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- Why did Louis IX order table knives to have rounded rather than pointed ends?
- To stop his dinner guests stabbing each other.
- Which Country produces the greatest number of varieties of sausage?
- Germany - over 2,000 and counting!
- What is the motto of the FBI?
- Fidelity, Integrity, Bravery
- Recite the shortest verse in the Bible.
- Jesus Wept (John 11:35)
- On which H.G.Wells novel was the play 'Half a Sixpence' based?
- Kipps
- The Local Defense Volunteers were renamed what?
- The Home Guard
- Which great English contralto dies of cancer in 1953?
- Kathleen Ferrier
- What interval separated the first controlled atomic reaction and the first atomic explosion?
- 2 years 7 months (Dec 1942 to July 1945)
- Who is the patron saint of shoemakers?
- Saint Crispin
- In 1685 the Earl of Argyll was the last person to be executed by which method?
- Guillotine (will accept Scottish Maiden)