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Science & Nature
The Solar System, Explained
A friendly tour of the planets, moons and the star at the middle of it all.
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Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Quick Quizzes
The shortest quizzes on the site — ten questions in roughly six minutes, for a coffee break rather than a study session.
Not every quiz needs to be an undertaking. Everything gathered here runs ten questions in about six minutes: long enough to learn something, short enough for a coffee break or a queue. They span every subject on the site rather than one topic, so this is also a reasonable way to find out which areas you actually enjoy before committing to a longer run through a category. As everywhere on QuizKite, every answer comes with a short explanation, and nothing requires an account.
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Geography
Seas & Oceans
The blue that covers most of the planet, from the Pacific to the Dead Sea.
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What is the largest ocean on Earth?
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Science & Nature
The Human Body
The remarkable machine you live in, from your bones to your immune system.
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What is the largest organ of the human body?
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Science & Nature
Periodic Table Basics
The building blocks of everything, and the table that organises them.
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What is the chemical symbol for gold?
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Science & Nature
Weather & Climate
Clouds, fronts, storms and the difference between a rainy day and a warming world.
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In which layer of the atmosphere does nearly all weather occur?
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Sports
Records, Rings & Legends
The rules, records and moments the world actually watched.
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How often are the modern Summer Olympic Games normally held?
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Music
Notes, Strings & Symphonies
Instruments, composers and the words written on every score.
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How many strings does a standard violin have?
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Food & Drink
From the Kitchen
What familiar dishes are made of, and where they came from.
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Which spice is harvested from the stigmas of a crocus flower?
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Space & Astronomy
Stars, Galaxies & Spaceflight
Beyond the planets: stars, distance and getting off the ground.
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Which galaxy contains our Solar System?
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Animals & Wildlife
Creatures & Their Records
The biggest, the fastest and the genuinely strange.
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Which vertebrate is believed to have the longest lifespan?
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Mythology & Folklore
Gods, Heroes & Monsters
The pantheons and legends still hiding in everyday language.
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In Greek mythology, who is the king of the gods?
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Language & Words
Words & Where They Come From
Roots, scripts and the names for things you already do with language.
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Which language has the most native speakers worldwide?
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Mathematics
Numbers, Shapes & Proofs
The constants, shapes and terms worth actually knowing.
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What is the value of pi to two decimal places?
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Medicine & The Body
Medicine & Discovery
The discoveries that changed what medicine could promise.
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Insulin is produced by which organ?
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Transport & Travel
Routes, Rails & Runways
The canals, railways and machines that shortened the world.
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Which canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea?
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Video Games
Consoles, Classics & Code
The games and machines that built the biggest entertainment industry.
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Which company created the character Mario?
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Comics & Animation
Drawn Worlds
Comics and animation across America, Europe and Japan.
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Superman first appeared in which comic publication?
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Fashion & Style
Cloth, Cut & Couture
The designers, fabrics and cities behind what people wear.
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Which designer is credited with popularising the "little black dress"?
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Religion & Belief
Traditions & Texts
The major world religions, their books and their practices.
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The Quran is the central religious text of which faith?
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Environment & Climate
Planet Systems
Atmosphere, energy and the cycles that keep things running.
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Which gas is the most abundant in Earth's atmosphere?
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Chemistry
Reactions & Everyday Chemistry
What happens when substances meet, and why.
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What is the chemical formula for water?
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Oceans & Marine Life
Tides, Depths & Reefs
The physics of the sea and the life that adapted to it.
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What is the deepest known point in the ocean?
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Birds
Feathers, Flight & Song
Record holders, adaptations and the dinosaur connection.
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What is the largest living bird species?
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Plants & Gardening
Roots, Leaves & Seeds
How plants feed, reproduce and survive the year.
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Plants produce their own food through which process?
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Ancient Egypt
Pharaohs & Pyramids
Monuments, rulers and the writing we spent centuries decoding.
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The Great Pyramid at Giza was built as a tomb for which pharaoh?
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Flags & Emblems
Banners & Symbols
National flags, their parts and what they were meant to say.
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The flag of Japan depicts what?
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Islands
Land Surrounded by Water
How islands form and which ones people misplace.
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What is the largest island in the world?
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Theatre & Dance
Stage & Step
Performance traditions and the terms used backstage.
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Shakespeare's company performed at which London theatre?
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Brands & Advertising
Logos, Slogans & Persuasion
What a brand is made of, and why the techniques work.
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The slogan "Just Do It" belongs to which company?
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Health & Fitness
Training, Food & Rest
The settled basics of exercise, nutrition and recovery.
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Cardiovascular exercise primarily strengthens which systems?
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Capitals & Cities
World Capitals: The Basics
Ten capitals most people can name — and the reasons behind a few that trip them up.
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What is the capital of India?
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Islands
Island Nations of the World
Ten countries that have no land border with anybody, from the Caribbean to the central Pacific.
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Which island nation lies roughly 800 kilometres east of Madagascar and was the only home of…
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Space & Astronomy
The Planets, Properly
Ten questions on the eight planets, from the hottest surface to the one lying on its side.
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Which planet orbits closest to the Sun?
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Space & Astronomy
The Moon, Up Close
Phases, tides, the far side and the slow retreat — ten questions on the nearest thing in the sky.
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What causes the phases of the Moon?
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Ancient Egypt
Gods, Temples & the Afterlife
The gods with animal heads, the weighing of the heart, and what the jars beside the coffin were for.
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Which god, shown with the head of a jackal, was associated with embalming?
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Animals & Wildlife
Animal Names and Groups
Gaggles, mobs, cobs and kids: ten questions on what we call animals in groups and on their own.
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What is a group of geese on the ground called?
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Medicine & The Body
Bones, Muscles & Joints
Ten questions on the frame you walk around in — the bones, the muscles pulling on them and the joints in between.
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Which is the longest bone in the human body?
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Flags & Emblems
Creatures and Emblems on Flags
Dragons, lions, temples and one island drawn in copper — ten things countries put in the middle of their flags.
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Which country's flag features a temple complex?
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Physics
Motion, Mass and Momentum
Ten questions on how things move, why they stop, and what a force actually does to them.
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Newton's third law says forces come in pairs. What is true of the two forces in a pair?
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Chemistry
Everyday Chemistry Explained
Why bread goes stale, why onions sting and why ice floats — ten kitchen-cupboard questions with real answers.
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Baking soda makes a cake rise by releasing which gas?
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Biology
Ecosystems & Food Webs
Who eats whom, what happens to the energy along the way, and why removing one species can change everything.
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What is an organism that breaks down dead material called?
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Film & TV
How Television Actually Works
Pilots, showrunners, syndication — the vocabulary behind what reaches the screen.
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A television "pilot" is best described as what?
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Sports
The Rules of the Game
Scoring, team sizes and the basic laws of ten different sports.
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In basketball, a shot made from beyond the arc is worth how many points?
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Music
The Orchestra, Section by Section
Who sits where, what each family does, and why the oboe gets to tune everyone.
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Which section contains the violin, viola, cello and double bass?
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Video Games
How Video Games Are Made
Engines, sprites, patches and the words studios actually use.
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In game development, an "engine" provides what?
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Mathematics
Measures and Everyday Maths
Percentages, averages, units and the arithmetic that actually turns up.
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What is 25% of 200?
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Food & Drink
Drinks of the World
Coffee, tea, beer and spirits — what they are made from and where they come from.
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Coffee is made from the roasted seeds of what?
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General Knowledge
Signs, Symbols and Standards
The everyday symbols and conventions nobody explicitly teaches you.
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The symbol & is called what?
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Video Games
Consoles and Their Generations
The machines themselves — who made them, what they changed, and in what order.
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Which company released the Nintendo Entertainment System?
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Mathematics
Shapes, Angles and Space
Geometry as it actually gets used — sides, angles, area and volume.
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How many sides does a pentagon have?
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General Knowledge
Collective Nouns and Curious Names
A murder of crows, a parliament of owls, and the proper names for ordinary things.
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A group of ravens is traditionally called what?
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Language & Words
Parts of Speech and Punctuation Marks
Nouns, adverbs, semicolons and the Oxford comma, without the schoolroom dread.
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A word that names a person, place or thing is which part of speech?
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Philosophy & Ideas
Bad Arguments and Their Names
Straw men, red herrings and false dilemmas — the recurring faults in everyday reasoning.
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Attacking the person making a claim rather than the claim itself is which fallacy?
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Poetry
Figures of Speech in Verse
Enjambment, caesura, volta and the rest of the toolkit poets reach for by name.
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A simile differs from a metaphor in which way?
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Theatre & Dance
The Language of Backstage
Upstage, blocking, the strike and the calls — the working vocabulary of a theatre.
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On a stage, which area is described as upstage?
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Fashion & Style
The Anatomy of a Garment
Darts, bias, selvedge and interfacing — how flat cloth is turned into something that fits.
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Cutting fabric on the bias means cutting at what angle to the grain?
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Comics & Animation
The Language of Comics
Panels, gutters, balloons and splash pages: how comics tell a story on a flat page.
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In a comic, what is the gutter?
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Oceans & Marine Life
Marine Mammals and Their Ways
Whales, seals, sirenians and otters, and the equipment each one needed to leave the land.
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Baleen whales feed by doing what?
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Birds
Nests, Eggs and Raising Chicks
Brood patches, egg tricks and the birds that hand the whole job to one parent.
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A bird that hatches covered in down and able to walk almost at once is described as what?
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Plants & Gardening
A Gardener's Year
Mulch, pH, grafting and hardening off — the reasoning behind the repeated jobs.
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What does mulching a bed with bark or compost mainly achieve?
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Natural Disasters
How Disasters Are Measured
The scales, indices and warning systems behind the numbers in a disaster headline.
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The Saffir-Simpson scale rates hurricanes on the basis of what?
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Environment & Climate
Conservation and Protected Land
Red Lists, treaties, corridors and reserves — the practical machinery of protection.
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What does the IUCN Red List do?
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Royalty & Dynasties
Crowns, Regalia and Succession
Regents, consorts, orbs and the rules that decide who gets the throne next.
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Primogeniture is a rule under which the throne passes to whom?
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Mythology & Folklore
Tricksters and Shape-Shifters
Coyote, Reynard, the Monkey King and the other figures who win by cunning rather than strength.
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Which Norse figure is a trickster, sometimes helping the gods and sometimes working against…
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Law & Justice
The Language of the Law
Mens rea, tort, hearsay and the other terms that do the heavy lifting in a courtroom.
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In criminal law, what does mens rea refer to?
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Ancient Greece & Rome
Roman Daily Life and Engineering
Baths, apartment blocks, plumbing and fish sauce — how Romans actually lived day to day.
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What were the large Roman public bath complexes called?
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Mythology & Folklore
Monsters and Spirits of World Folklore
Ten creatures from local storytelling traditions, from a hut on chicken legs to a spider who talks his way out of everything.
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In Jewish folklore, what is a golem?
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The World Wars
The Home Front and Wartime Technology
Rationing, evacuation, codebreaking and the inventions the Second World War pushed forward.
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Which country house north of London was the centre of Allied codebreaking work?
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Music
Instruments of the Orchestra
Ten questions on how the instruments of an orchestra are grouped and how they actually make their sound.
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Which section of a symphony orchestra normally contains the most players?
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Language & Words
Grammar, Plainly Explained
The parts of speech and punctuation marks people use daily and rarely name.
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A word such as "heavy" or "blue", which describes a noun, is called what?
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Film & TV
How a Film Gets Made
The jobs, the jargon and the order of work behind the credits that scroll past at the end.
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What is the director of photography responsible for?
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Food & Drink
Dishes and Where They Come From
Ten famous dishes traced back to the country, the region and sometimes the pot they were named after.
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The layered moussaka topped with béchamel sauce is commonly credited to a cook from which…
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Oceans & Marine Life
Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
Ten questions on the mammals that went back to the water and how they eat, dive, sing and sleep.
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How does a baleen whale feed?
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Health & Fitness
The Body Under Load
Bone, cartilage, heat and balance — how the structures of the body respond to being used.
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Wolff's law describes what?