General knowledge quiz

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DJ, Stephanie and Michelle Tanner were children in which classic family drama?

Which Channel 4 TV series features ordinary people going on the run?

Which arts show is presented on television by Fiona Bruce and

Philip Mould?

Which fictional detective lived in the small American fishing village of Cabot Cove in Maine?

Which real-life husband and wife played father and daughter in the 1970s UK sitcom, My Old Man?

Who are the hosts of the

UK series of Long Lost Family?

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In the nursery rhyme, how many magpies are there ‘for a secret never to be told’? Who won the 2019 Oscar for Best Actor? What colour is the blossom of a laburnum tree?

What name did Cheryl Cole and

Liam Payne give to their first child, born in March 2017?

In the conventions of a game of charades, what is being signalled by a tug on the earlobe?

What is the name of Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, which was released in 2019?

Which British king was popularly known as the Merry Monarch?

Of which politician did David Lloyd George say: ‘He would make a drum of out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises’?

Risorgimento was a 19th-century political movement that culminated, in 1861, in the establishment of a kingdom in which country?

The Hilary Mantel novel Wolf Hall dramatises the rise to power of which Tudor politician?

Operation Rolling Thunder was the name given to the sustained US bombing of which country?

Previously known as Southern Rhodesia, which African country officially gained its independence from the UK in 1980?

What is the second event on the second day of a men’s decathlon?

Which former professional British boxer was nicknamed the Dark Destroyer?

On a standard dartboard, which number is diametrically opposite 15? Which two colours, along with a black cap, distinguish the jackets worn by jockeys riding the Queen’s horses?

The British tennis player Laura Robson was born in which country?

What is the nationality of the former manager of Tottenham Hotspur,

Mauricio Pochettino?

What was the name of a sea-themed children’s song which went viral in late 2018?

The Land of Lola and Sex is in the Heel are among the numbers performed in which stage musical, first produced in Chicago in 2012?

Who topped the UK album charts in 2017 with Gang Signs and Prayer?

Das Erste Wiener Gemuseorchester is group of Austrian musicians whose instruments are all made from which natural objects?

The Phil Collins composition You’ll Be In My Heart won an Oscar on the soundtrack of which 1999 animated movie? In Saint-saens’ musical suite

The Carnival of the Animals, which bird is represented by the cello and piano?