varieties of what?
3 Catch a Fire (1973) was which band’s first album on Island Records?
4 Amethyst and citrine are varieties of which mineral?
5 Which English actor wrote the verse play East (1975) and the one-man show Shakespeare’s Villains (1998)?
6 Using Ukrainian folk melodies, which composer’s Symphony no. 2 is nicknamed the Little Russian?
7 The German painter Franz Marc was killed at which 1916 battle?
8 The Martin-Schultz scale is used to establish the colour of what?
9 Which appetisers are the Basque equivalent of Spanish tapas?
10 Which comic book detectives are known in French as Dupont et Dupond?
11 Held in Park City, Utah, what is the largest independent cinema festival in the US?
12 Which scientist published her classic Treatise on Radioactivity in 1910?
13 Which US President first proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), aka “Star Wars”?
14 The piano virtuoso Claudio Arrau (1903–91) was born in which country?
15 Which “Glamour Cat” sings the ballad Memory in the musical Cats?
16 In 1917, who wrote The Times obituary for Ian Fleming’s MP father Valentine?
17 Which Andy Warhol artwork repeats an image from the 1960 film Flaming Star three times?
18 Ring announcer Michael Buffer famously uses which trademarked phrase?
19 In 1934, what became the only horse to win both the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National in the same year?
20 Which bridge over the River Tarn is pictured?
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1 Which US filmmaker directed the TV pilot episodes of Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl?
2 What type of elite service is Gray & Farrar?
3 In France, the term ‘un nègre’ is used to describe which literary role?
4 Which disaster site’s clean-up operation involved around 830,000 “liquidators”?
5 Dibatag, gerenuk, chinkara, puku and lechwe are species of what?
6 What is the most abundant mineral in Earth’s continental crust?
7 In 1826, which elite infantry corps was forcibly disbanded by Sultan Mahmud II in the Auspicious Incident?
8 Jim Backus voiced which nearsighted cartoon character with the first name Quincy?
9 Gifts made of what material are given on a 15th wedding anniversary?
10 Which author took off in a P38 plane from Corsica on July 31, 1944, and vanished?
11 Which British heavy metal band released the 1980 single Breaking the Law?
12 In 1994, Tom Ford became creative director of which Italian fashion group?
13 Which element, the final member of the actinide series, is named after the inventor of the cyclotron?
14 Who painted The Shrimp Girl (c.1740–45) and David Garrick as Richard III (1745)?
15 In 1916, Berlin, Ontario was renamed after which British Army officer?
16 In which US state is the historic site Cahokia Mounds?
17 Which Uddingston, Lanarkshire-based biscuit maker is famed for its Teacakes and Caramel Wafer?
18 In which type of fencing is the entire body a valid target?
19 Which Great Britain competitor won 2014 Winter Olympic gold in the women’s skeleton bob?
20 Name the pictured NASA rover –
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1 Jack Cade led a 1450 uprising against which king’s government?
2 Which King of Italy was assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci in 1900?
3 Pope Alexander II gave his blessing to which man’s invasion of England?
4 Simon Vouet was court painter to which French king?
5 The Marconi scandal rocked the government of which Liberal Prime Minister?
6 The Battle of Chamdo took place during which 1950 invasion?
7 Built in 1382 by Emir Djaharks el-Khalili, what is the Khan el-Khalili?
8 A stateless Albert Einstein became a citizen of which country in 1901?
9 Who led the Welsh rebels to victory at the 1402 Battle of Bryn Glas?
10 Which English king died of “camp fever’ at the Château de Vincennes in 1422?
11 Which Chinese imperial dynasty succeeded the Qin Dynasty in 206 BC?
12 Which Gallic leader defeated Caesar at the Battle of Gergovia (52 BC)?
13 The Battle of Sheriffmuir was the key clash of which rebellion?
14 The ancient city of Apollonia in Illyria is in which modern-day country?
15 Anna Anderson (1896–1984) claimed to be which Romanov dynasty princess?
16 Herod the Great was the Roman-appointed king of which province?
17 Which Vietnamese leader was born Nguyen Sinh Cung in 1890?
18 The Babington Plot led to the execution of which queen?