1 The airline Saudia is the flag carrier of which country?
2 John Gillespie Magee’s High Flight is the official poem of which of the UK’s armed forces?
3 A 2023 Sandra Newman novel retells the story of which George Orwell work from Julia’s point of view?
4 What is the name of the world’s largest and oldest high IQ society?
5 The Shrine of Our Lady of Caversham was destroyed in 1538 on the orders of which king?
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6 Which city in the West Midlands has 35 miles of canals, said to be more than Venice?
7 Pope Leo X called which German monk a “wild boar” in the Lord’s vineyard?
8 What was the clock tower that houses Big Ben renamed in 2012’s Diamond Jubilee year?
9 What is the most abundant chemical element in the Earth’s crust?
10 Lord Byron remarked: “I awoke one morning and found myself famous,” shortly after which poem first appeared?
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11 Freddie Jones played the freak-show owner Bytes in which 1980 David Lynch film?
12 Which British architect won the 2023 Pritzker Prize?
13 The Double Portrait of Jakob Meyer zum Hasen and Dorothea Kannengiesser (1516) are which artist’s earliest surviving portraits?
14 What did Mahatma Gandhi call “the greatest force at the disposal of mankind”?
15 “Vanity of vanities; all is vanity” is a statement at the beginning of which Old Testament book?
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16 Which US neurobiologist wrote the 2023 book Determined: Life Without Free Will?
17 Which Ethiopian supermodel started the sustainable fashion brand lemlem in 2007?
18 Which British athlete won the men’s decathlon at both the 1982 and 1986 European championships?
19 Which England and Warwickshire cricketer was the first batsman to score a century on his World Cup debut?
20 The Brixham Harbour attraction pictured above is a replica of which famed ship?
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Answers
1 Saudi Arabia
2 Royal Air Force. It is also the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force
3 Nineteen Eighty-Four. Newman’s novel is titled Julia
4 Mensa, founded in England in 1946
5 Henry VIII
6 Birmingham
7 Martin Luther
8 Elizabeth Tower
9 Oxygen
10 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
11 The Elephant Man
12 David Chipperfield
13 Hans Holbein the Younger
14 Non-violence
15 Ecclesiastes
16 Robert Sapolsky
17 Liya Kebede
18 Daley Thompson
19 Dennis Amiss, who scored 137 against India in 1975
20 Golden Hind