How would you get on in the general knowledge hotseat?

1

Leipzig and Stuttgart are cities in which European country?

2

What’s the first name of the novelist son of the author, Kingsley Amis? His 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’s dissolved in liquid to form a solution is known as the solute. What’s 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’s the name of the Los Angeles baseball team who 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 a 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 family does she play?

12

The word genera used in the taxonomic classification of plants and animals is 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’s the title of the play? 16

The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight and Everybody Hurts are tracks from the album For The People, which topped the UK chart in 1992. The album is 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?