national park?
6 In China, which animal is known as Xiongmao meaning ‘Giant Cat Bear’?
7 In 1980, Brian Souter founded which Perth-based transport group with his sister Ann Gloag and her former husband Robin?
8 Born in Amaseia, Pontus (modern-day Amasya, Turkey) in 64 or 63 BC, which Greek wrote the 17-book encyclopedia Geographica?
9 Farringford House on the Isle of Wight was the home of which Poet Laureate?
10 Rose, smoky and milky are common varieties of which mineral?
11 Which brand of apple juice is pressed on Boxford Farm in Suffolk?
12 The defence of Pavlov’s House was a key event in which 1942–43 battle?
13 Which British illustrator created the Where’s Wally? aka Where’s Waldo? books?
14 La virgen de los sicarios or Our Lady of the Assassins (1994) is which Colombian writer’s best known novel?
15 Which Thelonius Monk song is the most recorded jazz standard composed by a jazz musician?
16 The Washington DC-based Brookings Institution is often ranked the world’s most influential what?
17 The lack of correlation between body size and cancer risk is known as whose paradox?
18 In 1990, which 45-year-old golfer became the oldest ever US Open champion?
19 Which Belfast-born F1 driver won the 1983 US GP West after starting 22nd on the grid?
20 Name the famous precious stone in the picture –
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1 Played on film by Eric Bana, the Australian criminal Mark Read had what nickname?
2 Who links Kirk Douglas, Tony Curran, Andy Serkis and Jacques Dutronc?
3 Which Holy Roman Emperor was Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad’s eldest son?
4 Often described as the “world’s worst airline”, Air Koryo is which country’s national carrier?
5 The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (1931) introduced which detective?
6 Béarnaise sauce becomes sauce Choron with the addition of which purée?
7 De Ira by Seneca the Younger is a philosophical treatise on which emotion?
8 Which Harold Pinter play is set at Petey and Meg Boles’ seaside boarding house?
9 Low-density lipoprotein is the so-called “bad” form of which substance?
10 Which US designer launched her knitted jersey wrap dress in 1973?
11 Philematology is the science of which physical act?
12 In a 1984 novel by John Updike, who are the Rhode Island natives, Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart and Sukie Rougemont?
13 The Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas designed the Casa da Música in which city?
14 Which John Adams opera centres on the hijack of the Achille Lauro cruise ship?
15 Which French company developed the AGV (Automotrice à grande vitesse) train?
16 H.R. Giger created the cover for which 1973 Emerson, Lake & Palmer album?
17 Which Italian building is adorned with 3,159 statues?
18 Aged 15, which Chelmsford-born swimmer won Olympic silver and bronze in 1984?
19 Which American race is the world’s oldest annual marathon?
20 Name the fruit –
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1 Queen Victoria saw which Irish playwright’s drama The Colleen Bawn three times?
2 Dr. Thomas Stockmann is the main character in which Henrik Ibsen play?
3 Who is told he will only be defeated when Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane?
4 Which “Irish Chekhov” wrote the plays Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Faith Healer and Translations?
5 Lady, Be Good (1924) was which brothers’ first Broadway musical?
6 Which British-based dramatist wrote the 1988 play Our Country’s Good?
7 Which musical features the numbers Don’t Rain on My Parade, People and You Are Woman?
8 Hamletmachine (1977) is a postmodernist drama by which German playwright?
9 In 1995, who became the first actor to win a Tony Award for playing Hamlet?
10 Arguing over “the reckyninge” (bill), Ingram Frizer stabbed which man to death in the Deptford home or victualling house of the widow Eleanor Bull?
11 Which playwright used the music critic pseudonym Corno di Bassetto?
12 Which English theatre director married the actress Leslie Caron in 1956?
13 Who wrote the 1970s plays Sleuth, Murderer and Whodunnit?
14 Which dramatist wrote the 1603 Roman tragedy Sejanus his Fall?
15 Whose play, The Cyclops, is the only extant satyr play?
16 In 1959, who did Kenneth Tynan call “the finest actor on earth from the neck up”?
17 In a Stephen Sondheim musical, Benjamin Barker becomes which title character?
18 Who composed the music for the 1927 musical Show Boat?
19 Harold Pinter based which play on his affair with Joan Bakewell?
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