Former Nasa astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan
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- In 1790, the US states of Virginia and Maryland both ceded land to allow the creation of which new legal entity?
- What are the only two US states that have double vowels (the same vowel consecutively) in their names? Name the only US state that starts with two (different) vowels.
- Which African country is the largest by area? And which is the most populous?
- Number 54 Albion Road, Broadstairs was the birthplace, in 1916, of which Tory PM?
- In which countries would you find a) The Plain of Jars b) the Bay of Pigs c) The Valley of the Kings?
- Name the five European capitals that begin with V; and as many as you can of the eleven countries in the world that start with A.
- To which country would you have to travel to see lemurs in the wild?
- The China-Pakistan Friendship Highway is better know as what?
- Bob Dylan sang about this road, and Robert Johnson supposedly made a deal with the devil on it. What is it?
- Uluru/Ayers Rock (pictured) is the most famous landmark in Australia’s Northern Territory. What is the territory’s capital?
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