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Issue 1649

Ben Shephard: The Atlantic Charter was an agreement signed in 1941 by Winston Churchill and which US president?
Contestant: Ronald Reagan.

Roman Kemp: "Emigré" was a term coined to describe those people who fled which revolution of 1789?
Contestant: The Stone Age.

Walsh: Which of these three men was born first: Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin or Charles de Gaulle?
Contestant: I'll go for Charles de Gaulle. I'm pretty sure he was medieval.

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