A Tricky Twenty

1 Where can the author’s of The Raven, The Communist Manifesto, The War of the Worlds and The Picture of Dorian Gray be seen together?

2 On a glove what F is the name given to the spaces between the fingers?

3 We Have All the Time In The World is the epitaph on the gravestone of whose wife?

4 Who wrote several novels under the nom de plume of Jebediah Cleisbotham?

5 What is ornithopily?

6 Which British artist recorded the greatest hits album Shaking the Tree?

7 Who voiced King Mustafa in The Lion King?

8 How is John Harmon otherwise known in the title of a Dickens novel?

9 What are known as teeter totters in the USA?

10 What has one joined if said to have, “married Mistress Roper”?

11 Which 80s pop band was founded by brothers Mark and Ali Score?

12 What connects Honky Tonk Woman, Guernica, The Blue Angel and Shergar?

13 In the 1970s the father won a Best Actor Oscar and in the 1990s his daughter won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Who are they?

14 Irma Gobb is the girlfriend of which comedy character?

15 The Jewish festival of Purim celebrates the story of which woman from the Bible?

16 What six letter word beginning with C becomes opposite in meaning if the C is removed?

17 Who is the only person to be depicted on a postage stamp in India whilst still living?

18 Which is the only European country where bisons are found in the wild?

19 Which song connects the Barber of Seville, the Lord of the Flies and an Italian scientist known as the Father of Modern Astronomy?

20 Chateau Snavely was a US adaptation of which British TV come

Answers

1 The men in question Edgar Allan Poe, Karl Marx, HG Wells and Oscar Wilde are all depicted on the Sergeant Peppers album cover

2 Forchette

3 James Bond

4 Sir Walter Scott

5 Pollination of flowers by birds

6 Peter Gabriel

7 James Earl Jones

8 Our Mutual Friend

9 See-saw

10 The Royal Marines

11 A Flock of Seagulls

12 Honky Tonk Woman recorded by the Rolling Stones, Guernica painted by Picasso, The Blue Angel a film starring Marlene Dietrich and Shergar was owned by the Aga Khan. Each of these people are mentioned in the lyrics of the song Where Do You Go To My Lovely

13 Jon Voight who won an Oscar for Coming Home and Angelina Jolie who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Girl Interrupted

14 Mr Bean

15 Esther

16 Covert becoming overt

17 Mother Teresa

18 Poland

19 The Barber of Seville is called Figaro, the Lord of the Flies is Beelzebub, and the Italian scientist Galileo all feature in the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody

20 Fawlty Towers