Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1. Which family holds the titles of Earl and Duke of Bedford?
2. Equivalent to starch in plants, what is the principal storage form of glucose in animals?
3. Which “Bemusement Park” in Weston-super-Mare is “The UK’s most disappointing new visitor attraction”?
4. Which saint is credited with staging the first nativity scene (presepio) in 1223?
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5. The Clifton Suspension Bridge spans which gorge?
6. Who published his first book of poetry, The North Ship, in 1945?
7. Who plays the title role in the film of the Posy Simmonds work Gemma Bovery?
8. Which 1960s TV programme was popularly known as The Kato Show in Hong Kong?
9. Which sticky, black liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum is also called asphalt?
10. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of what?
11. Which Scotsman (b1961) fronted the pop groups Bronski Beat and the Communards?
12. “Unction” is another name for which religious action?
13. Manon Gropius’ death inspired which Austrian composer to write his 1935 Violin Concerto?
14. Which 17-year-old won the US Open women’s singles title in 1999?
15. Which semiprecious stone is pictured?
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Answers
1. Russell family
2. Glycogen
3. Dismaland — Banksy’s new theme park-style pop-up art exhibition
4. St Francis of Assisi
5. Avon Gorge
6. Philip Larkin
7. Gemma Arterton
8. The Green Hornet — because of its star Bruce Lee
9. Bitumen
10. Long words
11. Jimmy Somerville
12. Anointing
13. Alban Berg — he dedicated it “To the memory of an angel”
14. Serena Williams
15. Amethyst