Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1. Bruno Platter (b 1944) is the 65th and current grand master of which order, founded in 1190?
2. Which Tears for Fears cover was the 2003 UK Christmas No 1?
3. The adductor magnus muscle is on the medial side of which body area?
4. Born Anne Isabella Milbanke, the future 11th Baroness Wentworth married which poet in 1815?
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5. Loplop is a bird-man alter ego that recurs in prints, collages and paintings by which German surrealist artist?
6. They Call Me Mister Tibbs! was the 1970 sequel to which Oscar-winning film?
7. Which Sun on Sunday columnist writes crime novels about DC Max Wolfe?
8. Nicknamed the “lady of the stream”, which salmon family fish is Thymallus thymallus?
9. Virgil Thomson’s 1947 opera The Mother of Us All chronicles the life of which US suffragist?
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10. Designed by Andrew Higgins and used in the Second World War, what was an LCVP?
11. The Siq is the main entrance to which ancient city in southern Jordan?
12. The potato-shaped Hyperion is the largest of which planet’s irregular moons?
13. Considered a national drink in Turkey, what type of beverage is ayran?
14. At the 1960 Rome Olympics, which Hungarian fencer won his sixth straight gold in the team sabre event?
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15. Which sport is being played?
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Answers
1. Teutonic Order
2. Mad World by Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules
3. Thigh
4. Lord Byron
5. Max Ernst
6. In the Heat of the Night
7. Tony Parsons — Wolfe features in The Murder Bag and The Slaughter Man
8. Grayling
9. Susan B Anthony
10. Higgins boat or landing craft, vehicle, personnel
11. Petra
12. Saturn
13. Cold non-alcoholic yogurt beverage mixed with salt
14. Aladár Gerevich
15. Floorball