1 A septet is a group of how many musicians?
2 The two most abundant elements in Earth’s atmosphere are oxygen and what other gas?
3 Preserved at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, what is the oldest commissioned warship in the world?
4 Which retriever dog breed is named after a region of Lower Canada that Newfoundland reannexed in 1809?
5 The capital of North Carolina is named after which English explorer beheaded in 1618?
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6 According to the title of a Rembrandt painting, Dr Nicolaes Tulp is teaching a lesson in what subject?
7 The ballerina playing Odile performs a series of 32 fouettés in which Tchaikovsky ballet?
8 Running from Edale to Kirk Yetholm, the first National Trail was named after which system of hills?
9 Which cathedral city is the westernmost city in Wales?
10 In the 1870s, US cartoonist Thomas Nast popularised which animal symbol for the Democratic Party?
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11 Nicknamed “Steel Magnolia”, Dalia Grybauskaité became which Baltic state’s first female president in 2009?
12 The dimethyl derivative of which toxic metal killed the US chemistry professor Karen Wetterhahn in 1997?
13 Replaced by Robin Page in 1994, who was the original main presenter on One Man and His Dog?
14 Who criticised child labour conditions in her poem The Cry of the Children (1843)?
15 The horror fantasy novella Lokis (1869) was one of the final works of which French writer?
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16 Maborosi was the 1995 feature debut of which Palme d’Or-winning Japanese film director?
17 Served by Tolmachevo airport, which Russian city includes Akademgorodok aka “Silicon Taiga”?
18 Nicknamed “the Choirboy”, which English jockey rode Shergar to victory in the 1981 Derby?
19 In 1958, who became the first Briton to win a tennis grand slam without dropping a set all tournament?
20 Which South American country is home to the pictured Lake Pehoé in Torres del Paine National Park?
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Answers
1 Seven
2 Nitrogen
3 HMS Victory
4 Labrador retriever
5 Sir Walter Raleigh — as in Raleigh
6 Anatomy
7 Swan Lake
8 Pennines — the Pennine Way opened in 1965
9 St Davids
10 Donkey
11 Lithuania
12 Mercury. It was absorbed through her latex glove
13 Phil Drabble
14 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
15 Prosper Mérimée
16 Hirokazu Kore-eda. He won the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters in 2018
17 Novosibirsk
18 Walter Swinburn
19 Angela Mortimer. She won the Australian Championships
20 Chile