pUB QUIZ Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MoVIES:

Which classic 1986 film has the tagline ‘One man’s struggle to take it easy’?

2 MUSIC:

Which song opens with the line ‘When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now’?

3 TV & rADIo:

Daniel Thorndike and Miriam Margolyes played which puritanical couple in Blackadder II?

4 SporT:

Who is the only Russian tennis player, male or female, to win a Wimbledon singles title?

5 SCIENCE:

Which chemical element is named after the creator of the original periodic table?

6 poLITICS:

How many former US presidents are still alive?

7 HISTorY:

Which English explorer, writer and courtier, who was executed in 1618, made two expeditions attempting to locate the fabled city of El Dorado?

8 ArT:

Damien Hirst’s 1991 work The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living features which animal preserved in formaldehyde?

9 WorDS:

What is the meaning of the word disembogue? a) Vanish, b) Flow out, c) Steal.

10 BrITAIN:

Which English county contains the location in Britain which is furthest from the sea?

11 THIS YEAr:

Which English singersongwriter, a founder member of post-punk band The Fall, died on January 24?

12 poT LUCK:

The name of which font is derived from the Latin name for Switzerland?