1 In geometry, a rhombus has how many sides?
2 Which Steve Coogan character was born in 1955 in King’s Lynn but grew up in Norwich?
3 What is the most populous town in Dorset?
4 Which Radio 4 programme began life as How Does Your Garden Grow? in 1947?
5 Which city’s metro is often cited as the busiest system in China and also as the world’s longest?
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6 In 1966, George Harrison became a student of which Indian sitar master?
7 Which pungent gas with the formula SO2 is formed primarily by the combustion of fossil fuels?
8 Project Blue Book was the US air force’s secret series of investigations into which mysterious objects?
9 Founded c 600BC by Greek settlers from Phocaea, what is the oldest city in France?
10 Which New York rap trio launched their magazine Grand Royal in 1993?
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11 Who co-created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man with Carl Reiner?
12 Located outside the village of Wetton, Thor’s Cave is a natural cavern in which county?
13 Which Danish architect (1813-91) designed Vienna’s Musikverein concert hall in the neoclassical style?
14 Which British amateur golfer is played by Mark Rylance in the new film The Phantom of the Open?
15 Sharing its name with a type of supernatural being, which cropped hairstyle is pictured?
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Answers
1 Four
2 Alan Partridge
3 Bournemouth. Previously in Hampshire, it became part of Dorset in 1974
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4 Gardeners’ Question Time. Renamed in 1951, it went nationwide in 1957, having been first broadcast on the Northern network
5 Shanghai
6 Ravi Shankar
7 Sulphur dioxide
8 Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related phenomena
9 Marseilles. The Greeks originally founded the colony of Massalia
10 Beastie Boys
11 Mel Brooks
12 Staffordshire
13 Theophil Hansen
14 Maurice Flitcroft
15 Pixie cut or pixie crop