In a film of 2015, the actor Alex Jennings played two aspects of the personality of which writer, in a device which allowed the character to be portrayed having arguments with himself?
40. The more common name for calcium magnesium carbonate is also the name of a range of Alps in north-eastern Italy. What is it?
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1. The surname Fletcher specifically refers to a person who makes and sells what?
2. Mons Meg, a siege gun presented to King James the Second of Scotland in 1457, is now housed in which castle?
3. Which American poet, who died in 1886, was known as the ‘nun of Amherst’?
4. Known as the master endocrine gland, which gland situated at the base of the brain secretes hormones that regulate a number of bodily processes, including growth, reproduction and other metabolic activities?
5. In literature, theatre and film, who is hounded throughout his life by Inspector Javert?
6. The song ‘Here in My Heart’, as sung by Al Martino, holds what particular distinction in the history of the British pop charts?
7. Wood-spack, hood-awl, eccle and yaffle are all local names for which bird?
8. The jazz musician Erroll Garner is most closely associated with which instrument?
9. The National Library of Wales is to be found in which coastal town?
10. Can you name either of the two other Patricians who, along with Julius Caesar, formed what’s often called the ‘First Triumvirate’, to rule the Roman Empire in 60 BC?
11. Which American cartoonist born in 1954, whose first success was the syndicated strip-cartoon Life In Hell, is also the creator of The Simpsons?
12. The job of publishing a verbatim record of the proceedings of parliament was taken over by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office from which family, whose established job it had been for much of the 19th century?
13. Which civil engineer born in 1832 became known as the ‘Magician of Iron’?
14. The Eiffel Tower was built to celebrate the centenary of which event?
15. The use of which chemical, at the time being used to treat sewage in Carlisle, was pioneered from 1866 by Joseph Lister as an antiseptic, in solution, at Glasgow Royal Infirmary?
16. Jenkins Hill in Washington DC is now better known by a name referring to a building, begun in the 1790s, which stands upon it. What name is that?
17. The conspiracy to murder all the members of the cabinet in 1820 is known by the name of a street in the Marylebone area of west London: what’s it called?
18. Which is the only English city whose name begins with T?
19. In geometry, what name is given to any angle that is greater than 180 degrees (but smaller than 360 degrees)?
20. The Austrian monk Gregor Mendel derived his genetic theories from his experiments during the 1860s with what kind of plants?
21. What type of star, the smallest and densest known, is produced when a massive star explodes as a supernova, exceeding what’s called the Chandrasekhar Limit, and then collapses into itself?
22. Which fictional reporter made his debut appearance in a story called Land of the Soviets in 1929?
23. The Land of Green Ginger is the name of a street in which Northern British city?
24. Ginger You’re Barmy! is a comic novel based on the author’s own experience of National Service in the 1950s, by a writer and academic best known for novels set on university campuses. Who is he?
25. Which isotope of hydrogen is the principal component of heavy water?
26. ‘Gimme a viskey, ginger ale on the side – and don’t be stingy, baby’ – was the first line ever spoken on film by which star?
27. In which decade was Switzerland admitted to membership of the United Nations?
28. What two-word term describes the temperature at which air becomes saturated and unable to hold any more water vapour?
29. What forename was shared by Jane Austen’s mother and older sister?
30. Which English logician gave his name to diagrams of mathematical sets, in which intersecting areas denote elements that are common to the sets represented?
31. Who wrote the much-anthologised English poem that opens with the lines: ‘So, we’ll go no more a-roving / So late into the night / Though the heart be still as loving / And the moon be still as bright’?
32. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, and the inventor of the domestic sewing machine in the 19th century, share the same forename and surname: what are they?
33. Which inland sea is bounded by Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan?
34. Although unrelated, the pop singers Joe Cocker and Jarvis Cocker both came from which British city?
35. The name of which artistic movement is thought to have originated in a less-than-complimentary comment by the critic Louis Vauxcelles, reviewing an exhibition of the work of Georges Braque, in 1908?
36. The man who was Surveyor of the King’s, and later the Queen’s, Pictures between 1945 and 1972, and Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art from 1947 to 1974, later became known to the general public for other reasons entirely. Who was he?
37. Which branch of mechanics is concerned with the motion of objects under the actions of forces?
38. First published in 1982, the anthology The Rattle Bag is a collection of the favourite poems of the two poets who edited it. They were Ted Hughes and – who else?
39. The rock ‘n’ roll song ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, recorded most famously by Elvis Presley, was written by which performer, another Sun Records
