1 Which French electronic musician released the album, Oxygène, in 1976?
2 Which Only Fools and Horses star voiced the children’s TV characters Count Duckula and Danger Mouse?
3 An ingredient in amatriciana sauce, what is guanciale?
4 In A Clockwork Orange, whose gang of droogs includes Pete, Georgie and Dim?
5 Which fashion designer, the wife of Alexander Plunket Greene, opened the King’s Road shop Bazaar in 1955?
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6 Which terrier breed is named after a Scottish Gaelic-derived term for a man-made pile of stones?
7 Which June 19-20, 1944 naval clash was the largest aircraft carrier battle in history?
8 Which desert of Central Asia is named from the Mongolian for “waterless place”?
9 Don Giovanni Tenorio (1787) is which Italian composer’s most famous opera?
10 The standard model of cosmology indicates that the universe’s total mass-energy contains 68.3 per cent what?
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11 Which French philosopher, author of The Poetics of Space (1958), introduced the concept of the epistemological break?
12 Frank Gehry’s Binoculars Building, aka Chat/Day Building, in Los Angeles incorporates a public artwork by who?
13 The Soviet war drama Ivan’s Childhood (1962) was which director’s first feature film?
14 In 2015, Ning Zetao became the first Chinese man to win which swimming event at the world championships?
15 Which English conductor (1879-1961) is pictured?
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Answers
1 Jean-Michel Jarre
2 David Jason
3 Cured pork cheek or jowl
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4 Alex
5 Mary Quant
6 Cairn terrier
7 Battle of the Philippine Sea. It included 15 US fleet and light carriers and nine Japanese carriers
8 Gobi
9 Giuseppe Gazzaniga
10 Dark energy
11 Gaston Bachelard
12 Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
13 Andrei Tarkovsky
14 100m freestyle
15 Sir Thomas Beecham