instruments?
6. In 1994, the USA lifted a nineteen year trade ban for which country?
7. By what name did the 1932-33 England-Australia cricket series become known, after the visiting English team, notably fast bowler Harold Larwood, employed controversial tactics of bowling at batsmen's heads and chests, rather than the wicket?
8. Abhorson is an executioner in which Shakespeare play?
9. In which ocean is the island of Madeira?
10. Who is generally considered to have invented the first electric battery cell in 1800?
11. What Japanese expression derives from two colloquial Japanese words meaning 'belly cutting'?
12. In which country was escapologist Harry Houdini born?
13. How many Oscars did the 1994 film 'Forrest Gump' win?
14. In geology, a coomb or combe is a type of what?
15. Put these UK police ranks in order, lowest to highest: Superintendent; Chief Constable; Chief Inspector; Sergeant; Detective Constable?
16. What is the main ingredient of the Italian dish frittata?
17. What is the capital of Latvia?
18. What word generally referring to a type of slave or servant, and used figuratively for an ineffectual or powerless man, derives from Greek words meaning 'bed' and 'hold' or 'keep'?
19. Plew is a term for the pelt of which animal?
20. Which is the largest joint in the human body?
21. Which designer is famous for his/her red-soled footwear?
22. How many separate terms did William Gladstone serves as Prime Minister of Britain?
23. How many stars are on the national flag of China?
24. Scottish mathematician and scientist John Napier (1550-1617) pioneered the use of what?
25. A miller's thumb is what type of creature?
26. What was Alexander the Great's famous horse, whose Greek name translates to mean 'ox-head'?
27. Which spice comes from the rhizome (root-stalk) of the plant Zingaber Officionale?
28. During which month is Republic Day in Italy?
29. From the Greek 'pro' meaning 'before' and 'gignoskein' meaning 'know', what medical term refers to the predicted course and outcome of an illness, and increasingly to forecasting other complex situations?
30. What trade is the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme intended to regulate?

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7. Bodyline
10. Mr Volta just before Penzance man Sir Humphrey Davey
14. Valley
21. Christian Louboutin

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11. Hari Kari
12. Hungary
16. egg
29. prognosis

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6 is it South Africa
20 hip
21 Christian louboutin
29 prognosis
9 Atlantic

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Home at last

1. Robben Island
3. Spain
5. Nonet?
6. Vietnam
9. Atlantic
10. Volta
11. Hari Kari
12. Hungary
14. Valley
15. DC, Sergeant, C.I, Supt, Chief Constable
17. Riga
19. Beaver
20. Knee
21. Laboutin
24. Log tables
26 Bosephalus
27. Ginger
29. Prognosis
30. Diamonds

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Well done everyone. Excellent answers. Only Miss H's guess at South Africa was incorrect.
Napier also introduced the decimal point (or comma).
The spelling of Bucephalus (or Buchephalas) was close enough.

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What about hip and knee, are they both correct?

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Oops, I missed that one.

Full set of questions and answers follows:

1. On which island was Nelson Mandela incarcerated for 27 years, from 1962-90? Robben Island
2. Pertussis is the medical term for which childhood illness? Whooping Cough (Latin, per means extreme, tussis means cough)
3. In which European country are the Altamira cave paintings? Spain (Altimira, Spanish for high view, is a World Heritage site - near Santillana del Mar, Cantabria about 20 miles west of the northern port city of Santander - the paintings are 25-35,000 years old)
4. Who unexpectedly beat Jimmy Connors in the 1975 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final? Arthur Ashe (as at 2010, Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr., 1943-1993, is the only African American man to win the Wimbledon, US Open, and Australian singles titles - Yannick Noah of France is the only other man of black African ancestry to win a Grand Slam singles title, the French Open in 1983)
5. What is a musical composition for nine voices or instruments? Nonet
6. In 1994, the USA lifted a nineteen year trade ban for which country? Vietnam
7. By what name did the 1932-33 England-Australia cricket series become known, after the visiting English team, notably fast bowler Harold Larwood, employed controversial tactics of bowling at batsmen's heads and chests, rather than the wicket? Bodyline (the ploy was developed mainly against the prodigious run-making of Donald Bradman - England won the series 4-1, regaining the Ashes, but created huge controversy, bad feeling, and prompted rule changes to limit such methods in future)
8. Abhorson is an executioner in which Shakespeare play? Measure For Measure
9. In which ocean is the island of Madeira? Atlantic (an autonomous region of Portugal and of the EU, 520 km from Africa and 1,000 km from Europe - from where Madeira wine originated, a fortified wine, discovered and developed due to long-term storage at sea - Maderia cake however is a traditional English light sponge, so called because it was commonly served with Madeira wine)
10. Who is generally considered to have invented the first electric battery cell in 1800? Alessandro Volta (Italian physicist, 1745–1827, after whom the unit of electromotive force, the volt, and voltage, are named)
11. What Japanese expression derives from two colloquial Japanese words meaning 'belly cutting'? Hara-Kiri (loosely meaning suicide in Western language, it refers in Japanese more precisely to ritual disembowelment with a sword, traditionally practised by samurai warriors as an honourable alternative to disgrace or execution)
12. In which country was escapologist Harry Houdini born? Hungary
13. How many Oscars did the 1994 film 'Forrest Gump' win? Six
14. In geology, a coomb or combe is a type of what? Valley (technically a dry valley in a chalk or limestone escarpment, which is a sort of wedge-shaped hill formed by faults or erosion between layered rock formations)
15. Put these UK police ranks in order, lowest to highest: Superintendent; Chief Constable; Chief Inspector; Sergeant; Detective Constable? Detective Constable, Sergeant, Chief Inspector, Superintendent, Chief Constable (the term detective indicates training and departmental assignment not rank; UK police detective and uniformed titles are generally equal rank)
16. What is the main ingredient of the Italian dish frittata? Eggs (fritatta is a deep fluffy omelette, variously including meat, cheese, herbs, vegetables, etc - the eggs are initially beaten to lighten the mixture with air)
17. What is the capital of Latvia? Riga
18. What word generally referring to a type of slave or servant, and used figuratively for an ineffectual or powerless man, derives from Greek words meaning 'bed' and 'hold' or 'keep'? Eunuch (eunuchs were castrated men, typically castrated as boys so as to prevent normal masculine development through puberty, to be suitable for certain duties in ancient societies, typically protecting females in the harem of a wealthy and powerful man - hence the name)
19. Plew is a term for the pelt of which animal? Beaver (from 19th century Canadian French pelu, hairy, and French poil, bristle)
20. Which is the largest joint in the human body? Knee
21. Which designer is famous for his/her red-soled footwear? Christian Louboutin (he was born in France 1964 - his red sole design is subject of trademark protection)
22. How many separate terms did William Gladstone serves as Prime Minister of Britain? Four (1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94)
23. How many stars are on the national flag of China? Five (one big one, top left, and four smaller ones in a vertical arc to its right, all golden/yellow on a red background)
24. Scottish mathematician and scientist John Napier (1550-1617) pioneered the use of what? Logarithms and the decimal point
25. A miller's thumb is what type of creature? Fish (more formally known as the European bullhead, and also called a tommy logge, it is a freshwater fish found widely in Europe)
26. What was Alexander the Great's famous horse, whose Greek name translates to mean 'ox-head'? Bucephalus (or Buchephalas)
27. Which spice comes from the rhizome (root-stalk) of the plant Zingaber Officionale? Ginger
28. During which month is Republic Day in Italy? June
29. From the Greek 'pro' meaning 'before' and 'gignoskein' meaning 'know', what medical term refers to the predicted course and outcome of an illness, and increasingly to forecasting other complex situations? Prognosis
30. What trade is the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme intended to regulate? Diamond (established by the United Nations in 2003, following meetings in Kimberley, South Africa, a major city in diamond mining and trading - the scheme seeks to prevent diamonds financing wars and also implicitly the trade in 'blood diamonds', being stones resulting from or associated with violence/crime/conflict)

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21.: What about red-and-price-tagged-soled footwear? Is it trademarked too?

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Just because it is your birthday tomorrow!

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Is it?

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is that another quiz question?

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