17 What is the title of the 1886 adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about a man called David Balfour?
18 Which food and drink items form the title of a Somerset Maugham novel?
19 In Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, to which charitable institution is Jane sent as a child?
20 Who was the author of The Railway Children (1905)?
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1 What type of bird is a garganey?
2 Alphabetically, who is the first of the New Testament apostles?
3 In which country was the French Foreign Legion founded, in 1831?
4 For which play was Arthur Miller awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1949?
5 What is the RAF equivalent of the Royal Navy rank of vice-admiral?
6 What is the English title of the TV series Bron/Broen?
7 In the game of bingo, what is the traditional call for the number 61?
8 Which famous songwriting duo wrote the music and lyrics to the musical Promises, Promises?
9 What was Barry McGuigan’s nickname?
10 The stately home of Wilton House is near which English city?
11 Who was the first player to score a maximum 147 break in World Championship snooker?
12 Bathophobia is a fear of what?
13 Which English county cricket club did Jos Buttler join in 2014?
14 Who said “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on”?
15 In Greek mythology, who was the goddess of the dawn?
16 Hydroponics is the growing of plants without what?
17 Which Roman road ran from London to York via Lincoln?
18 Of what is philology the study?
19 Which Shakespeare play includes the character of Lancelot Gobbo?
20 Who starred in the 2014 film Noah?
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QUIZ 168 – Makers and Collectors
1 A horologist is a maker of what items?
2 What does a phillumenist collect?
3 A cordwainer is a maker of what items?
4 What is the term for a maker of boats or ships?
5 What does a fletcher make?
6 What is the term for someone who collects stamps?
7 What does a deltiologist collect?
8 A velologist is a collector of what items?
9 What does a cartographer create?
10 What is the term for a maker of candles?
11 What does a milliner make?
12 What does a luthier make?
13 A tegestologist is a collector of what items?
14 What is the term for someone who collects coins and banknotes?
15 In what profession does a maker of fitted clothing work?
16 What does an arctophile collect?
17 What is the term for a maker of casks and barrels?
18 What does a galanthophile collect?
19 What does a scripophilist collect?
20 A bibliophile is a collector of what?
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1 What was the first UK top ten single for Jon and Vangelis?
2 In 1953, which statesman won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
3 What is Russia’s second city, lying on the river Neva?
4 In which castle was Henry V born?
5 At the 1984 Olympics, who won the gold medal in the men’s 1500 metres?
6 During which war did the Battle of Inkerman take place?
7 Which surrealist artist’s works often incorporate melting watches and burning giraffes?
8 Of what is rheumatology the study?
9 In which decade of the 20th century was retired tennis player Jimmy Connors born?
10 What is baksheesh?
11 YYZ is the code for which airport?
12 What term describes the use of a word where the pronunciation of the word mimics the sound of what is named?
13 Which archipelago is linked with the Nicobar group?
14 What is the English translation of the French term sang-froid?
15 In the TV series Boomers, which actress played Joyce?
16 What type of animal is Napoleon in George Orwell’s Animal Farm?
17 In the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express, who played Hercule Poirot?
18 What is the name for the variety of green chalcedony that contains spots of red jasper?
19 What is another name for the sharon fruit?
20 Where