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QUESTION 1

Which real-life royal turned down an invitation to make a cameo appearance in the 1988 Doctor Who story “Silver Nemesis”?

QUESTION 2

Name the 1992 Kim Newman novel in which Count Dracula marries Queen Victoria.

QUESTION 3

In which series does the Queen dance about on stage at a gig by a punk band called The Smell?

QUESTION 4 PICTURE QUESTION

Name this monarch, as seen in Doctor Who.

QUESTION 5

Which 1968 novel by Keith Roberts takes place in an alternate timeline created by the assassination of Elizabeth I?

QUESTION 6

Who did the Queen memorably encounter as part of the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony?

QUESTION 7

Which Roald Dahl book ends with its young heroine convincing the Queen to help save the day?

QUESTION 8 PICTURE QUESTION

Name this monarch, as seen in Doctor Who.

QUESTION 9

Who wrote the comic Marvel 1602, in which Elizabeth I is killed by a version of Doctor Doom?

QUESTION 10

In which sci-fi TV show did Meghan Markle, now Duchess Of Sussex, play junior FBI agent Amy Jessup?

QUESTION 11

Name the Derek Jarman film in which Elizabeth I is given a vision of an anarchy-riven future Britain.

QUESTION 12 PICTURE QUESTION

Name this monarch, as seen in Doctor Who.

QUESTION 13

What remarkable thing do the Queen and Alfred do in the finale of Pennyworth season one?

QUESTION 14

Which The X-Files episode is named after a phrase George III allegedly wrote in his diary the day America declared independence?

QUESTION 15

Why did Austin Powers meet the Queen in Goldmember?

QUESTION 16 PICTURE QUESTION

Name this monarch, as seen in Doctor Who.

QUESTION 17

The casting for Elizabeth I in the film of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando was unusual… Who played her?

QUESTION 18

In which alternate history novel is a plot to rescue a sickly George VI from the Nazis a key story thread?

QUESTION 19

And who’s restored to the throne by the Nazis in Robert Harris’s alternate history novel Fatherland?

QUESTION 20

Who played the title role in the dystopian 1995 film of Richard III?