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The Times Quiz Book: 4000 challenging general knowledge questions


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band’s self-titled debut album?

      16 Those Were the Days was a 1968 no.1 for which Welsh singer?

      17 Which English rock band was named after a 1966 novel by Willard Manus?

      18 Praise & Blame is a 2010 album by which Welsh singer?

      19 Which football anthem is New Order’s only UK number one single?

      20 Name the pictured English rock band –

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      1 What links Moss in The I.T. Crowd, Harold Macmillan and an E.M. Forster novel title?

      2 Which Poet Laureate wrote the play Epsom Wells (1672)?

      3 How was the 1st Marchioness of Pembroke (1504–1536) better known?

      4 Which scientist was Time magazine’s “Person of the [20th] Century”?

      5 Which game bird is scientifically known as Coturnix coturnix?

      6 Who succeeded the assassinated US president James Garfield?

      7 What is the longest British river at 219 miles long?

      8 The New Mexico town Hot Springs renamed itself after which radio show?

      9 What online retailer was originally called Cadabra.com?

      10 Manzanilla and Palo Cortado are varieties of which wine?

      11 Which mysterious prisoner was buried under the name of ‘Marchioly’ in 1703?

      12 What did Paul Hogan say tasted “like an angel crying on your tongue”?

      13 Which TV and audio products company has a museum in Struer, Denmark?

      14 Which book series centres on the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny?

      15 Which mathematician built the first reflecting telescope in 1668?

      16 Which Trinidadian-born rapper launched the perfume Pink Friday in 2012?

      17 Which type of single-celled organism derives its name from the Greek for ‘change’?

      18 Who owned the legendary racehorse Red Rum?

      19 Which British wheelchair athlete won his first London Marathon in 2002?

      20 What is the nickname of the pictured dinosaur?

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      1 Who succeeded Duncan I as King of Scotland in 1040?

      2 Which murderous duo sold their victims to the Edinburgh doctor, Robert Knox?

      3 The Chorleywood process is a method of making which common food?

      4 Hart’s Rules is a set of conventions used by which people?

      5 What are High Spy, Barf, Knott Rigg and Whiteside?

      6 Achilles was dipped in which river to make him invulnerable?

      7 Elvis Presley was born in which Mississippi town in 1935?

      8 The murder victim Susie Salmon narrates which novel from beyond the grave?

      9 Who traced the source of an 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho to the Broad Street pump?

      10 What did Guy de Maupassant call “this tall skinny pyramid of iron ladders, this giant and disgraceful skeleton”?

      11 Which BBC TV drama centres on the Shelby crime family?

      12 What are the Bowyer, Constable, Beauchamp, Martin, Salt and White?

      13 In 1980, the Herbert Johnson ‘Poet’ was chosen to adorn the head of which movie hero?

      14 An adult’s third molars are known by which common name?

      15 Residents of the Italian village of Campodimele are famous for being what?

      16 Which Caribbean luxury resorts operator was founded by Gordon “Butch” Stewart in 1981?

      17 First published in 1966, what is the bestselling chess book of all time?

      18 Which Olympic champion athlete won 41 LPGA titles and 10 majors in golf?

      19 What is the nickname of the Australian men’s national rugby league team?

      20 The pictured Veil Nebula is in which constellation?

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      1 Though not the final section, what is the last Canterbury Tale?

      2 Which famous comedienne was the niece of Nancy Astor?

      3 Who is friends with Bill Badger, Algy Pug and Edward Trunk?

      4 What type of devastating mudflow is named from the Javanese for “lava”?

      5 Bariatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with what condition?

      6 Which former Prime Minister died at 10 Downing Street in 1908?

      7 Formed in 1676, what is The Queen’s Body Guard in Scotland?

      8 What are Dorabella, Troyte, Ysobel and W.N.?

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