1 Who married Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela in 1958?
2 Crêpes suzette are pancakes flavoured with which fruit sauce?
3 In 1964, which firm launched the first commercial “desktop computer”, the Programma 101?
4 Which Frenchman composed the 1959 opera La voix humaine and the Gloria (1961)?
5 Which highly prized species of the flatfish family has the Latin name Scophthalmus maximus?
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6 Which blind leader of the Fourth Crusade was elected the doge of Venice, aged 85, in 1192?
7 Cellist Jacqueline du Pré converted to Judaism in order to marry which conductor in 1967?
8 Which Belgian dramatist wrote the 1908 play The Blue Bird?
9 The champagne pioneer Dom Pérignon belonged to which monastic order?
10 Built on the site of the Dunes hotel, which Las Vegas Strip hotel resort is named after a Lake Como town?
11 First held in 1966, what is Europe’s largest street festival?
12 Hosting Japan’s most famous rock garden, Ryoan-ji (Peaceful Dragon Temple) is a Zen temple in which city?
13 Which First World War artist painted Paths of Glory (1917) and Any Wintry Afternoon in England (1930)?
14 Which 1887 and 1889 winner of the Open Championship designed Sunningdale’s Old Course?
15 Which Man’s Fate author is pictured?
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Answers
1 Nelson Mandela
2 Orange
3 Olivetti
4 Francis Poulenc
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5 Turbot
6 Enrico Dandolo
7 Daniel Barenboim
8 Maurice Maeterlinck
9 Benedictine order
10 Bellagio
11 Notting Hill Carnival
12 Kyoto
13 Christopher RW Nevinson
14 Willie Park Jr
15 André Malraux
