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What was the name of Polly James’ character in the TV series The Liver Birds?

      8 In which film did Pierce Brosnan first appear as James Bond?

      9 Chaos and the Calm is a 2015 album by which singer/songwriter?

      10 Which Greek hero shares his name with the title of a novel by James Joyce?

      11 In which country is James Clavell’s novel Shogun set?

      12 Who was the fourth US president?

      13 Who played Lady Rose in the TV series Downton Abbey?

      14 Who had a 2005 hit with Goodbye My Lover?

      15 On which London thoroughfare is St James’s Palace?

      16 Which crime writer created the character of Adam Dalgliesh?

      17 In the New Testament, James was the brother of which other apostle?

      18 Who was UK Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979?

      19 Which musical instrument is associated with Sir James Galway?

      20 Who played Idi Amin’s personal physician in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland?

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      1 The spicy soup mulligatawny originated in which country?

      2 From whom do all Jews trace their ancestry?

      3 Which clergyman created Thomas the Tank Engine?

      4 Which date in spring is traditionally seen as a day on which to play pranks?

      5 In which fairground game are wooden balls thrown at a dummy?

      6 Who was comic-strip hero Dan Dare’s arch-enemy?

      7 What name is given to a narrow strip of land connecting two land areas?

      8 Which UK Prime Minister was in office at the time of “Black Wednesday”?

      9 Which Tolkien heroine did Liv Tyler play in the Lord of the Rings films?

      10 What is one circuit of a track in a race called?

      11 What term is given to a column made from a single stone?

      12 Who wrote the 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

      13 In the adage, what sort of hands does the devil find work for?

      14 What is the first name of Woody Guthrie’s folk-singer son?

      15 English singer Alfie Boe (b.1973) is from which county?

      16 What type of food is a bloomer?

      17 Indicating an anonymous party in a US court case, what is the surname of “John”?

      18 Which dessert has a French name meaning “froth”?

      19 What word can mean a Turkish commander or a brand of cooker?

      20 Which Christmas song features a “one-horse open sleigh”?

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      1 What does AI stand for?

      2 Which video hosting site was founded in 2005?

      3 Google, Bing and Yahoo are what type of online resource?

      4 Which social networking site doubled the length of posts which users could make in 2017?

      5 Who was the co-founder of Apple, portrayed by Michael Fassbender in a 2015 film?

      6 What do AR and VR stand for?

      7 The three laws of robotics were invented by which sci-fi writer?

      8 In what year was the iPad first released?

      9 Mark Zuckerberg co-founded which social media site?

      10 In what year was the World Wide Web invented?

      11 The “Deep Blue” computer beat the reigning world champion in what game in 1996?

      12 Which test was developed in 1950 to determine a machine’s ability to exhibit behaviour indistinguishable from a human’s?

      13 What does GPS stand for?

      14 Which cryptocurrency and worldwide payment system first came into existence in 2009?

      15 Which machine located near Geneva was built to create and study the Higgs boson?

      16 A pilotless aircraft operated by remote control is given what name?

      17 For what does the acronym WYSIWYG stand in relation to electronic display?

      18 Which computer programming language is named after the mathematician daughter of Lord Byron?

      19 What name for a mechanical person comes from the Czech word for “forced labour”?

      20 What does HTML stand for?

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      1 What is the name of the Scottish National Park region north-east of Loch Lomond?

      2 Who composed the 19th-century piece Air on a G String?

      3 What was the surname of US newspaper tycoon William Randolph (b.1863)?

      4 What term is given to a pocket-watch chain?

      5 What is a dotterel?

      6 What is the firing mechanism in a car’s engine called?

      7 Porgy and Bess is a 1935 opera by which composer?

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