SUNDAY CHALLENGE
The novel was first published in 1936. Who wrote it?
Which Polish-born American movie producer once exclaimed, “Let’s have some new clichés”?
Where is Test cricket’s largest playing arena, holding a record 394 000 spectators for the fourth Test between England and India in 1982?
Who were singer Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe better known as after their first hit single, West End Girls, in 1985 shot straight to No 1?
Which Russian painter and leader of the German avant garde school, perhaps best known for his work Kirche in Murnau, is credited with creating the first abstract work of art after he fell in love with one of his own landscapes that was standing on its side?
What was founded by Alonzo Decker and Duncan Black in Baltimore in 1910?
What culinary gimmick, still popular in the US today, was first produced by George Jung in Los Angeles in 1916?
Who was the first prime minister of Eire, who played a key role in the 1916 Easter Uprising and kept Ireland neutral during World War 2?
Which leading Shakespearean actor, known for his portrayal of the role of Hamlet, won his only Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the 1981 movie Arthur, co-starring Dudley Moore?
Which ageing rocker once said, “I’d rather be dead than singing
when I’m 45”?
What key component to the later space race was American physicist and engineer Robert Hutchings Goddard the first to launch in 1926?
In the business world, what is asset stripping?
What part of the anatomy would you refer to as a cupid’s bow?
In which river did John the Baptist baptise Jesus?
The Channel Tunnel running from Dover to Calais was a massive engineering work finally completed in 1994, but which French general was the first to undertake such a scheme, for very different and certainly not commercial reasons, in 1802 which had to be abandoned when his engineer, Albert Mathieu, ran out of funds?
Which American actress and singer once quipped, “I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out”?
Which winner of six French Open titles and five Wimbledons led Sweden to its first Davis Cup success in 1975?
At which internationally renowned resort would you be staying if you were visiting the Pilanesberg Game Reserve?
Which Australian outfit had its first No 1 hit with Need You Tonight (1988), followed by Devil Inside and Suicide Blonde?
Who scored the winning goal and was controversially sent off the field in Brazil’s match against England to get them to the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup in South Korea? Across
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18 Which people dispose of stolen goods (6)
20 To object, is to do what (5)
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23 Which metallic element has the symbol Fe (4) is a an admired bailiff known