1 Which Russian-American novelist’s play The Unconquered was staged on Broadway in 1940?
2 Fronted by David Sylvian, which band had top 10 hits in 1982 with Ghosts and I Second That Emotion?
3 Which creator of TV’s Penny Dreadful won a Tony Award for his Mark Rothko play Red?
4 In the novel Wuthering Heights, who says: “Nelly, I am Heathcliff!”?
5 What does the musical direction lacrimoso mean?
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6 Which Rat Pack member first played the secret agent Matt Helm in The Silencers (1966)?
7 Which Rossini overture features a Ranz des Vaches (call to the cows) played with a cor anglais?
8 Which gallery in St Paul’s Cathedral is located 85m above street level?
9 Binghamton, New York, is known for the spiedie. What type of snack is it?
10 One of the smallest marine mammals, Phocoena phocoena is known as the harbour what?
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11 The TV crime drama Happy Valley is set in which West Yorkshire river valley?
12 Which prime minister of New Zealand has just announced his resignation?
13 Which April 1912 shooting of Russian goldfield workers on strike took its name from a Siberian river?
14 Pyroclastic flows from the erupting Soufrière Hills volcano destroyed which Caribbean island’s capital, Plymouth?
15 Founded in 1966, which university in Uxbridge is named after a Victorian engineer?
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16 Originally called the Thatcher Ferry Bridge, the Bridge of the Americas spans the Pacific entrance to which waterway?
17 Donatello and Michelozzo created the Tomb of Antipope John XXIII (Baldassare Cossa) for which building?
18 Which London club defeated Racing 92 to win the 2016 European Rugby Champions Cup?
19 Which Argentine football team, nicknamed El Rojo, plays Racing Club in the derby the Clásico de Avellaneda?
20 Which Spanish Basque fashion designer (1895-1972) is pictured?
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1 Ayn Rand
2 Japan
3 John Logan
4 Catherine Earnshaw
5 Tearfully or sadly
6 Dean Martin
7 William Tell Overture
8 Golden Gallery
9 A sandwich with marinated cubes of meat (originally restricted to lamb) cooked on a skewer
10 Porpoise
11 Calder Valley
12 John Key
13 Lena Goldfields Massacre
14 Montserrat
15 Brunel University London — named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel
16 Panama Canal
17 Florence Baptistry (adjacent to the Duomo)
18 Saracens
19 Club Atlético Independiente
20 Cristóbal Balenciaga