1 Which US record label introduced the 45 rpm single format in 1949?
2 Detective Sarah Lund is the heroine of which Danish TV drama?
3 Which Tel Aviv-born photographer is known for his Yangtze — The Long River series and the project Dust?
4 Who sculpted the colossal seated figure of Abraham Lincoln (1920) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC?
5 Which French actress won an Oscar for her role in The English Patient (1996)?
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6 Madame de Montespan was a maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress) of which French king?
7 “Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die” — lines from which 1854 poem?
8 Who wrote the 1958 children’s novel Tom’s Midnight Garden?
9 What is the name of Prospero’s daughter in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest?
10 Which element was originally called “dephlogisticated air” by Joseph Priestley?
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11 In 1910, Umetaro Suzuki isolated a compound from rice bran, later refined as which vitamin?
12 Which calculating device was invented by William Oughtred in about 1622?
13 The American and its smaller cousin, the Chinese, are the two living species of which reptile?
14 Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Mount Everest in which year?
15 The name “poor man’s saffron” is used for which plant (aka Calendula officinalis) with edible golden-orange petals?
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16 Which future prime minister rode in the cavalry charge of the 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman?
17 Which “Lourdes of Wales” claims to be the oldest continual pilgrimage site in Great Britain?
18 Which horse famously defeated Bustino in the 1975 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes?
19 What nationality was François Faber, the first foreigner to win the Tour de France (in 1909)?
20 Who is the pictured English model?
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Answers
1 RCA Victor
2 The Killing
3 Nadav Kander
4 Daniel Chester French
5 Juliette Binoche
6 Louis XIV
7 The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
8 Philippa Pearce
9 Miranda
10 Oxygen
11 Vitamin B1 or thiamine
12 Slide rule
13 Alligator
14 1953
15 Pot marigold or English marigold
16 Winston Churchill
17 St Winefride’s Well, Holywell, Flintshire
18 Grundy
19 Luxembourgian
20 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley