have been credited with which invention, originally called “The Magic Screen”?
10 Which Australian-born author is the subject of the film Saving Mr. Banks?
11 The Mariel Boatlift was a 1980 mass emigration to the US from which country?
12 Leper’s squint, oeil-de-boeuf and bull’s-eye are types of which architectural feature?
13 Iyaric is a dialect spoken by members of which religion?
14 Where would you find relatively empty regions called Kirkwood gaps?
15 Charles Marlow falls in love with Kate Hardcastle in which 1773 play?
16 Based in Glattbrugg, Switzerland, what is the world’s largest HR services company?
17 What is the nickname of the Gangs of New York movie villain William Cutting?
18 What follows “The Flop” and “The River”?
19 Which championship game is Canada’s largest single day sporting event?
20 Nicknamed “La Stupenda”, which opera singer is pictured?
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1 Sir Thomas Beecham called which London venue a “giant chicken coop”?
2 Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes created which packaging material?
3 What number is denoted by the word myriad?
4 Lady Godiva rode nude through the streets of which city?
5 Which English photographer married Catherine Deneuve in 1965?
6 Which children’s TV show featured The Soup Dragon and Froglets?
7 Craster in Northumberland is famed for which fish delicacy?
8 Who was the oldest member of the pop group The Jackson 5?
9 Unani, Ayurveda and Siddha are alternative forms of what?
10 Who first appeared together in the 1915 story Extricating Young Gussie?
11 A luxury brand of General Motors, what is the oldest active American car make?
12 Which artist painted the Uffizi’s Ognissanti Madonna (c.1310)?
13 In humans, which dark pigment is the main determinant of skin colour?
14 Named after a British physicist, what is the SI derived unit of absorbed dose?
15 Who did Suetonius claim sang the Sack of Ilium during the Great Fire of Rome?
16 A photo of which 1970 meeting is the most requested reproduction from the US National Archives?
17 Whistled by Brother Bones, what is the Harlem Globetrotters’ signature song?
18 The Canadian dentist William George Beers is known as the father of which sport?
19 Wearing the Star of David on his trunks, which boxer defeated Max Schmeling in 1933?
20 Name the pictured king –
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1 College Boy, composed by Derek New, is the theme tune of which quiz show?
2 The time travel TV drama Outlander is based on novels by which US author?
3 The 2009 BBC TV drama Desperate Romantics centred on which art movement?
4 Norm Peterson and Cliff Clavin propped up the bar in which sitcom?
5 Which flop TV show was set in the fishing village of Los Barcos?
6 Who were Danny Wilde and Lord Brett Sinclair in a 70s TV show?
7 Who played Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series MASH?
8 The US sitcom All in the Family was based on which BBC TV show?
9 Which 2012 TV drama adapted Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 & 2 and Henry V?
10 Which TV role links David Threlfall and, in its US remake, William H. Macy?
11 Which US sitcom centres on Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, Raj, Penny, Bernadette and Amy?
12 Which TV drama features Kit Harington in the role of Jon Snow?
13 In Doctor Who, the Torchwood Institute was founded by which queen?
14 Storybrooke, Maine, is the town setting for which fairy tale TV drama series?
15 South Africa’s Henry Cele played the title role in which 1986 TV miniseries?
16 Who replaced Jason Dawe as a Top Gear presenter in 2003?
17 Which actor hosted the US TV show Man v. Food?
18 Phil Leotardo (Frank Vincent) was the final antagonist of which TV drama?
19 Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein star in which Oregon-based TV sketch show?
20 Name the pictured TV weather presenter –
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1 The 1944 ballet Fancy Free features