Twenty questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1. King George whiting, blue-eye trevalla and red emperor are types of what?
2. Which Japanese artist painted Princess Takiyasha summons a skeleton spectre to frighten Mitsukuni (c 1844)?
3. Marion Donovan invented the first waterproof type of which disposable item?
4. In 1819, which German chemist isolated pure caffeine for the first time, calling it Kaffebase?
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5. The name of which mountain in Rio de Janeiro is Portuguese for “hunchback”?
6. What type of kitchen utensil is a chinois?
7. In May 2015, Chuck Palahniuk published the first issue of his comic book sequel to which 1996 novel?
8. Which German woman wrote the 2012 novel The End of Days?
9. The 1237 Treaty of York officially defined which border?
10. Which largely instrumental 1972 song is the only British No 1 to feature a mother and her son?
11. Who played the title role in the 1972 Robert Bolt film Lady Caroline Lamb?
12. Who is Europe’s only absolute monarch?
13. Which town in the Altötting district of Upper Bavaria is home to Europe’s longest castle at 1,043m?
14. Which protrusion is also known as the laryngeal prominence?
15. Atlas and Prometheus are the sons of Clymene and which Titan in Greek myth?
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16. Stelvio National Park is the largest in which country?
17. Which Vietnamese city was formerly called Saigon?
18. Which retired Australian fast bowler stars in the new romantic comedy film UNindian?
19. Which French tennis star won the French Open and Wimbledon men’s singles titles in 1925?
20. Name the art museum in the picture.
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Answers
1. Fish
2. Utagawa Kuniyoshi
3. Disposable nappy
4. Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge
5. Corcovado
6. Conical mesh sieve for straining soups, purees, sauces etc
7. Fight Club — the sequel is titled Fight Club 2
8. Jenny Erpenbeck
9. The border between the kingdoms of England and Scotland
10. Mouldy Old Dough by Lieutenant Pigeon — featuring Rob Woodward and his mother Hilda on piano
11. Sarah Miles
12. Pope Francis
13. Burghausen
14. Adam’s apple
15. Iapetus
16. Italy
17. Ho Chi Minh City
18. Brett Lee
19. René Lacoste
20. The Prado or Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid