5 How is the building at London’s 30 St Mary Axe commonly known?
6 Pontoon, twenty-one and vingt-et-un are alternative names for which card game?
7 What is the official name for an Oscar?
8 Who is the comic-strip alter ego of Peter Parker?
9 Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell were the pen names of which sisters?
10 What plant is also known as the Michaelmas daisy?
11 What name was used by the unspeaking Marx brother whose birth name was Adolph?
12 The Granta is another name for which East Anglian river?
13 What is the Indian term for a vegetable also known as “ladies’ fingers” and “okra”?
14 Which breed of dog is also known as the German shepherd?
15 How were Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor collectively known?
16 In which city is Storkyrkan, officially named Sankt Nicolai kyrka?
17 Which musician’s real name is Vincent Furnier?
18 What was the real name of writer George Orwell?
19 Which American wild cat is also known as a cougar or mountain lion?
20 Which British city has the nickname “Auld Reekie”?
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1 Liverpool and Birkenhead are linked by which tunnel?
2 Which word means both a fencing sword and a thin metal sheet?
3 What was Elvis Presley’s middle name?
4 Who played the title role in the 1970s children’s TV series Catweazle?
5 Chilli was originally native to which country?
6 What name is given to an official with the power to evict people from their houses?
7 Who wrote the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark?
8 The Back to the Future films starred which actor as Marty McFly?
9 How many sheets of paper are there in a ream?
10 Ni is the chemical symbol for which element?
11 Which French president succeeded Jacques Chirac?
12 Which actor starred in the 1955 thriller To Catch A Thief?
13 What is the name of the game that Americans call tic-tac-toe?
14 In which year did Kate Bush have a no.1 hit with Wuthering Heights?
15 What does the letter “O” stand for in the phrase “SWOT analysis”?
16 Sauchiehall Street is in which city?
17 Which spoof soap included the character of Mrs Overall?
18 The remote and uninhabited interior of Australia is given what name?
19 What term is given for the standard score for each golf hole and for the entire course?
20 What type of animal is a Tamworth?
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1 Which American national holiday is celebrated in late November?
2 The Up Helly Aa festival is held in which group of islands?
3 What name is given to the Hindu Festival of Lights?
4 The Eisteddfod festival takes place in which country?
5 What is the Jewish candelabrum traditionally used during Hanukkah?
6 Which Christian feast is celebrated on January 6?
7 ANZAC Day is marked by which two countries?
8 The Day of the Dead festival is celebrated in which country?
9 What religious festival is celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur?
10 St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in which month?
11 Which Chinese Year started in February 2018?
12 In the Christian church, what is the period before Christmas called?
13 Which Scottish celebration takes place on January 25?
14 What is the Shrove Tuesday festival in New Orleans called…?
15 …and what does its name mean in English?
16 What term is given to the seven days before Easter in the Christian church?
17 What name is All Hallows Eve more commonly known as?
18 At what age does a bar mitzvah usually take place?
19 Which Muslim festival marks the end of Ramadan?
20 Which saint’s feast day is celebrated on December 26?
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1 What was the first name of English composer Vaughan Williams?
2 Palaeontology is the study of which objects?
3 Which measurement of distance is the equivalent of 1.61 kilometres?
4 Who was Stan Laurel’s comedy-film partner?
5 Which decade saw the imposition of the three-day week in the UK to conserve fuel supplies?
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