MASTERMINDS
1. Which Ballymena born actor has announced he is retiring from making action movies?
2. Hope Hicks has replaced Anthony Scaramucci to fill which role in Donald Trump’s government?
3. The UK was hit by the first storm of the season. How has the Met Office named it?
4. Which US film director will return to direct Star Wars Episode IX after directing 2015’s The Force Awakens?
5. Which company has announced that its stores will be renamed ‘Town Squares’ as they believe they are ‘gathering places’?
6. Which former British politician suggested he toyed with the idea of a British football league as a way of bringing the UK together?
7. Which footballer received the higher player rating in the FIFA 18 version of the video game? Cristiano Ronaldo or Leo Messi?
8. Patty Jenkins will return to direct the second instalment of which superhero franchise? 9. What is the largest city in Nigeria? 10. Which Democratic nominee did George W Bush defeat in the 2000 election?
11. Which video game classic features Gordon Freeman at the Black Mesa Research Facility?
12. Champion jockey Arthur Edward Breasley is better known as what?
13. How many stars are on the flag of China?
14. “Load On Guns/Bring Your Friends/It’s Fun To Lose And To 12 Pretend” is the opening line of which Nirvana hit?
15. Who was the Sheffield steelmaker who in 1856, developed a process of extracting carbon from pig iron to create product that was easier to convert to steel?
16. At 645 miles long the river Tagus flows between which 2 countries?
17. What was the second film in the Harry Potter series?
18. The study and tracing of lines of descent (family trees) is known as what?
19. What was the name of Bill Sikes’ dog in Oliver Twist?
20. What is the term for music that is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment?
21. Which colours make up the national flag of India besides saffron and white?
22. Angelo Siciloano, a US body builder who died aged 79 in 1972, was famously better known as who?
23. Described as one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, off which country’s coast would you find the Bell Rock Lighthouse? 24. In the sitcom Dad’s Army, who had the catchphrase “put that light out”? 25. Who led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada’s Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans? 26. Which crime drama was set around a New Jersey-based Italian American mobster starring James Gandolfini 27. In 1938 the world speed record for a steam locomotive was set in England at a speed of 125.88 miles per hour, by which engine? 28. What percentage of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide? a) less than 1% b) 1 to 2% c) more than 2 29. The cocktail Kir Royal consists of which two ingredients? 30. Beef jerky probably originated in South American, but what is jerky?