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The Times Quiz Book: 4000 challenging general knowledge questions


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Born Claire Elise Boucher, which Canadian musician released her fourth studio album, Art Angels, in 2015?

      7 Cannabis’ psychoactive constituent THC is known by what full name?

      8 Which German won the 1920 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his statement of the third law of thermodynamics?

      9 Which explorer dictated Il milione to his cellmate Rustichello da Pisa?

      10 In 1991, the Munich currency printer Giesecke & Devrient produced the first of which cards?

      11 Which US TV drama centres on the crisis management firm Olivia Pope & Associates?

      12 Blanche is the actual name of the white cat in which David Hockney painting?

      13 Mistress Overdone, Pompey, Elbow and Abhorson the executioner are characters in which Shakespeare play?

      14 HMS Vanguard was which rear admiral’s flagship at the 1798 Battle of the Nile?

      15 Launched in 1988, Buran was the first and only Soviet what?

      16 Built by CERN, what is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator?

      17 The lightest halogen, which pale yellow gas is the most reactive chemical element?

      18 Nicknamed ‘Kid Poker’, which Canadian is the highest earning live tournament poker player of all time?

      19 Which world title was won by East Germany’s Detlef Michel and the Finns, Seppo Räty and Kimmo Kinnunen?

      20 Which Aztec god of music and dance is pictured?

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      1 Master of Reality (1971) was which English rock band’s first top 10 album in the US?

      2 Which member of The Slits wrote the memoir Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.?

      3 Which English band released the 2015 debut album My Love is Cool?

      4 Which US singer had a no.2 hit with her single Heartbreaker in 1982?

      5 Formed in 1981 by Nicolas Sirkis and Dominique Nicolas, which French band’s 2002 album Paradize included the chart-topper J’ai demandé à la lune?

      6 Which group’s debut album features the songs VCR, Crystalised and Islands?

      7 Whose albums include Blue, The Hissing of Summer Lawns and Hejira?

      8 In a 1968 no.1 single, which “saviour of the human race … invented medicinal compound”?

      9 Which song begins: “When Britain first, at Heaven’s command, / Arose from out the azure main”?

      10 Who had his second no.1 with Poor Me in 1960?

      11 Which 17-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter had a 2016 no.1 with Stitches?

      12 The family business D’Addario is best known for making which musical equipment?

      13 Which US band released the “rural hippie anthem” Going Up the Country (1968)?

      14 In a Beatles song, who “picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been”?

      15 Girl in a Band is a 2015 memoir by which former Sonic Youth member?

      16 Which Bee Gees song’s 103 beats per minute is the perfect rhythm for performing CPR?

      17 Which British rock band had a US no.1 single with Here I Go Again in 1987?

      18 Which former Loose Women panellist is the mother of The 1975 lead singer Matt Healy?

      19 Which South African-born artist painted the 2011 Amy Winehouse portrait Amy-Blue?

      20 Which Public Enemy member is pictured?

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      1 Sable is the heraldic term for which colour?

      2 Thomas Young’s double-slit experiment disproved which scientist’s corpuscular theory of light?

      3 Which Egyptian was the first Muslim Nobel laureate?

      4 Which comedy legend wrote the 1963 comic novel Puckoon?

      5 Chopin referred to which work, dedicated to the Countess Delfina Potocka, as The Little Dog Waltz?

      6 The Austrian, Erwin Perzy I, invented which type of transparent sphere by accident in 1900?

      7 Which TV family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace?

      8 Which southern province of Spain is Europe’s driest region?

      9 Also known for his 1920 opera Die tote Stadt, which Brno-born composer won an Oscar for his score to The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)?

      10 The world’s largest book stands upright, set in stone, in the grounds of the Kuthodaw Pagoda in which Burmese city?

      11 By what grisly name is titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), the flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, also known?

      12 The photographer Rankin and Jefferson Hack founded which style magazine in 1991?

      13 What is the longest motorway in the UK?

      14 The Pythian Games were held in honour of which Greek god?

      15 Chicago’s Rydell High School is the setting for which musical?

      16 Dangerous Lady (1992) was which crime writer’s first published novel?

      17 “The relentless building block video puzzle” was a slogan used for which game?

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