Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1. Which Welsh author was aged 62 when she published her first novel, Thursdays in the Park, in 2011?
2. Carved into granite cliffs on the south Cornish coast, which open-air theatre was created by Rowena Cade?
3. What was located in 1956 just off the island of Beckholmen by Anders Franzén?
4. Which Japanese word meaning “Japanese cow” refers to high-quality beef famed for its intense marbling?
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5. Which school was founded in 1885 as Wimbledon House by the sisters Penelope, Millicent and Dorothy Lawrence?
6. Used in a Russian banya (steam bath), what are veniki?
7. Which 1948-49 mission was called “Operation Vittles” by the US and “Operation Plainfare” by the UK?
8. The 2012-13 TV costume drama The Paradise relocated which Émile Zola novel to north-east England?
9. Which dormant volcano in Hawaii is the world’s tallest mountain as measured from its base below sea level to its summit?
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10. Which composer of a 1934 Fantasia on Greensleeves wrote three Norfolk Rhapsodies?
11. Vladimir Lenin in Smolny is a 1930 work by which Soviet painter, the first to be awarded the Order of Lenin?
12. René Descartes regarded which gland as the “principal seat of the soul”?
13. Who is the only monarch to be born and die at Buckingham Palace?
14. In 1968, which American boxer won the Olympic heavyweight title?
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15. Located on the Columbia River, what is the pictured dam?
Answers
1. Hilary Boyd
2. Minack Theatre
3. The shipwreck of the Swedish galleon Vasa
4. Wagyu
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5. Roedean School
6. Clusters of branches such as birch, oak and eucalyptus that are used to slap the body
7. The Berlin airlift
8. Au Bonheur des Dames or The Ladies’ Paradise
9. Mauna Kea — it is 10,205m above the sea floor; Everest reaches the highest altitude
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10. Ralph Vaughan Williams
11. Isaak Brodsky
12. Pineal gland
13. Edward VII
14. George Foreman
15. Grand Coulee Dam