MASTERMINDS
1. Chinese takeaway meals should carry health warnings because they are often high in what, a campaign group said this week?
2. Which items will now be used by the Office for National Statistics instead of pork pies and lager sold in nightclubs to help calculate the cost of living in the UK?
3. Demand for what new discount card crashed the website on the first day of nationwide sales this week?
4. Which country’s economy will grow at a slower pace than any other major advanced or emerging nation this year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development?
5. Who claimed a Winter Paralympic silver medal in the women’s visually impaired super combined event this week?
6. Who has apologised after a video emerged of him spitting towards a car from his vehicle?
7. Which artist had 2007 hits with Grace Kelly and Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)?
8. Who played Mark Watney in the 2015 Ridley Scott film The Martian?
9. Which ‘C’ is a type of cone-bearing seed plant in tree or shrub form?
10. In 1911 Marie Curie became the first woman to win which award?
11. What is the name of the pub run by Harry Fenton in Peaky Blinders?
12. Which ‘L’ is the type of acid produced as a waste product during anaerobic respiration?
13. Heather Stanning is a famous name in which British Olympic sport?
14. True or false: Snakes don’t have eyelids.
15. Which Adele track begins: ‘There’s a fire, starting in my heart’?
16. Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun comprise which American musical group?
17. Earlier this year, Cédric Bakambu left Spanish side Villareal to join which club in a £65m deal?
18. What was the name of the Sutton United goalkeeping coach fined for eating a pie during his side’s game with Arsenal?
19. Which club won the 2017 UEFA Super Cup?
20. Ken Dodd had the highest selling single of 1965 with which song?
21. Eddie Mars is the casino owner in which Raymond Chandler novel?
22. Dorothea Brooke is a major character in which book by George Eliot?
23. Which club won the Croatian First League for the first time in 2016-17?
24. Roy Chipolina has captained which international football team?
25. Which eponymous Jane Austen novel has amongst its characters George Knightly and Jane Fairfax?
26. Which book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family and the town of Macondo?
27. Which Argentinian club play their home games at La Bombonera?
28. Watford coach Javi Gracia managed which club before arriving at Vicarage Road?
29. Which book by J D Salinger tells the story of Holden Caulfield?
30. Colonel Cathcart and General Dreedle are characters from which Joseph Heller novel?
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