1 Which type of election takes place if a seat in the Commons becomes vacant between general elections?
2 The term “silverback” is used to describe a mature male of which type of primate?
3 In 2005 Ian McKellen played the role of Mel Hutchwright, aka Lionel Hipkiss, in which ITV show?
4 Which current Virgin Radio UK breakfast show host founded Ginger Productions in 1994?
5 Who played the fashion model discovery Jo Stockton in the 1957 film musical Funny Face?
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6 Which Muriel Spark character says: “Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life”?
7 Which painter was born in Augsburg, trained in Basel and spent 13 years in England (in 1526-28, 1532-43)?
8 Born in 1239, which king was the first son of Henry III?
9 Sharing his surname with a Hyundai car, which jazz saxophonist’s recording of The Girl from Ipanema features Astrud Gilberto?
10 Mars is red because its surface material contains large amounts of which compound?
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11 Which Scottish naval officer (1775-1860) was nicknamed Le Loup des Mers (“the Sea Wolf”) by Napoleon?
12 Which Austrian thinker’s notorious book Sex and Character (1903) gained popularity after his suicide aged 23?
13 Which Mesopotamian god of death, war and plague is the son of Enlil and Ninlil?
14 Which Englishman won the first of his four world billiards championships in 1928?
15 Described as “Scotland’s Einstein”, which physicist (1831-79) is pictured?
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Answers
1 By-election
2 Gorilla
3 Coronation Street
4 Chris Evans
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5 Audrey Hepburn
6 Miss Jean Brodie
7 Hans Holbein the Younger
8 Edward I
9 Stan Getz
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10 Iron oxide
11 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
12 Otto Weininger
13 Nergal — also known as Erra and Irra
14 Joe Davis
15 James Clerk Maxwell