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The questions

1 Who has won the Turner prize and an Oscar?2 Where are the Meroë pyramids?3 Who is the world’s richest female entertainer?4 Uranium, polonium and radium were first discovered in what mineral?5 Which sport was made compulsory in 1363?6 In Jamaican cooking, what is mannish water?7 Which writer owned the Tarzana ranch in California?8 Ganzfeld experiments are designed to test for what ability?