MASTERMINDS
1. Schoolchildren in England will have to learn which life skill under proposals put forward by the Government this week?
2. Which actress, who plays Princess Margaret in The Crown, stars in the new Mission Impossible film?
3. Which MP challenged, and lost to Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership election of 2016?
4. By proportion of votes, which area of the country was most in favour of leaving the EU?
5. What is the collective noun for a group of chickens?
6. Which designer announced this week she has decided to close down her fashion brand?
7. Which dog is a cross of a Welsh Terrier and an Otter Hound and takes its name from a valley in West Riding of Yorkshire?
8. What is the normal lifespan of an African Bush elephant?
9. What are the clawed feet of an eagle known as? 10. What is a capybara? 11. What is the most common type of dolphin?
12. The term ‘Brexit’ is taken from the name used to describe which other European country’s exit from the euro single currency?
13. What is the off-spring of a donkey and a horse called?
14. Who did Kenneth Clarke describe as a ‘nicer Donald Trump’?
15. How old was William Shakespeare when he died?
16. Who is older; Steven Gerrard or Frank Lampard?
17. How many minutes long is the running time of The Beatles album Revolver?
18. How many miles is it from Nazareth to Bethlehem as the crow flies?
19. How many people voted for Britain to leave the EU?
20. In which year did Disneyland Paris open? 21. Running for 10 series from 2002, which MI5 drama starred Peter Firth? 22. American adult animated sitcom South Park was created by which two writers? 23. Which semi-improvised family sit-com starred Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner? 24. In music, brothers Phil and Don were more commonly known as who? 25. Which female artist had her first hit in 1957 with Walkin’ after Midnight? 26. In the police time-travel drama, Life on Mars, who played the role of Sam Tyler? 27. Location, Location, Location has had which two hosts from the start? 28. Which musician had a UK number one with Cumberland Gap? 29. Sergei Prokofiev famously composed which ballet based on the work by Shakespeare, including the Dance of the Knights? 30. The term ‘Impressionism’ and the Impressionists movement is taken from the title of a piece of work by which French painter?