In 1782, King Rama I established the Chakri dynasty in which country?
20 Name the pictured Tory prime minister –
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1 Which Roman governor is associated with the ancient Scottish tree, the Fortingall Yew?
2 Who was King of England during the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt?
3 The Dublin criminal Martin Cahill (1949–94) is the subject of which John Boorman film?
4 Torta Setteveli is a seven-layered Italian cake named after which dance?
5 What is the most populous city in the USA?
6 Which German dramatist wrote the play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui?
7 The Spanish coastal town of Muxia has a monument to which 2002 oil spill?
8 What is the fruit of the rose plant called?
9 Which brothers created the illuminated manuscript, the Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry?
10 The world’s tallest statue of a woman, The Motherland Calls, overlooks which Russian city?
11 The title of which song, traditionally sung at Jewish celebrations, means ‘Let us rejoice’?
12 Which Russian composer is the subject of the 2016 Julian Barnes novel The Noise of Time?
13 Who once slept in the Cupboard Under the Stairs at 4 Privet Drive in Little Whinging, Surrey?
14 Which Manfred Mann singer wrote the much-covered song Handbags and Gladrags?
15 What is Britain’s largest protected wetland?
16 Ronald Binge’s musical piece Sailing By is played before which radio broadcast?
17 Which Stephen Sondheim musical is set in Japan in the year 1853?
18 Which belt was named after the “Yellow Earl” Hugh Cecil Lowther (1857–1944)?
19 Phillip Island is a Grand Prix Circuit in which country?
20 Identify the Inca city site –
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1 Who based his drawings of Winnie-the-Pooh on Growler, his son Graham’s teddy bear?
2 Maidenhead railway bridge features in which 1844 painting by J.M.W. Turner?
3 Which Austrian family moved into 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, in 1938?
4 119 copies of which book by John James Audubon are known to survive?
5 Which children’s TV duo spoke the language Oddle Poddle?
6 Who married Giovanni Sforza, Alfonso of Aragon and, finally, Alfonso d’Este?
7 Thomas Gibson Bowles founded which women’s weekly magazine in 1885?
8 Which Austrian-born biographer (1921–2012) wrote The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered and Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth?
9 Berlioz composed an 1838 opera about which Florentine sculptor and goldsmith?
10 Which French composer wrote the music for the 1964 film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg?
11 Werner Heisenberg won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the creation of ” what?
12 Which Bush frontman is the father of fashion model Daisy Lowe?
13 Quarried in Dorset, which limestone was used to build the Cenotaph in Whitehall?
14 Jane Goodall is considered the world’s foremost expert on which animals?
15 Revelations (1960) is regarded as the modern dance masterpiece of which American choreographer?
16 Who invented the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in the 1943 “Dambusters” raid?
17 Cavity Sam is the patient in which board game?
18 “Fast Eddie” Parker (1931–2001) was a legendary American player of which sport?
19 British swimmer James Guy won which individual title at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships?
20 What is the pictured rodent?
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1 Featuring buildings at Naiku and Geku and the Uji Bridge, which complex is Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrine?
2 Which cantilever railway bridge was opened by the future Edward VII on March 4, 1890?
3 Arecibo Observatory, site of the world’s largest single-unit radio telescope, is found where?
4 The Hotel Attraction (1908) is an unbuilt design by which Catalan architect?
5 Which chateau, c. 25 miles north of Paris, houses the Musée Condé?
6 The Delta Works, the world’s largest flood protection project, is in which country?
7 In the city of York, the Lendal Bridge, Millennium Bridge and Skeldergate Bridge span which river?
8 The Hotel Negresco first opened in 1913 in which French resort city?
9 60 Andrassy Street was which country’s much-feared secret police HQ?
10 Graham Sutherland’s