Quiz Seven

1
Where on Earth is this?
2
What is the maximum we add up to? You should find proof before there is no way back.
Demar
3
What eponym links these two actors?
4
What is this?
5
Name the ship that was discovered abandoned but fully seaworthy off Gibraltar in 1872?
Peter
6
These three men should lead you to name a fourth.
7
Who became disillusioned by an autograph request from Santa?
Neil
8
It is not unusual to hear the name of the sport called out by the players while playing the game, but which game takes this to absurd lengths?
9
Who painted this?
10
On my US telephone, letters are assigned to the number keys as follows:
2 = ABC, 3 = DEF, 4 = GHI, 5 = JKL, 6 = MNO, 7 = PQRS, 8 = TUV, 9 = WXYZ
Tapping out the 12-digit number 538282378664, I noticed that I was spelling a famous quotation by... whom?
Alan
11
An old school dictionary falls open. Across a two page spread I can find a pronged instrument for digging; a military stronghold; a source and a pirate. Which word did the publishers hide from curious schoolchildren despite it appearing several times in the King James version of the Bible? (Corinthians I and II, Isaiah, Revelation, Chronicles II, Galatians, Colossians, Corinthians, Matthew, Romans, Jude, Ezekiel, Ephesians, John, Thessalonians, and Acts)
12
Who is this?
13
What is this: “ORTRTA ORTFT ORTBTAAITDBT”?
Neal
14
What was the unusual monetary demand of the man in the coon-skin cap?
15
A pebble is dropped down a well, a distant splash is heard six seconds later, how deep is the well?
16
Which is the most risky month to gamble on the stockmarket, Mr Clemens?
3iff
17
Who is the only monarch of England, Scotland, or the UK that's taken a regnal name other than one of his or her baptismal names?
Jim
18
What is this?
19
Who is having a night on the town, and where?
20
At which number house did a traveller live 58 years after a playwright died there?
Dave

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