MASTERMINDS
1. Which TV presenter hosted his annual star-studded Halloween party last week with guests including Shirley Ballas and David Walliams?
2. Which airline has revealed plans for a battery-powered plane?
3. Which ex-footballer suffered a suspected heart attack last Saturday while filming for BT Sport?
4. The editor of which supermarket’s in-house magazine lost his job over a ‘joke’ about killing vegans?
5. Who wrote the book on which BBC 1 thriller Little Drummer Girl is based?
6. Who plays Freddie Mercury in the new biopic of Queen Bohemian Rhapsody? 7. In which county is Westward Ho! 8. What is the liqueur calvados made from?
9. Which American group had the original hit with the song New Kid In Town?
10. Which king were the Gunpowder
Plotters attempting to assassinate? 11. Which is longer, a yard or a metre? 12. Who wrote the crime novel Rather Be The Devil?
13. Where was Napoleon exiled to on his surrender after his failed attempt to retake control of the French empire?
14. What was Winston Churchill’s first parliamentary seat?
15. Which high street department store looks set to close 50 outlets?
16. Who is facing calls to be stripped of his knighthood over claims of racist and sexist behaviour? Claims he denies.
17. In which film did Johnny Depp play gangster Jimmy ‘Whitey’ Bulger?
18. Is the Tropic of Cancer in the northern or Southern Hemisphere?
19. Which Liverpool actress was the star of BBC drama Killing Eve?
20. What was the name of the Beatles’ only Christmas novelty song? 21. What is a male fox known as? 22. Which US civil rights hero was recently featured in an episode of Doctor Who?
23. Which country has seen a surge in applications for passports from UK nationalists ahead of Brexit?
24. What profession did Theresa May’s father hold?
25. In the 1970s which American rock musician became the first to appear on the covers of Time and Newsweek in the same week?
26. Which guitar manufacturer makes the Telecaster?
27. Whose address was famously 1 London?
28. In what year did the Battle of Ypres take place?
29. Who has announced he is quitting Union J after seven years?
30. Which two airlines have just started charging for hand luggage?