Which South African president ordered Nelson Mandela’s release from prison?
3 Which Steven Spielberg film is based on the story of conman Frank Abagnale Jr.?
4 Which English dramatist (b.1968) wrote the plays No Boys Cricket Club, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads and Sucker Punch?
5 In 1987, Robert Brozin and Fernando Duarte founded which Mozambican-Portuguese-themed restaurant chain in the Johannesburg suburb Rosettenville?
6 Mark Billingham introduced which Detective Inspector, played on TV by David Morrissey, in the 2001 novel Sleepyhead?
7 Which Flemish artist painted the 24-picture Marie de’ Médici cycle?
8 Which academic press is the world’s oldest printer and publisher?
9 Trinidad Turn, Orchid Turn and Balboa Reach are points on which canal?
10 Vincenzo Bellini’s final opera I Puritani is set during which war?
11 Pigeon drop, Pig in a poke and the Spanish Prisoner are types of what?
12 The “Venice of the Pacific”, Nan Madol is a ruined city in which country?
13 Outperforming spider silk, what is the strongest biological material ever tested?
14 Which 1857 symphony by Franz Liszt was inspired by Goethe’s namesake drama?
15 Corresponding to a medicine man, the angakkuq is a spiritual figure among which people?
16 Sir Henry Bessemer gave his name to a process for the manufacture of which alloy?
17 Which former NASA roboticist began the webcomic xkcd in 2005?
18 Which England bowler (1865–1901) holds the record for lowest strike rate in all Test history?
19 Who won the 1989 Tour de France by just eight seconds from Laurent Fignon?
20 Name the bombard gun in the picture –
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1 In the 1990s, the conman Alan Conway passed himself off as which film director?
2 Which 1983 Wham! music video was filmed at Pikes Hotel in Ibiza?
3 Ernest Hemingway wrote that “all modern American literature” comes from which book?
4 In 2013, who began playing Mick Carter in EastEnders?
5 Jeanne Hébuterne was the common-law wife of which Italian artist (1884–1920)?
6 In 1865, the first ascent of which mountain cost the lives of four alpinists?
7 Which Russian composed the piano fantasy Islamey and symphonic poem Tamara?
8 Which song was composed in 1893 as Good Morning to All?
9 Lope de Vega’s epic poem La Dragontea is about which Elizabethan sailor?
10 What did an Ancient Greek woman do with a peplos and a himation?
11 Which industry in France was devastated by the pest, phylloxera, in the 1870s?
12 Invented by Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc was the first electronic what?
13 Which Russian-born US photographer published A Vanished World in 1983?
14 In 910, William I, Duke of Aquitaine, founded which Benedictine abbey in Burgundy?
15 Which US actor-comedian and star of The Hangover movies hosts the internet comedy series Between Two Ferns?
16 The ‘Rice Portrait’ is a disputed likeness of which author in her youth?
17 Sir Eric Drummond (1876–1951) was which organisation’s first Secretary General?
18 Which horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1989?
19 Golfer Ian Poulter was given which nickname because he always delivers?
20 What is the pictured hat style?
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1 The PIDE was which European country’s secret police force?
2 Which Chinese lager is the best-selling beer brand in the world?
3 Which “High Priest of Soul” released the 1962 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music?
4 What is the surname of the unruly Wolverhampton-based family in the sitcom Raised by Wolves?
5 Which small strait in the Norwegian municipality of Bodø has the world’s strongest tidal current?
6 Who is the only monarch to be born and die at Buckingham Palace?
7 What is the oldest university in the English-speaking world?
8 Monica Ali’s 2011 novel Untold Story imagines that which princess faked her own death?
9 Which dictator, who died in Saudi Arabia in 2003, said: “I don’t like human flesh – it’s too salty for me”?
10 The 5p coin is legal tender for amounts up to how many pounds?
11 Ludovic Kennedy married which Scottish ballet dancer in 1950?
12 PC George Dixon (played by Jack Warner) was shot by a young Dirk Bogarde (playing “hardened” criminal Tom Riley) in which 1950 film?
13 Charles Babbage, Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Harold Pinter are buried in which London cemetery?
14 Which Venetian painted Laura, The Three Philosophers and The Tempest?
15 What did James I call “a custome lothesome to the eye