Who wrote about life as a county cricketer in A Lot of Hard Yakka (1998)?
19 Which race is known in the US as “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports”?
20 Who is the pictured American fashion model?
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1 Dysnomia is the only moon of which dwarf planet?
2 Which zodiacal constellation lies in the southern sky between Libra and Sagittarius?
3 The constellation Cassiopeia is famous for having which distinctive letter shape?
4 What is the farthest planet in the Solar System from the Sun?
5 In 1959, the space probe Luna 3 took the first ever photographs of what?
6 Achernar (Arabic for ‘end of the river’) is the brightest star in which constellation?
7 Which galaxy, the largest of the Local Group, is expected to collide with the Milky Way in 3.75 billion years?
8 Who became the second Astronomer Royal on succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720?
9 William Herschel made which discovery on March 13, 1781?
10 Containing Barnard’s Star, which constellation is the ‘Snake-holder’?
11 The astronomy abbreviation CME refers to the Sun erupting with a what?
12 Despina, Larissa and Naiad are moons of which planet?
13 Which moon of Saturn is larger than the planet Mercury but is half of its mass?
14 Which astronaut served as an Ohio Democrat senator from 1974 to 1999?
15 Launched in 1973, what was America’s first space station?
16 Launched in 1959, what was the first weather satellite?
17 Salyut I was the first ever type of which structure?
18 The impact basin Hellas is which planet’s largest recognisable impact feature?
19 Which Apollo 13 astronaut said: “Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here”?
20 The image features which shield volcano on Mars?
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1 Dipsomania refers to an uncontrollable craving for what?
2 The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in which US city?
3 The Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house is in which Spanish city?
4 Larry David plays Larry David in which HBO comedy?
5 Meaning ‘instruction’, what is the Hebrew term for the Pentateuch?
6 Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1929 novel The Maracot Deep centres on which legend?
7 Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) was the first modern what?
8 Martin Luther was declared an outlaw at which 1521 ‘Diet’?
9 The Fourcault Process manufactures what inorganic material?
10 The 1939 film Ninotchka carried which famous two-word tagline?
11 Who was shot by Boston Corbett on April 26, 1865?
12 Which poem by Rainer Maria Rilke concludes: “You must change your life”?
13 Which dark nebula in Orion is also known as Barnard 33 or B33?
14 Which flap at the base of the tongue keeps food from going into the windpipe?
15 Traditionally made of silver, a bombilla is used as both a straw and a sieve when drinking which infusion?
16 Captain Louis Nolan was the first man killed in which 1854 action?
17 Possibly Cuba’s most popular living author, which writer created the Havana cop Mario Conde?
18 Which chess-playing IBM computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997?
19 Which race is held on the first Sunday of March between the village of Sälen and town of Mora?
20 Name the pictured English motorcycle racer –
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1 About 4,000 crocus stigmas are needed to yield one ounce of what?
2 Juditha Triumphans (1716) is which Italian composer’s only surviving oratorio?
3 Which cathedral is home to the Hedda Stone and Catherine of Aragon’s tomb?
4 What was the seventh commandment in the so-called ‘Wicked Bible’ of 1631?
5 Which bird can be Pink, Rock, Speckled, Nicobar or Domestic?
6 Which Pacific republic is the first country to enter the New Year?
7 What type of traditional Andean musical instrument is the Siku?
8 Thomas Lawrence’s 1794 portrait of Sarah Barrett Moulton has what colourful nickname?
9 Alfred Eisenstaedt took a famous photograph of a couple kissing where on VJ Day 1945?
10 Roustam Raza was the faithful Mamluk bodyguard of which Frenchman?
11 Santa Cruz is the