1. Which press secretary was played by Allison Janney in TV’s The West Wing?
2.“Let us sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings” is a quote from which Shakespeare play?
3. In the 1941 movie Suspicion, who gave the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film?
4. Founded by George Smith in 1824, which Speyside whisky distillery uses the slogan: “The single malt that started it all”?
5. Who was Roman emperor when Boudicca, queen of the Iceni, led her revolt?
6. Who wrote the mathematical books Euclid and his Modern Rivals (1879) and The Game of Logic (1887)?
7. The National Gallery owns which Venetian painter’s Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan (1501)?
8. Which German chemist discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789) and cerium (1803)?
9. The House of Bernadotte is the current royal house of which country?
10. I Can’t Get Next to You (1969) and Papa was a Rollin’ Stone (1972) were US No 1s for which Motown group?
11. In a Robert Browning poem, whose “queer long coat from heel to head / Was half of yellow and half of red”?
12. Originally referring to the priesthood, which term describes a member of the highest Hindu caste?
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13. Whose first Punch cartoon, in 1851, showed Lord John Russell assailing Cardinal Wiseman in Lord Jack the Giant Killer?
14. In 1976, who said: “I don’t believe in black majority rule ever in Rhodesia — not in a thousand years”?
15. The Weißwurstäquator is a humorous term describing which supposed cultural boundary?
16. In 1903, which company’s 100,000th grand piano was given as a gift to the White House?
17. Which German-born architect famously said that “less is more” and “God is in the details”?
18. In 2012, which Australian tennis player hit the fastest serve on record at 263km/h (163.4mph)?
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19. In 1991, which Pakistani squash player defeated Jansher Khan to win his record tenth British Open title?
20. Name the pictured Saudi Arabian lighthouse, the world’s tallest.
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Quiz answers: 1.CJ Cregg. 2. Richard II. 3. Joan Fontaine. 4. The Glenlivet. 5. Nero. 6. Lewis Carroll. 7. Giovanni Bellini. 8. Martin Heinrich Klaproth. 9. Sweden. 10. The Temptations. 11. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. 12. Brahman or Brahmin. 13. John Tenniel. 14. Ian Smith, then prime minister of Rhodesia. 15. The boundary separating southern Germany, especially Bavaria, from central Germany. 16. Steinway & Sons. 17. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. 18. Sam Groth. 19. Jahangir Khan. 20. Jeddah Light.