published in the 1890s, naming villages in which English county?
30. With which Foreign Secretary did Lord Castlereagh, the then Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, fight a duel on Putney Heath in 1809?
31. Modern Tanzania consists of the former state of Tanganyika, along with three islands. Pemba and Mafia are two; which is the third?
32. Which TV weather forecaster was the subject of a novelty hit song by the Wearside band A Tribe of Toffs in 1988?
33. Which battle of the Vietnam War, fought by the United States and South Vietnam against North Vietnamese forces from 10th May until 20th May 1969, was made into a John Irvine directed film of 1987?
34. The Arctic gets its name from Arktikos, the ancient name for a constellation, which in turn derives its name from the Greek word arktos – meaning what?
35. Which Russian composer died on the same day as Joseph Stalin in 1953?
36. What name is given to the specific speed an object must achieve as a minimum, if it is rising against the pull of gravity, so that it will not return to the object exerting the gravitational field?
37. Which supposedly mystical word of seven Greek letters was used in ancient engravings on precious stones and amulets, and was also used as an album title by the rock group Santana?
38. Which word, taken from a name for the divine intoxicating drink of the gods in Hindu mythology, was used by Aldous Huxley for the drug that subdues the populace in the novel Brave New World?
39. In the game of backgammon, how many playing pieces are on the board at the beginning, in total?
40. In 1955, which Dutch artist created the children’s character known in English as Miffy the rabbit?
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1. What kind of performer would be most likely to use a swazzle?
2. LHOOQ is a bawdy title given to an artwork of 1919 by Marcel Duchamp, consisting of a reproduction of a very famous portrait, on whose face he had drawn a beard and moustache in pencil. Which portrait?
3. The dormant volcano Mount Rainier, and the National Park that bears its name, are to be found in which state of the USA?
4. The 1896 novel Quo Vadis, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, and the film adaptation of 1951, are set in Rome in the time of which Emperor?
5. Which former journalist on the Atlanta Constitution in Georgia wrote the stories which provided the basis for the 1946 Disney film Song of the South?
6. What criminal-sounding name is given to the broad-nosed marsh crocodile, found in parts of India and Sri Lanka and traditionally venerated in the Hindu religion?
7. In the binary system, what conventional number is expressed as 1111?
8. What is the name of the faun, the first inhabitant of the land of Narnia to be introduced in the novels of C. S. Lewis?
9. The ancient mathematician, Euclid; the chemist and chrystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin; and Naguib Mahfouz, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, were all born in which country?
10. In a dramatic monologue by J. Milton Hayes, whose grave is tended by ‘a broken-hearted woman’ beneath the gaze of a ‘one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu’?
11. How many sides does a hendecagon have?
12. Whose acclaimed 2009 play Jerusalem centres around Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron, a defiant drop-out living in a ramshackle mobile home, played in the original production by Mark Rylance?
13. According to a widely-quoted comment by the polyglot Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, he supposedly spoke Spanish to God, Italian to women and French to men. Which language did he reserve for his horse?
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