Pub Quiz

1 Which actress was married to Tom Cruise (pictured) between 2006 and 2012?

2 Appointed in 1675, John Flamsteed was the first holder of the title Astronomer Royal. Who was the second?

3 Which Disney character’s name was first used in the 1931 short film The Moose Hunt?

4 Who is the oldest of the four tennis players in their 30s who contested this year’s Australian Open singles finals?

5 Hydrargyrum is an obsolete name for which chemical element?

6 What was the name of the Roman goddess of agriculture?

7 In Othello, what was the name of the title character’s wife?

8 The French heraldic symbol of the fleur-de-lis is a stylised representation of which flower?

9 What has been Britain’s most popular brand of “strike-anywhere” match since the 1930s?

10 Lord Invader, Sir Lancelot and Harry Belafonte were exponents of what sort of music, which originated in Trinidad and Tobago?

11 During the Mesozoic Era, what was the name of the body of water that separated the supercontinents of Gondwana and Laurasia?

12 By what name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s longest and final symphony, No. 41 in C Major, also known?

13 In which two television series did the unreconstructed DCI Gene Hunt appear?