Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1. Which US actor is the voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa in The Lion King?
2. Which Edmund Spenser epic poem features a monster called the Blatant Beast?
3. In 1905, which Liberal began the longest continuous term of any foreign secretary?
4. Which Italian mathematician wrote Liber Abaci (“Book of the Abacus”) in 1202?
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5. Who were the UK equivalents of Dwight Schrute, Pam Beesly and Jim Halpert?
6. The process of haematopoiesis (blood cell formation) mostly takes place where?
7. In Irish legend, why does a banshee wail?
8. Who held his prison art teacher Phil Danielson hostage for 44 hours in 1999?
9. Which Russian term describes a set of dolls of decreasing size placed inside one another?
10. The Teatr Wielki is the home of which country’s national opera?
11. Founded by the apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus, what is the world’s oldest national church?
12. Dalmatian molly, rummy-nose tetra and cherry barb are types of what?
13. Formed in a 1930 merger, what type of business is McCann Erickson?
14. Swansea City striker Bafétimbi Gomis plays for which country?
15. Name the pictured Canadian author.
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Answers
1. James Earl Jones
2. The Faerie Queene
3. Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon — his tenure ended in 1916
4. Leonardo Pisano or Fibonacci
5. Gareth Keenan, Dawn Tinsley, Tim Canterbury — the British counterparts of the characters in the US version of The Office
6. In the bone marrow
7. To warn people of impending death
8. Charles Bronson, who changed his name to Charles Salvador in 2014
9. Matryoshka doll or babushka doll
10. Poland
11. Armenian Apostolic Church
12. Tropical or aquarium fish
13. Advertising agency
14. France
15. Alice Munro