Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1 Premiered in Vienna in 1801, The Creatures of Prometheus is which composer’s only full-length ballet?
2 Which Channel 4 comedy-drama was set in Summerdown Comprehensive?
3 Located on Kyushu, what is Japan’s largest active volcano?
4 Which bird of the crow family has the Latin name Pica pica?
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5 “It’s a cracker” and “It’s the way I tell ‘em” were catchphrases of which Belfast-born comedian?
6 Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of which two metals?
7 Which English biologist (1825-95) was known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his advocacy of Darwin’s theory of evolution?
8 Which English novelist wrote Crome Yellow (1921) and Eyeless in Gaza (1936)?
9 In Hindu myth, which Vedic god of fire uses his seven tongues to lick up ghee offerings?
10 Which MP for Montgomeryshire was Liberal Party leader from 1945 to 1956?
11 Which Italian directed the neorealist films Miracle in Milan (1951) and Umberto D. (1952)?
12 Which law of refraction of light was first mathematically described in 1621 by a Dutch astronomer and mathematician?
13 Which 2015 Europe’s Strongest Man from Iceland plays Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in Game of Thrones?
14 Which international badminton team event is the women’s equivalent of the Thomas Cup?
15 The pictured Pont Saint-Bénézet bridge is located where?
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Answers
1 Ludwig van Beethoven
2 Teachers
3 Mount Aso
4 Eurasian magpie or common magpie
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5 Frank Carson
6 Silver and gold
7 Thomas Henry Huxley
8 Aldous Huxley
9 Agni
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10 Clement Davies
11 Vittorio De Sica
12 Snell’s law — after Willebrord Snellius
13 Hafthór Júlíus “Thor” Björnsson
14 Uber Cup
15 Avignon