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This week: Encyclopedic?

Is your knowledge encyclopedic? It could be, if you learnt from the Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia, which supplies the answers to all these questions.

The questions and answers to this week’s quiz are below. In order to see the answers, click the Show the Answer link next to the appropriate question.

1. Which English screen actor made her film debut in “Heavenly Creatures” and also appeared in “Titanic” and “Hideous Kinky”? Show the Answers ▼

2. Which French artist painted his last remarkable studies of water lilies at his house in Giverny before he died in 1926? Show the Answers ▼

3. Who wrote the play “Uncle Vanya”? Show the Answers ▼

4. Is the “flying fox” a kind of bird, bat or fox? Show the Answers ▼

5. In medicine, does a vasodilator widen or narrow the blood vessels? Show the Answers ▼

6. Dhaka, formerly Dacca, is the capital of which country? Show the Answers ▼

7. What was the first name of the US actor Orson Welles: George, Herbert or William? Show the Answers ▼

8. Who wrote the music for the operetta “La Rondine” (1917)? Show the Answers ▼

9. The Yanamamo or Yanomamo people live in which continent? Show the Answers ▼

10. What was the “Jarvik 7″ given to Barney Clark in 1982? Show the Answers ▼