1 Andy Warhol’s eight-hour, five-minute film Empire (1964) shows footage of which building?
2 Who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989?
3 The common name of Quercus robur, England’s national tree, is the English what?
4 Who is the only English-born king to be given the epithet “the Great”?
5 The Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was a virtuoso on which musical instrument?
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6 The North Yorkshire market town of Skipton is known as “the gateway to the . . .” what?
7 Associated with support for Charles I, which school of poets included Robert Herrick and Richard Lovelace?
8 Labour politician Stafford Cripps served as a Red Cross ambulance driver in which war?
9 Which US film studio introduced the CinemaScope process in 1953?
10 Which Pacific island country is named after a naval captain who was born in Ramsgate, Kent in 1748?
11 Leo Szilard submitted the 1940 manuscript Divergent Chain Reactions in a System Composed of Uranium and . . . what?
12 The 2020 documentary Happy Happy Joy Joy tells the story of which US TV animated show?
13 Beka Lamb is the 1982 debut novel from which Belizean writer?
14 Who coached Torvill and Dean for both the 1984 and 1994 Winter Olympics?
15 Chemically similar to quartz, which amorphous form of silica is pictured?
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Answers
1 Empire State Building
2 Ayatollah Khomeini
3 Oak
4 Alfred the Great — Cnut the Great was born in Denmark
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5 Piano
6 Dales
7 Cavalier poets
8 First World War
9 20th Century-Fox
10 Marshall Islands — named after John Marshall
11 Carbon
12 The Ren & Stimpy Show
13 Zee Edgell
14 Betty Callaway
15 Opal