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15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter.  The first 3 letters of the names of all 18 first class County Cricket Clubs are contained in the answers – at least one starts a word in each answer.  Make your choice.

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Choose your general knowledge question from the 15 subjects listed below by clicking the question number.  Each answer contains at least one word that starts with the first 3 letters of the name of one of the 18 first class County Cricket Clubs.  The names of all 18 are used in the answers - none is used more than once.

1.

Walter Scott

2.

British actresses

3.

Winston Churchill

4.

Party planning

5.

Ireland

6.

Crystal Palace

7.

1970s pop lyrics

8.

TV sports presenters

9.

Big cats

10.

1970s film scores

11.

Theatre producers

12.

Architecture

13.

EastEnders actresses

14.

Hitchcock films

15.

Contemporary TV satire
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.

Walter Scott

Which 1823 Walter Scott novel concerns a Scottish archer in the service of the French King Louis XI?
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2.

British actresses

Which well known actress is pictured here?

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Winston Churchill

In this 1942 Churchill speech to the Canadian parliament which exact four words follow those you can hear?  (click to play)
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4.

Party planning

Based on experience working for her parents’ company Party Pieces, and pocketing a £400k advance from Penguin, who wrote the 2012 party planning guide Celebrate?
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5.

Ireland

Which is - by population - the smallest of Ireland’s 32 counties?  It borders Northern Ireland and its county town is Carrick-on-Shannon?
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6.

Crystal Palace

Which 1960s number one hit song is played at the start of all Crystal Palace home matches?
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1970s pop lyrics

Whose most celebrated hit song started with the lyrics “At first I was afraid, I was petrified”?
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TV sports presenters

Gabby Logan, the BBC sports presenter, is the daughter of which former Leeds United footballer?
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9.

Big cats

On September 12th 2016 the death was reported of big cat Tango.  Tango had appeared on British TV frequently in the 1990s in relation to which product?
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1970s film scores

Who composed this Oscar-winning song for Barbra Streisand to sing in the film The Way We Were?  He also won an Oscar for Nobody Does It Better in The Spy Who Loved Me.  (click to play)
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Theatre producers

Who is this theatre and film producer?
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12.

Architecture

Which school in Sussex boasts this chapel, a supreme example of gothic revival design?

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EastEnders actresses

Which former EastEnders and Grange Hill actress is now a TV director with various programmes to her credit including the recent BBC drama The A Word?
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14.

Hitchcock films

Which 1946 ‘spy noir’ film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, stars Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains?
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15.

Contemporary TV satire

What’s the name of Frankie Boyle’s satire show first aired on BBC2 in 2017?
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