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1. Which Twentieth Century U.S. vice president resigned office in disgrace?
2. In 1983, ventriloquist Keith Harris released a single called 'Orville's Song' which reached number 4 in the UK Singles Charts; who wrote the music and lyrics (Hint: he was a household name in entertainment in the 1970s)?
3. Which entrepreneur spent two years on television's Dragons' Den until leaving to present the Channel 4 series The Intern?





4. Who was the first female singer to achieve a UK number one hit with a self-written song?
5. Which chemical element is named after a village in Scotland?
6. What is the middle name of 'Rodney' in television's Only Fools and Horse?
7. Nouakchott is the capital city of which African country?
8. In a famous quote, Vladimir Nabokov described parody as 'a game', but what did he describe as 'a lesson'?
9. Which team did Bobby Charlton join after leaving Manchester United, he was their manager for the 1973–74 season?
10. Which country's flag consists of a Gold lion holding a kastane sword in its right fore paw?
11. The story 'The Missing Millionaire', written by Hal Meredeth for the story paper The Halfpenny Marvel in 1893, was about which fictional character?
12. Which surname is the birthname of singer Tom Jones and also the name of Falkland's War Admiral, Sandy?
13. Which British actor won two Grammy Awards for voicing the US audiobook editions of the Harry Potter books?
14. Queen Victoria found solace in which poem after the death of Prince Albert; she once said that next to the Bible it was her comfort?
15. In which European city is there a Mother Teresa Cathedral located on the boulevard Bill Clinton?
16. The name of which French department in Normandy shares the same letters (in order) with the first 6 letters of a British city?
17. What was English sculptor Charles Robinson Sykes best known for designing?
18. Which Venetian navigator made the first European exploration of coastal North America since the Vikings in the eleventh century?
19. In art, which rubbing technique over uneven surfaces was developed by Max Ernst?
20. To whom can we contribute the quote: 'Hell is other people'?
21. Which range of hills were the setting for the famous 14th-century William Langland poem The Visions of Piers Plowman?
22. Which title, abolished in 1879, was once held by Sir John Herschel, William Gladstone and Sir Isaac Newton?

Answers:

1. Spiro Agnew
2. Bobby Crush
3. Hilary Devey
4. Kate Bush (in 1978 with 'Wuthering Heights')
5. Strontium (it is found in the mineral Strontianite, which was first discovered in a mine near the village of Strontian, in 1790)
6. Charlton (after Charlton Athletic, his mother's favourite football team)
7. Mauritania
8. Satire
9. Preston North End
10. Sri Lanka
11. Sexton Blake
12. Woodward
13. Jim Dale
14. In Memoriam (by British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
15. Pristina
16. Manche
17. The Spirit of Ecstasy mascot used on Rolls-Royce cars (also called 'Emily', 'Silver Lady' or 'Flying Lady')
18. John Cabot
19. Frottage
20. Jean-Paul Sartre
21. The Malvern Hills
22. Master of the Mint

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