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1.

In 1998 who founded Lastminute.com with Brent Hoberman?

Martha Lane Fox

2.

What’s the name of the small theatre in Covent Garden, once the storage area for vats and hops in a brewery, which was bought by Donald Albery in 1961 and, in part, named in honour of one of his close friends?

Donmar Warehouse

(the close friend was Margot Fonteyn)

3.

Which ex-Labour Minister of Transport was Chairman of the British Rail Board between 1971 and 1976?

Richard Marsh

4.

Which American stage actress played the leading female roles in the Broadway productions of both South Pacific and The Sound of Music?

Mary Martin

5.

Where would you find the mountains of the Twelve Bens?

Connemara

(in Ireland)

6.

Which work of art features Count Almaviva, Susanna and Dr Bartolo?

The Marriage of Figaro

(by Mozart)

7.

In 2010 which drinks company currently sponsored Wrexham Football Club as well as the England and Wales Cricket Board?

Marstons Brewery

8.

Which well known area of a European capital city gets its name from being the hill on which St Denis was put to death?

Montmartre

(Mount of the Martyr)

9.

The name of which sea food derives from the Latin word for inkpot?

Calamari

(squid)

10.

Which 1961 Alain Resnais film has been described thus: “The dream-like nature of this film has fascinated and baffled audiences and critics, some hailing it as a masterpiece, others finding it to be incomprehensible”?

Last Year in Marienbad