General Knowledge Quiz! - Quiz in OP - Happy 1,800th!

@mrjez should know

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Pffttt… you commoners and your common names.

Get Botanical or go home!

Chrysanthemum

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205 - Hercules??

128 - Johann Sebastian Bach (ah, Bach)
164 - A ha ha is a kind of landscaping feature. Sort of like a moat without water in it. Sorry for the long description.

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Lol.

201 epistaxis is a blood nose. Often from the condition of PAFD.

202 Around The World in Eighty Days.

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205- the gorgon is another name for Medusa I think! So Bellerophon? (Read the mythos series by Stephen Fry - great fun!)

Edit- Perseus actually! Pegasus came from Medusa.

And I’ll have a crack at one more (that I apparently get as catch-up)

194 gunpowder

95 The Scarecrow
132 Tchaikovsky
214 Portuguese language

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174- Phillip?

  1. Was just about to answer this and saw you had.

Sorry.

Now I’m worrying that a ha ha might be the opposite of what I said.
A mound instead of a ditch. It’s one of them.

79 - Germany
134 - Jack Benny
158 - Tara
176 - Downhill skiing
186 - Jesus?

Picasso.

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One last try but posting from the phone I cannot work out exactly what has been answered and what hasn’t.

Anyway:
164 a ha ha is a wall. Half sunken by putting a ditch on one side and making the other side level so it is not visible from the grand palace you built it in front of.
189 Thomas Mann was the author of The Rights of Mann
200 the Mau Mau were in Kenya
210 Picasso had a blue period
211 Bounty mutineers settled on Pitcairn Island and were relocated to Norfolk Island

Supplementary answers if the above have been answered already.

213 Polyandric women have multiple hubby’s.
103 George Orwell
158 Tara
177 Diamonds

■■■■ you @Zimmer !

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Correct answer

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95 Cowardly lion
103 George Orwell
128 Johann Sebastien Bach
132 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
164 A haha is a ditch or trench that acts as a kind of fence

102 - Indian states
172 - Italian regions
181 - Draught horses
195 - crockery/pottery
212 - River Po

195 Pottery
211 Pitcairn Island
214 Portuguese colonies