1 The African island of São Tomé was named by the Portuguese after which saint?
2 Paul Nash depicted “England’s great aerial victory over Germany” in which 1941 painting?
3 Which short men’s haircut is named after a Roman statesman who was assassinated in 44 BC?
4 “Chiantishire” is a nickname for an area of which Italian region?
5 Which Jane Austen novel begins: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man …”?
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6 Which 2023 Top 3 hit for SZA shares its title with a two-volume film by Quentin Tarantino?
7 Which Black Sea port is the largest city in Crimea?
8 Which English poet wrote: “And much it grieved my heart to think/ What man has made of man”?
9 In the 1980s, which English film-maker directed Altered States, Crimes of Passion and The Rainbow?
10 The legendary flop 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976) was which US composer’s last Broadway show?
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11 What type of building is the Phare de Gatteville in Normandy?
12 Who won the 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Award for her show A Bic for Her?
13 Which Beirut-born, London-based chef wrote the 2018 cookbook Feast: Food of the Islamic World?
14 Which Formula One team signed the British driver George Russell in 2021?
15 Known as the British “Queen of Jazz” (b 1927), who is this singer?
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1 Saint Thomas or Thomas the Apostle
2 Battle of Britain
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3 Caesar cut
4 Tuscany
5 Pride and Prejudice. The quote continues “… in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
6 Kill Bill
7 Sevastopol
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8 William Wordsworth, in Lines Written in Early Spring (1798)
9 Ken Russell
10 Leonard Bernstein
11 Lighthouse
12 Bridget Christie
13 Anissa Helou
14 Mercedes
15 Cleo Laine