PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES: What is the name of the 2009 film spin-off of The Thick Of It, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay?

2 MUSIC: Which bespectacled singer/ songwriter released his debut album, My Aim Is True, in 1977?

3 TV & RADIO: Boss Of Me, by They Might Be Giants, was the theme tune to which US TV show from the 2000s?

4 SPORT: In what year did Greg Rusedski reach the finals of the US Open? 5 GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest landlocked country in the world? 6 ART: The Chandos portrait, which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, is the most famous depiction of which British figure? 7 FOOD & DRINK: Which ground nut provides the primary base of the confectionary marzipan? 8 LITERATURE: What is the name of the second book in Phillip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials? 9 WORDS: A sycophant is known for doing what? a) Curing the ill, b) Being a ‘yes man’, c) Haunting people after they die. 10 IRELAND: What 19th century poet wrote ‘Dark Rosaleen’? 11 LAST YEAR Who became the oldest living person, and first ever centenarian, to have an album in the UK charts in March? 12 POT LUCK: What is the name of the precursor to the modern bicycle, a tall velocipede with a front wheel much larger than the rear?