Brain teaser

1 Black piano keys are traditionally made from the wood of which group of trees? 2 Which nut in Afghanistan is known as charmarghz (four brains) due to its shape? 3 Which shrub in the rhododendron group gets its name from the Greek for dry? 4 In 1966 who was the first footballer to be named BBC Sports Personality of the Year? 5 Which political party did Kier Hardy belong to? 6 Who wrote children’s novel The Amber Spyglass? 7 Who wrote the Hunger Games trilogy? 8 Which UK country had the Latin name Cambria? 9 Which city has the Lowry Centre? 10 The Bronte sisters lived in which Yorkshire town? 11 Which Surrey cathedral saw its first bricks laid in the 1930s but was not consecrated until the 1960s? 12 What sport does the Brooklands Museum celebrate? 13 Which record label did Sam Phillips found in Memphis in the early 1950s? 14 Which Evelyn wrote Brideshead Revisited? 15 Vexillology is the term for the study of a) paper or b) flags 16 To which art movement is Salvador Dali traditionally associated? 17 What kind of animal is a Persian Blue? 18 What word can go after salad and before gown? 19 Black, Whooper and Bewick are types of which bird? 20 In which year did Britain go decimal?