1 What role is played by David Mitchell in the sitcom Upstart Crow?
2 Released in 2003, the first Call of Duty video game centres on which conflict?
3 In November 2017, which TV cook became a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour?
4 Named after the fifth US president, what is the capital city of Liberia?
5 The last judge mentioned in the book of Judges, which Nazirite tore down the Philistine temple of Dagon?
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6 Leonard Vole is tried for the murder of Emily French in which Agatha Christie play?
7 A 1974 stay at the Stanley hotel in Estes Park, Colorado inspired Stephen King to write which novel?
8 Which French king’s navy was annihilated by the British at the 1340 Battle of Sluys?
9 The 1972 blaxploitation film Hit Man has the same source novel as which Michael Caine movie?
10 Under Ben Bulben, named after a rock formation in the Dartry Mountains, is a poem by which Irish Nobel laureate?
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11 Launched by Nasa in 1999, which space observatory is named after an Indian-American astrophysicist?
12 Born at Le Havre in 1877, which of les fauves painted Homage to Mozart and Regatta at Cowes?
13 What was the main occupation of Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976)?
14 Which US golfer won the 1997 Masters by a record-breaking 12 strokes?
15 Which suffragette is pictured?
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Answers
1 Will Shakespeare
2 Second World War
3 Delia Smith
4 Monrovia — named after James Monroe
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5 Samson
6 Witness for the Prosecution
7 The Shining
8 Philip VI
9 Get Carter — based on the Ted Lewis novel Jack’s Return Home
10 WB Yeats
11 Chandra X-ray Observatory — named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
12 Raoul Dufy
13 Archaeologist
14 Tiger Woods
15 Emmeline Pankhurst