Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1. Lying on the Gulf of Guinea, Lomé is the capital of which country?
2. In 1941, Lev Landau published a theory that explains superfluidity in liquid what?
3. Which recreational activity is central to Frederick Kohner’s 1957 novel Gidget?
4. In 1849, which Scot was appointed as Chicago’s first police detective?
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5. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, grew up in the village of Chapel Row in which county?
6. Jules Munshin played the third and oft-forgotten sailor in which musical film?
7. Scottish botanist Robert Fortune is best known for introducing which plants from China to India?
8. Who composed the 1902 opera Adriana Lecouvreur?
9. Billionaire software engineer Harold Finch created The Machine to predict crime in which TV drama?
10. Robert A Caro’s book The Power Broker is a biography of which New York master builder?
11. Who wrote the Restoration comedy The Man of the Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter?
12. Which sacred scripture opens with the Mul Mantra or Mool Mantar?
13. Which BBC broadcaster commentated on the Boat Race from 1931 to 1980?
14. Which sport was played by Denmark’s 2004 Olympic bronze medallist Finn Tugwell?
15. Name the pictured king.
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Answers
1. Togo
2. Helium
3. Surfing
4. Allan Pinkerton
5. Berkshire
6. On the Town — the other stars being Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra
7. Tea plants
8. Francesco Cilea
9. Person of Interest
10. Robert Moses
11. George Etherege
12. Guru Granth Sahib or Adi Granth — the scripture that Sikhs treat as a living Guru
13. John Snagge
14. Table tennis — Tugwell won bronze paired with Michael Maze in the doubles
15. King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands