swimmer broke the one-minute barrier in the 100m freestyle for the first time?
2 New Zealand’s Crusaders rugby union team is based in which city?
3 Which Scottish golfer won the 1985 Open Championship and the 1988 Masters?
4 Which Wantage-born jockey became known as the ‘Long Fellow’?
5 Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite is which Brazilian footballer’s real name?
6 Which retired athlete became Tory MP for Falmouth and Camborne in 1992?
7 Where did Lewis Hamilton win his first F1 Grand Prix?
8 Which Glasgow team is Scotland’s oldest football club?
9 Who upset Steve Davis to become world snooker champion in 1985?
10 Italy’s Edoardo Mangiarotti won 13 Olympic medals (including six golds) in which sport?
11 Which American football coach said: “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing”?
12 In 1930, which England player became the oldest man to play Test cricket?
13 In 1933, Ernie Schaaf died four days after he had been knocked out by which Italian heavyweight boxer?
14 Lyon (2008), Bordeaux (2009), Marseille (2010), Lille (2011) – what comes next?
15 Which British politician is the only person to have won an Olympic medal and a Nobel prize?
16 Riding Prince of Penzance, Michelle Payne has become the first female jockey to win which famous horse race?
17 Which golfer designed Augusta National with course architect Alister MacKenzie?
18 Founded by Steve Fairbairn and first contested in 1926, which rowing race runs from Mortlake to Putney?
19 Los Charrúas is a nickname of which South American national football team?
20 Who is the pictured Buenos Aires-born footballer?
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1 Charles Dickens described which king as “a most intolerable ruffian”?
2 Kama, or Kamadeva, is the Hindu god of what?
3 Hipped, jerkin and monopitch are types of what universal structure?
4 Which Visigoth king led the sacking of Rome in 410AD?
5 Ventriloquist Peter Brough famously operated which puppet?
6 Paddington Bear lived with which family at 32 Windsor Gardens?
7 The Almanach de Gotha is a directory of what?
8 William Alexander Harvey designed which model village for the Cadburys?
9 Evangelista Torricelli invented which scientific instrument in 1643?
10 Which Channel 4 sitcom produced the catchphrase: “Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango”?
11 Named after a capital city, what is the last element in the lanthanide series?
12 Stars of their own 2015 film, who are Dave, Stuart, Jerry, Jorge, Tim, Mark, Phil, Kevin and Bob?
13 Which beef stew has been called “the most celebrated dish in France” by Raymond Blanc?
14 In 1901, the British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth invented the first powered what?
15 Which Moroccan city is home to the Koutoubia Mosque, La Mamounia hotel and El Badi Palace?
16 “We are running on line north and south” may have been the last radio transmission of which aviatrix?
17 Known for her albums Traslocando and Carioca, which Italian singer married the tennis star Björn Borg in 1989?
18 Which badminton trophy is named after a two-time British chess champion?
19 IOC president Thomas Bach won Olympic gold in which sport?
20 Name the pictured mushroom –
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1 Luigi Boccherini composed Night Music of the Streets of which capital city?
2 Which December 1941 battle is sometimes called the “Alamo of the Pacific”?
3 The body of criminal Aris Kindt features in which 1632 painting?
4 Which UN secretary-general was killed in an air crash on the Zambian frontier?
5 A sambuca served con mosca (‘with flies’) has what added to it?
6 Which ancient Hindu text is the most famous work of Vatsyayana?
7 What did Cervantes call “short sentences drawn from long experience”?
8 Which Dutchman discovered Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in 1655?
9 What is Germany’s biggest selling newspaper?
10 First explored in 1994, which French cave features the Megaloceros Gallery?
11 The Lyle’s Golden Syrup trademark depicts which creatures?
12 What is the stage name of Hawaiian-born singer Peter Gene Hernandez?
13 Which US photojournalist was played by Candice Bergen in the film Gandhi?
14 Which volcano’s eruption caused the ‘Year Without Summer’ of 1816?
15 Born in Geneva in 1936, Karim al-Husayn Shah has which hereditary title?
16 Edward Lear described which characters whose “heads are green, and their hands are blue”?
17 Dinosaurs first appeared during which geologic period,