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Pub quiz question 6178 by pjh2

Question: Q: After 75 years of analogue TV transmission, BBC Director Greg Dyke turned off which transmitter in London?
Answer: A: Crystal Palace
Notes: *: 2012
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Pub quiz question 6487 by pjh2

Question: Q: Selling at $120 million, which painting became the most expensive ever sold at auction in 2012?
Answer: A: The Scream
Notes: *: Edvard Munch
Categories: Art (5) Current Affairs (5) 2010s (5)
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Pub quiz question 3608 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which beauty product firm got a slap on the wrists from the Advertising Standards Authority for digitally altering two adverts starring Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington?
Answer: A: L'Oréal
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Pub quiz question 3072 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the name of the Norwegian island on which Anders Behring Breivik shot and killed at least 86 people (on Friday 22 July 2011?)
Answer: A: Utøya (p: oo-terrya) (in Buskerud)
Categories: Current Affairs (8) Geography (9)
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Pub quiz question 6176 by pjh2

Question: Q: Stacie Halas, a science teacher in Southern California, was finally sacked by her school district, for what reason?
Answer: A: Starring in porn movies before she was a teacher
Notes: *: 2012
Categories: Current Affairs (7) Entertainment (6) Politics (7) 2010s (7)
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Pub quiz question 6179 by pjh2

Question: Q: Patients in which UK city were put at risk when surgeons had to complete operations by torchlight when workers cut the power ahead of scheduled maintenance?
Answer: A: Edinburgh (Royal Infirmary)
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Pub quiz question 3701 by pjh2

Question: Q: Aug '11, The death of Mark Duggan was said to be the cause of riots in which area of London?
Answer: A: Tottenham
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Pub quiz question 3696 by pjh2

Question: Q: Aug '11, Which ex-president of Egypt went on trial, along with his two sons, for corruption and the premediated killing of peaceful protestors?
Answer: A: Muhammad (Hosni Sayyid) Mubarak
Categories: Politics (8) Current Affairs (5)
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Pub quiz question 6426 by pjh2

Question: Q: At the Levenson inquiry, who was described by a Telegraph sketch writer as "a grumpy boiled egg?"
Answer: A: Rupert Murdoch
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Pub quiz question 4327 by pjh2