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Questions

Name the month in the French Republican calendar which is also the title of a novel by Emile Zola?

Where is the National Motor Museum?

What was the largest town in Britain before it became a city in 1992?

Whose first published book, in 1961, was 'Call for the Dead'?

Who wrote the 'The Dam Busters March' for the 1954 film of that name?