Can you answer questions winner faced?

1 Leipzig and Stuttgart are cities in which European country? 2 What is the first name of the novelist son of the author Kingsley Amis whose books include Money, London Fields and Time’s Arrow? 3 BSL is a method of communication used mainly by people who are deaf or have impaired hearing. What does BSL stand for? 4 Which musical family from Ogden in the American state of Utah had their first UK Top Ten single in 1972 with Crazy Horses? 5 Which cookery writer and former Great British Bake Off judge described her award of a damehood in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2020 as ‘the icing on the cake’? 6 In chemistry, a solid that is dissolved in a liquid to form a solution is known as the solute. What is the corresponding term for the liquid? 7 Which costume designer was nominated for 35 Academy Awards during her film career and in the 1970s designed the uniforms for women members of the US coastguard? 8 What is the name of the Los Angeles baseball team that won the 2020 World Series? 9 The shipping forecast area in the North Sea directly between Tyne and Thames shares its name with an estuary in eastern England. Which estuary? 10 What staple of Italian cooking is a fine maize flour which when it’s cooked in salted water can be served soft like a porridge or set and cut into slices? Its name comes from the Latin for pearl barley. 11 The actress Emma Corrin joined the cast of the fourth series of the television drama The Crown which began in 2020. Which member of the Royal Family does she play? 12 The word genera used in the taxonomic classification of plants and animals is the plural of what word? 13 In 1803 America bought about 828,000 square miles of land including most of the Mississippi Valley from France for just a few cents an acre. The transaction is known by what name? 14 In 2020 which politician was elected to serve a second term as prime minister of New Zealand? 15 The name of the title character in a play by Moliere is sometimes used as a word for a religious hypocrite. What is the title of the play? 16 The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite and Everybody Hurts are tracks from the album Automatic For The People which topped the UK charts in 1992. The album was by which American band? 17 Which German political philosopher and revolutionary married his childhood sweetheart, Jenny von Westphalen, in 1843 after an engagement that lasted seven years?

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