Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1. Born Sonya Kalish, which US vaudeville performer (1887-1966) was known as “the Last of the Red Hot Mamas”?
2. Ghosts abduct the young girl Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O’Rourke) in which 1982 film?
3. Which pilgrimage city of the Baha’i faith in Israel is also home to the Al-Jazzar Mosque and Khan al-Umdan?
4. Mahamadou Issoufou has been re-elected president of which country, the largest in western Africa?
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5. Taking place on September 3, 1651, what was the final battle of the English Civil War?
6. Who introduced Superintendent Battle in her 1925 novel The Secret of Chimneys?
7. Which patron saint of Florence was the son of Zechariah and Elizabeth?
8. Created in 1351, which duchy was first held by Henry Grosmont and is currently held by the Queen?
9. Doctors Cameron, Chase, Wilson, Foreman and Taub featured in which US TV drama?
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10. The Maipo Valley wine region is in which South American country?
11. Created in 1747, Industry and Idleness is a series of 12 engravings by which English artist?
12. Mata-Utu is the capital of which French overseas collectivity in the Pacific?
13. Used in demonstrations of tabletop “volcanoes”, which compound is sometimes called “Vesuvian fire”?
14. Which Super League rugby league side plays home games at Stade Gilbert Brutus?
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15. Name the pictured dog breed.
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Answers
1. Sophie Tucker
2. Poltergeist
3. Acre, Akko or Akka
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4. Niger
5. Battle of Worcester
6. Agatha Christie
7. John the Baptist
8. Duchy of Lancaster
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9. House
10. Chile
11. William Hogarth
12. Wallis and Futuna
13. Ammonium dichromate
14. Catalans Dragons
15. Dachshund