1 Which English actor (1566-1626) was the founder of Dulwich College?
2 Who is thought to have completed the landscape and sky of the Sleeping Venus (c 1510) after Giorgione’s death?
3 Getting to Know You and Shall We Dance? are numbers in which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?
4 Which cathedral has been the main burial site for Danish monarchs since the 15th century?
5 Which Shakespeare play is set during the Trojan War?
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6 Bayview Retirement Home, near Bournemouth, was the setting for which sitcom (1990-94)?
7 Which Scottish actor starred in the films 300, Machine Gun Preacher and Olympus Has Fallen?
8 Which king was born at the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich on June 28, 1491?
9 Why is Lake Nyasa, aka Lake Malawi sometimes called “the calendar lake”?
10 Which American jeweller cut the Taylor-Burton diamond into the shape of a pear weighing 69.42 carats?
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11 Which Liberal Party politician served as chairman of the Australian Republic Movement from 1993 to 2000?
12 Which MP for Abingdon, from 1953 to 1979, was the first British officer to successfully escape from Colditz?
13 The gravestone of which Salford-born physicist (1818-89) is inscribed with the number 772.55?
14 Dean Court, aka the Vitality Stadium, is the home ground of which football club?
15 Which American racehorse (1917-47) is pictured?
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Answers
1 Edward Alleyn
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2 Titian
3 The King and I
4 Roskilde Cathedral
5 Troilus and Cressida
6 Waiting for God
7 Gerard Butler
8 Henry VIII
9 Because it is about 365 miles long
10 Harry Winston
11 Malcolm Turnbull
12 Airey Neave
13 James Prescott Joule. It is his most accurate 1878 measurement of the mechanical equivalent of heat
14 AFC Bournemouth
15 Man o’ War