1 Which county council recently moved its headquarters from Kingston upon Thames to Reigate?
2 Semidiurnal tides happen how many times every day?
3 In the title of a 1962 single by the Four Seasons, which people Don’t Cry?
4 Broadway producer Mike Todd died in a 1958 plane crash. Whom had he married in 1957?
5 Which epic poem by Homer inspired Margaret Atwood’s 2005 work The Penelopiad?
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6 In biology, which type of interspecies relationship occurs when one species is harmed while the other benefits?
7 Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles designed which great Byzantine church of Constantinople?
8 A special self-governing city, Sejong is the de facto administrative capital of which country?
9 The title character of which Coen brothers film was inspired by Greenwich Village folk legend Dave Van Ronk?
10 Robert Bresson’s last film, L’Argent (1983), was based on part of a novella by which Russian writer?
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11 Capella is the brightest star in which constellation of the northern sky?
12 Which Singin’ in the Rain lyricist won Oscars for producing Gigi and An American in Paris?
13 In 1958, Yevgeny Vuchetich unveiled his 15-ton Moscow monument to which Bolshevik secret police founder?
14 Germany’s premier football coaching institute, the Hennes-Weisweiler Academy, is in Hennef near which city?
15 Which Essex pop singer (b 1991) is pictured?
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Answers
1 Surrey County Council
2 Twice
3 Big Girls
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4 Elizabeth Taylor
5 The Odyssey
6 Parasitism
7 Hagia Sophia
8 South Korea
9 Inside Llewyn Davis
10 Leo Tolstoy — author of The Forged Coupon
11 Auriga (the Charioteer)
12 Arthur Freed
13 Felix Dzerzhinsky
14 Bonn
15 Anne-Marie or Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson