are there in Switzerland?
6 What type of horse racing does not include fences and obstacles?
7 What is the square root of 25?
8 Which Black Sea peninsula was the location of a war in the 19th century?
9 Which Lancashire seaside resort has a famous Pleasure Beach?
10 Rory Bremner and Chris Barrie were among the people providing voices on which satirical show of the 1980s and 1990s?
11 Edinburgh has what postcode area code?
12 Where did Joan of Arc win her famous victory against the English?
13 What is the term for an irrational fear of enclosed spaces?
14 What is organza?
15 Paddington, Marylebone and Waterloo are linked by which London Underground line?
16 What metallic element is mixed with tin to form the alloy bronze?
17 In which decade did Channel 4 start?
18 What do the letters PS stand for at the end of a letter?
19 Which fictional sleuth featured in the mystery Death on the Nile?
20 Who hosted the 2006 FIFA World Cup?
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1 Who wrote the 1968 novel Airport?
2 Which famous children’s author and artist lived and worked in the Lake District for much of her life?
3 Who was the dictator of Oceania in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four?
4 In The Jungle Book, what is the name of the bear?
5 Who wrote The Hobbit?
6 “Water, water everywhere” are words from which Coleridge poem?
7 Who wrote the fable The Fox and the Grapes?
8 Who wrote the 1938 novel Rebecca?
9 Which book includes the words “All for one and one for all”?
10 Who created the character of Huckleberry Finn?
11 From which country does Hercule Poirot hail?
12 Which famous novel begins “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”?
13 Which classic book features Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad?
14 Who wrote the novel Brighton Rock (1938)?
15 Why was Tweedledum cross with Tweedledee?
16 Passepartout is Phileas Fogg’s manservant in which 1873 novel?
17 Lee Child has written about which fictional character since 1997?
18 What is the surname of Arthur, the main character in The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
19 The Casual Vacancy was the first foray into adult fiction for which children’s author?
20 In what country are Jo Nesbo’s books set?
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1 Who played James Bond in The World Is Not Enough?
2 He is the chemical symbol for which element?
3 The letter D is on which row of a computer keyboard?
4 In cricket how many balls are there in an over?
5 What is the next highest prime number above 31?
6 Who hosted the UK game show, Deal or No Deal?
7 Which character “stole a pig and away did run”?
8 Which tragic Shakespearean king had three daughters?
9 What is a cheroot?
10 On a dartboard, what number is to the immediate left of 20?
11 What source of light is used in producing a hologram?
12 What type of animal is a springbok?
13 In which county is Kidderminster?
14 What is the surname of the central gangster family in Peaky Blinders?
15 Who created the sculpture The Angel of the North?
16 What is the hardest gemstone?
17 In Scrabble®, what colour are the triple-word score squares?
18 Which mountain range runs through Peru and Chile?
19 In Dad’s Army, what did Pike’s mother always try to make him wear?
20 The 1985 event Live Aid was organised to provide aid to which country?
