1 Leslie Coffelt is the only Secret Service member to have been killed while doing what?
2 Boryeong, south of Seoul, hosts a July festival involving which substance?
3 Which New Mexico city is associated with a 1947 UFO incident?
4 In 1955, which Delbert Mann film became the inaugural winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes?
5 Which stretch of Namibian seaboard is known to local Bushmen as “the land God made in anger”?
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6 Rottnest Island, Australia, is home to which cat-sized macropod with the Latin name Setonix brachyurus?
7 Which Chiswick brewer’s ESB (Extra Special Bitter) has been named World Champion Beer twice?
8 Thomas Fitzgerald, aka “Silken Thomas”, 10th Earl of Kildare, was executed for rebelling against which king?
9 What is the largest island in the Tuscan Archipelago?
10 Which 1964 Righteous Brothers hit was the most played radio song of the 20th century in the US?
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11 Which poet defended freedom of speech in his 1644 tract Areopagitica?
12 In which city was the monument Nelson’s Pillar completed in Sackville Street in 1809?
13 Founded by St Othmar, the Abbey of St Gall is in which country?
14 In 2008, which NFL team lost all their 16 games, conceding 517 points?
15 Which fruit tree, with the Latin name Eriobotrya japonica, is pictured?
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Answers
1 Protecting a US president (Harry S Truman in 1950). He was shot in an attack by two Puerto Rican nationalists
2 Mud
3 Roswell
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4 Marty
5 Skeleton Coast
6 Quokka
7 Fuller’s Brewery
8 Henry VIII
9 Elba
10 You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
11 John Milton
12 Dublin
13 Switzerland
14 Detroit Lions
15 Loquat or Japanese medlar
