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POP ANNIVERSARIES
£25 It’s 15 years since this hip-hop legend became the first rapper to headline Glastonbury.
£50 It’s nearly 20 years since Britney Spears released this “harmful” song that was offered to her after Kylie Minogue turned it down,
£75 Matty Healy is the lead singer of this band whose self-titled debut album was released 10 years ago £100 Sting makes thousands of dollars in royalties from this 1983 song that was later sampled by P Diddy in a 1997 song .
£150 In 1993, I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) reached No1 in 28 countries. It was written by this long-term Meat Loaf collaborator.
THOSE DUSTY OLD KINGS AND QUEENS
£25 A reference to the liveliness and hedonism of his court, this “merry monarch” was restored to the throne in 1660 after the Commonwealth Interregnum.
£50 Reigning from 1553 to 1558, this monarch’s sobriquet came from her attempts to reverse the English Reformation and restore Roman Catholicism to England.
£75 This long-serving Hanoverian monarch was regnant upon the acts of union that created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. £100 He reigned twice between
1461 and 1483 and was the first Yorkist king; he famously defeated the Lancastrians in the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury.
£150 This king reigned from 1485 to 1509 and, upon his coronation, cemented his claim to the throne by marrying Elizabeth of York.
TEAM GB AT TOKYO 2020
£25 At the 2020 Olympics, this cyclist became the first British woman to win a gold medal at three consecutive games. £50 This Leeds-born athlete was Tom Daley’s gold-medal-winning partner in the synchronised 10m platform.
£75 Max Whitlock retained his Olympic title by winning gold on this artistic gymnastics apparatus.
£100 Tom Dean, James Guy, Matt Richards, Duncan Scott and Calum Jarvis made up a gold-medal-winning team in this sport.
£150 Team GB’S final medal count at the 2020 Olympics was 64 medals – of which this many were gold.
FILMS WERE BETTER IN THE NINETIES
£25 Sam and Molly make a right sexy mess at the potter’s lathe before being parted by a murderer in this 1990 supernatural thriller.
£50 In this Tim Burton film about an unusual man taken in by a suburban family, Johnny Depp says fewer than 150 words.
£75 In Misery, she gave an Oscarwinning turn as a terrifying “number one fan”, then later in the decade was “unsinkable” Molly Brown in Titanic. £100 “You can’t handle the truth” that this 1992 courtroom drama stars Tom Cruise as a military lawyer defending two marines accused of murder.
£150 In a 1995 film about detectives hunting a “sinful” serial killer, this director never actually showed us “what’s in the box?”
ANAGRAMS OF ENGLISH CEREMONIAL COUNTIES
£25 Hi cheers.
£50 Rickshaw wire. £75 Charming bus hike. £100 Cheesier litres. £150 Eh horror stinky.
STREAMING TV
£50 Patrick Stewart revisited this role in an eponymous Star Trek series that broke streaming records in 2023. £100 In the third and fourth series of the ever-popular Netflix series
The Crown, this actress played Princess Margaret.
£150 This actor, the younger brother of Macaulay who he starred alongside in Home Alone, plays the overshadowed sibling Roman in Succession.
£200 Gillian Anderson stars as therapist Jean Milburn in Sex Education, the Netflix series about teenagers that attend this fictional school.
£300 In the Game of Thrones spin-off series House of the Dragon, Paddy Considine received plaudits for his star turn as this ailing king.
THE HUMAN BODY
£50 Taken from the Greek for
“closing the eyes” or “squinting”, this is the scientific term for short-sightedness.
£100 In the respiratory system, gas exchange takes place in these tiny sacs in the lungs with a name from Latin meaning “small cavity”.
£150 Originating from the left ventricle of the heart and extending down to the abdomen, this is the largest artery in the human body. £200 A nephrologist is a doctor who specialises in the treatment of these organs, located on the left and right of the retroperitoneal space.
£300 In the endocrine system, this butterfly-shaped gland produces hormones that regulate the body’s metabolic rate.
FASHIONISTAS
£50 Homberg, pillbox, cloche and boater are fashion items that should be worn on this part of the body. £100 In the 1830s, Swedish ballet dancer Marie Taglioni became the first person to wear this garment consisting of a bell-shaped skirt and a tight bodice.
£150 In her early years, this
French fashion icon worked as a seamstress, and in her spare time entertained crowds as a cabaret singer between other acts.
£200 Sometimes known as the “enfant terrible” of the fashion world, this Frenchman is known for his unconventional designs with motifs including corsets, marinières and tin cans.
£300 Named after its Lyon-born inventor, this type of fabric has its design incorporated into the weave rather than printed or dyed on to it.
SUMMER HOLIDAYS
£50 Taking its name from an Aboriginal word meaning “water breaking over rocks”, this beach is a tourist hotspot in Sydney.
£100 Known for its historic neighbourhoods including Alfama and Bairro Alto, this capital city is located on the Tagus estuary.
£150 Palermo is the capital of this, the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean sea and one of the 20 regions of Italy.
£200 In the 17th century, the infamous Barbary pirates – also known as Corsairs – controlled this current capital of Morocco.
£300 North west of Tahiti in French Polynesia is this island paradise; a lagoon and a barrier reef with an alliterative repeating name.
MORE THAN ONE MEANING
£50 It can mean your intellect, your intelligence, your seat of consciousness; it can also mean to watch the kids.
£100 To scrape slightly, or ovines and bovines having a nibble in a field. £150 Pertaining to the body, or a non commissioned army officer.
£200 It’s a conundrum for sure; it can also mean to pierce repeatedly with holes, especially gunshot.
£300 Vital section of a plant, part of a musical note, or to stop the flow of something.