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Let’s get quizzical

COMPILED BY PAUL STEELE

1. From a recipe created by Mark Flanagan, what dish is made up of pastry, milk, cream, eggs, tarragon, cheddar, spinach, salt, pepper and soy or broad beans?

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2. Which male doll was introduced by Mattel in 1961 as a counterpart to his even more famous female companion?

3. Philip II of Spain and James Bond shared which motto?

4. Which three best picture Oscar-winners have four-letter titles?

5. The Final in 1986 was whose farewell concert?

6. Who sailed from Varna to Whitby on the Demeter?

7. Which river carved out the Grand Canyon?

8. Which country won this years Eurovision Song Contest held in Liverpool?

9. Which three teams were relegated from the Premier League in May?

10. In which city is the French Open tennis tournament held?

11. Wiki, as in Wikipedia, meads ‘fast’ in which language?

12. In what year did pupils in the UK sit O-Level exams for the last time?

13. In 2003 which country became only the third, after the US and Russia, to send its own person into space?

14. What English city was once known as Jorvik by the Vikings?

15. In Cockney rhyming slang what does ‘tom’ mean?

16. Which ventriloquist appeared with Orville the Duck?

17. What novel by James Joyce is set on June 16th 1904?

18. What part of a cow’s anatomy has four departments?

19. Where in the UK is the Spinnaker Tower?

20. Which organ of the body does a hepatologist specialise in?

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