MASTERMINDS
1. Which British tennis star celebrated the birth of his second daughter this week?
2. What was the name of the huge leak of financial documents that threw light on the world of offshore finance this week?
3. Marlon Brando played the role of fighter Terry Malloy in which 1954 film?
4. What famous building sits on the small tidal island of Bennelong Point?
5. Which capital city, host to a number of EU institutions, has the river Zenne running through it?
6. James Backus was famously the voice of which near-sighted cartoon character?
7. What is the boundary between two different types of air masses known as?
8. Which reservoir is the largest in England in terms of area?
9. What is a traditional gift for a couple celebrating a 15-year marriage anniversary?
10. The composer and songwriter Irving Berlin, was born in which country?
11. The study of the heart is known as what?
12. Carbon dioxide in a solid form is known as what? 13. In which country was IKEA founded? 14. Osiris is the Egyptian god of: a) Water b) Fire c) The Dead.
15. Which is the world’s largest breed of dog: a) English Mastiff b) Newfoundland c) Irish Wolfhound?
16. “You had me at hello” is a famous movie line from which 1996 Tom Cruise film?
17. How old was painter Vincent van Gogh when he died in 1890: a) 27 b) 37 c) 47?
18. The winners of which American sporting competition are awarded the Vince Lombardi Trophy?
19. Which author wrote both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Innocents Abroad?
20. Which series of fortifications spans from Dandong in the east to Lop Lake in the west?
21. Dame Maggie Smith played which character in the Harry Potter film series? 22. What are Awamori, Baijiu and Mezcal? 23. Put the following English cricketers in order for the amount of Test match runs they scored, from most to least: Geoffrey Boycott, Alastair Cook, Kevin Pietersen, Nasser Hussain.
24. Which group had a hit with My Generation in 1965?
25. Losing my Religion was a hit for which band in 1991?
26. ‘How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man’ are the opening lines to which song?
27. Mony Mony was a 1968 single by which American pop rock band?
28. In Game of Thrones, what is the name of Jon Snow’s Direwolf?
29. Which book by Alice Walker begins ‘You better not never tell nobody but God’?
30. Which book by Sylvia Plath begins: ‘It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York’?