1 In June, which US pop star became the first person to reach 100 million Twitter followers?
2 In the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence, which creature pecked off the maid’s nose?
3 The flagship publication of the Gannett Company, which American daily newspaper was founded by Al Neuharth in 1982?
4 Topped with whipped cream, a Mont Blanc is a dessert of puréed, sweetened what?
5 In 1789, which Frenchman published the Traité élémentaire de chimie, the first modern chemical textbook?
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6 Which two South American countries have no land border with Brazil?
7 Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918) is a work by which Russian painter?
8 Who won the 1983 Booker prize for his novel Life & Times of Michael K?
9 In the 1480s, the Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão found the mouth of which river, the second longest in Africa?
10 Richard Chamberlain played which Russian composer in the 1970 film The Music Lovers?
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11 Featured in the 2013 documentary Blackfish, Tilikum was a notorious captive what?
12 Which Russian animator directed the shorts Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) and Tale of Tales (1979)?
13 Which president of Catalonia is the only incumbent democratically elected president in European history to have been executed?
14 Nicknamed the Log o’ Wood, the Ranfurly Shield is an interprovincial rugby union trophy in which country?
15 Nicknamed the Wedding Cake, which Rome landmark is pictured?
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Answers
1 Katy Perry
2 Blackbird
3 USA Today
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4 Chestnuts
5 Antoine Lavoisier
6 Chile and Ecuador
7 Kazimir Malevich
8 JM Coetzee
9 Congo River aka Zaire River
10 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
11 Orca or killer whale
12 Yuriy Norshteyn aka Yuri Norstein
13 Lluís Companys. He was executed by firing squad in 1940 by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco
14 New Zealand
15 Altare della Patria or Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II or Monument of Victor Emmanuel II or Il Vittoriano