Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1. Which wife of Uriah the Hittite later became the mother of King Solomon?
2. The 1985 film King David starred which US actor in the title role?
3. Which volume of poetry includes A Voyage to Cythera, The Bad Monk, The Sick Muse and The Vampire?
4. Which prime minister appointed Oswald Mosley as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster?
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5. The highest in the world, Tanggula Railway Station is located where?
6. Which early netherlandish master painted the Lucca Madonna in 1436?
7. Which US dramatist wrote Fool for Love (1983) and Simpatico (1993)?
8. An important source of protein for southern Africans, what are mopane worms?
9. The ancient temple of Baal Shamin in which city has been destroyed by Isis?
10. Which X Factor winner sang the Avatar film theme song I See You?
11. Henri Dutilleux composed Tout un monde lointain... (A whole distant world...) for which cellist?
12. Entering service in 1954, the Hunter transonic jet was made by which company?
13. Surviving on the Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, the Soay and Boreray are breeds of what?
14. What is the northernmost city to have hosted a summer Olympic Games?
15. Which Scottish-born actor is pictured?
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Answers
1. Bathsheba — who married King David
2. Richard Gere
3. The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal) by Charles Baudelaire
4. Ramsay MacDonald
5. Tibet
6. Jan van Eyck
7. Sam Shepard
8. Edible caterpillars of the moth Gonimbrasia belina
9. Palmyra
10. Leona Lewis
11. Mstislav Rostropovich
12. Hawker Siddeley
13. Sheep
14. Helsinki — in 1952
15. John Sessions