1 Since 1976 the English band Fairport Convention has hosted an annual festival of folk and rock music outside of which Oxfordshire village? The name of the village is incorporated into the name of the festival.
2 Named after Baron Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire, who discovered the plant in what is now Tanzania in 1892, the genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants, Saintpaulia, is more commonly known by what name?
3 The 1993 European Grand Prix was the first and to date only Formula One race to be held at which motorsport circuit in Leicestershire?
4 Originally coined during his earlier struggles in South Africa for Indian rights, what term for nonviolent resistance was used by Mahatma Gandha during the Indian independence movement against British rule in India?
5 Pictured above. The original lost and known today only through numerous Roman copies, the Diskobolus or discus thrower was a work by which Athenian sculptor?
6 Recorded in the wake of his career reviving 1968 Comeback Special, what was the title of Elvis Presley's seventeenth and final number one single in the United States?
7 Running weekly throughout the year, except for a summer break, what is the name of the Radio 4 discussion series, presented by Melvyn Bragg since October 1998? Each programme covers a specific historical, philosophical, religious, cultural or scientific topic and features contributions from two or three academic experts on the subject.
8 In 1965 fifty eight years after Florence Nightingale became the first, which Nobel Prize winning British chemist became the second woman to be admitted into the Order of Merit?
9 The lingerie retailer Agent Provocateur was co-founded in 1994 by Joseph Corré, the son of which fashion designer?
10 Which composers Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor is known as the
'Farewell' Symphony? During the finale of the symphony, the musicians
cease playing one by one and leave the stage until only the two
principal violinists remain at the close.
11 Pictured above. Maman, the familiar French word for Mother, is a sculpture of a giant spider by which French artist? Commissioned for The Unilever Series (2000), in the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern, a further six castings were made for museums around the world.
12 The Tydings–McDuffie Act of 1934 was a United States federal law that led to the independence of which country in 1946?
13 What was the name of the first actress to win the Oscar for Best Actress in consecutive years? She did so for her roles in The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth, released in 1936 and 1937 respectively.
14 Olisipo was the Roman name for which modern day European capital city?
15 Sharing its name with the most southern state of the Malaysian peninsular, what is the name of the strait that separates Singapore from the mainland?
16 Which acid was first isolated from apple juice by the chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1785? Although occurring naturally in all fruits and many vegetables its name is derived from the Latin for apple.
17 The Jupiler Pro League is the top football league competition in which European country?
18 Upon gaining indepence in 1947 which city was chosen as the capital of Pakistan, a status it held until 1958?
19 What is the name of the rich pastry made from layers of filo pastry, sandwiched with a filling of chopped nuts and honey or syrup?
20 At the Australian Open in December 1977, which British male tennis player became the first to contest the final of a Grand Slam singles tournament since Bunny Austin at Wimbledon in 1938? He eventually lost in five sets to the American Vitas Gerulaitis.
Answers:
1 Cropredy
2 African Violet
3 Donington Park
4 Satyagraha
5 Myron (of Eleutherae)
6 Suspicious Minds
7 In Our Time
8 Dorothy Hodgkin
9 Vivienne Westwood
10 Joseph Haydn
11 Louise Bourgeois
12 Philippines
13 Luise Rainer
14 Lisbon
15 Johor Strait
16 Malic acid
17 Belgium
18 Karachi
19 Baklava
20 John Lloyd
