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Here you go. Will leave it an hour before confirming answers. Part 1: History 1. By what name was exotic dancer and spy Margaretha MacLeod commonly known? 2. He was expelled from his country’s Socialist Party for advocating military intervention in the First World War. In 1917 he was...

You got quite a few there - you can see the answers now, by reckoning 11/25. I get the Keats guess... as he asked for his tomb to be inscribed 'here lies one whose name was writ in water'. New larger quiz coming today

Soz, trying to adjust the difficulty for the next one. :)

Answers. If people like this I'll do another one soon. Got a better sense of the right level of difficulty now so I'll try and make the art/lit ones easier. If anyone wants to send me some sports questions will include a round - not something I'm generally interested in or know anything...

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Showaddywaddy is correct. Nice one :)

Yep. I was going to quote the Mum and Dad fucking you up as the last clue.

State of play, with clues for the unknowns. History 1. Which of Henry VIII’s wives did he consider ugly? – Ann of Cleeves 2. Who was the US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis? - JFK 3. In early life I was known as Soso (one of many pseudonyms I used) and trained to be a priest...

In my day I'd have created a do loop to calculate a factorial.

Don't know any of those, although I've heard of PHP. I guess these are newer languages as recursion was a no-no when I were a lad.

Yep

Nope YES :) Fortran is formula translation isn't it? Used to program in that too. Never done Pascal, but assumed it was named after the mathematician.

COmmon B??? Oriented Language... not boolean. Used to be a COBOL programmer; not much boolean manipulation in there I'm afraid.

Happy Martian got this one right - Sargasso Sea

Not Picasso

Yep.

5 Was Harold Wilson, now answered. Wagner is correct. :)

Maybe they are too hard - this is my specialist subject so it wasn't deliberate. I tried to make them so that everyone would know some of them. Nothing worse than a pub quiz when everyone gets most of them wrong. I give more clues for any left in an hour or so.

Yes! :)