1 The Hardest Day was an air battle that was fought on August 18, 1940 during which campaign?
2 Which former prime minister died at his London home, 28 Hyde Park Gate, on January 24, 1965?
3 Mount Arafat is a hill located about 12 miles southeast of which sacred city of Saudi Arabia?
4 On February 9, 1964, the Beatles did their first live performance on US TV on which show?
5 The Dead Rabbit, Knappogue Castle, Green Spot and Slane are brands of which distilled spirit?
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6 Briefly MP for Trim, Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, was the father of which duke?
7 The flagship index of the NSE, the Nifty 50 is one of the two main stock indices in which country?
8 Who wrote the 1940 film The Bank Dick using the alias Mahatma Kane Jeeves?
9 Who did the speaker of the poem meet in the opening line of Shelley’s poem Ozymandias?
10 Which 1968 play by Peter Barnes centres on Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, the 14th Earl of Gurney?
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11 The Manor of Northstead is a former medieval estate in which county?
12 Which Duran Duran offshoot band released the 1985 single Election Day?
13 Which Chilean author and diplomat wrote the 1985 novel Ardiente paciencia (“Burning Patience”)?
14 Who was the last British woman to win an individual ice-skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics?
15 Created by Thomas Brock, the pictured statue of Edward, the Black Prince, is in which city?
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Answers
1 Battle of Britain
2 Winston Churchill — exactly 70 years after his father Randolph
3 Mecca
4 The Ed Sullivan Show
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5 Irish whiskey
6 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
7 India
8 WC Fields
9 A “traveller from an antique land”
10 The Ruling Class
11 North Yorkshire
12 Arcadia
13 Antonio Skármeta
14 Jeannette Altwegg — at the 1952 Games in Oslo
15 Leeds