1 Dolores Claiborne (1992) and Rose Madder (1995) are novels by which US horror author?
2 Enacted by Dusan the Mighty in 1349, Dusan’s Code was the constitution of which empire?
3 Which genus of Australian tree includes the Tasmanian blue gum and grey ironbark species?
4 Which of the Queen’s children lives at Bagshot Park in Surrey?
5 In the 1960 film Spartacus, the role of Crassus was played by which British actor?
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6 A theodolite is a surveying instrument used for measuring what?
7 The 1933 Nobel prize in physics was jointly awarded to Edwin Schrödinger and which English physicist?
8 The Twin Cities area of Minnesota is made up of which two cities?
9 The Bedlington terrier is named after a mining town in which county?
10 Which London hospital has the website address www.gosh.nhs.uk?
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11 Known for their Jack Freak Pictures series, which duo won the 1986 Turner prize?
12 Which Japanese word is used to describe “modern-day hermits” who have withdrawn from society?
13 Which infamous Australian bushranger was captured at Glenrowan on June 28, 1880?
14 “Mozart!” was the reputed last word of which Austrian composer. who died in 1911?
15 Which island in the Caribbean Netherlands is known affectionately to the locals as Statia?
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16 Created by Jed Mercurio, which TV medical drama was set at the fictional South Central Infirmary?
17 Whose dramatic monologue, Not I (1972), features a moving mouth with the rest of the stage in darkness?
18 Which team has won the ICC World Twenty20 on two out of the six times it has been held?
19 Which Dutch swimmer retained his 100m freestyle title at the 2004 Athens Olympics?
20 Which monarch is pictured?
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Answers
1 Stephen King
2 Serbian Empire
3 Eucalyptus
4 Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
5 Laurence Olivier
6 Horizontal and vertical angles
7 Paul Dirac — for the “discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”
8 Minneapolis and St Paul
9 Northumberland
10 Great Ormond Street Hospital
11 Gilbert & George
12 Hikikomori
13 Ned Kelly
14 Gustav Mahler
15 Sint Eustatius
16 Bodies
17 Samuel Beckett
18 West Indies
19 Pieter van den Hoogenband
20 Edward VIII