A Tough Twenty
1 Who won a seventh world snooker title in 1994?
2 Which TV character has the middle names Wickham Gascone Berresford?
3 Podobromhidrosis is the technical term for what?
4 Which Japanese company has a name that translates into English as, leave luck to heaven?
5 What does a fluviometer measure?
6 In 1885 what was transported to the USA in 350 individual pieces packed in 214 crates aboard a frigate called the Isere?
7 In an alphabetical list what is the last book of the Bible?
8 What is the name of the Greek counterpart of Diana, goddess of hunting?
9 Which opera was composed by Verdi to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal?
10 What is the first name of the film character of Mrs Doubtfire?
11 Which was the first programme to be screened on BBC 2?
12 Helen Thornton was the model for which famed figurine first seen in 1911?
13 What is the first name of Officer Dibble in Top Cat?
14 What would one normally raise using the frontalis muscle?
15 In 2001 who became the first foreign footballer to play in an FA Cup final for two different clubs?
16 What connects Aimless, Feckless, Pointless and Graceless?
17 What was discovered by Robert Ballard in 1985?
18 Which novel was narrated by Nick Carraway?
19 Who was the longest holder of the title of Poet Laureate?
20 In which European country did the leek
originate?
Answers
1 Alison Fisher
2 John Steed in The Avengers
3 Smelly feet
4 Nintendo
5 River levels
6 The Statue of Liberty
7 Zephaniah
8 Artemis
9 Aida
10 Euphegenia
11 Play School
12 Spirit of Ecstasy on Rolls Royce cars
13 Charlie
14 Eyebrows
15 Dieter Hamman for Newcastle and Liverpool
16 All the names of cows in the novel Cold Comfort Farm
17 The wreck of the Titanic
18 The Great Gatsby
19 Alfred Lord Tennyson, holding the title for 42 years
20 Switzerland