1 Mariah’s World (2016-17) is a reality show about which American diva?
2 What are the tallest and heaviest birds in the world?
3 DJ Tony Blackburn opened which radio station on September 30, 1967 with Daily Disc Delivery?
4 In 1989, who became the Royal Ballet’s youngest-ever principal ballerina?
5 First published in 1955, which British reference book was the brainchild of the industrialist Hugh Beaver?
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6 Which Welsh actor has been Oscar-nominated twice for playing US presidents?
7 Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin (1925) sought to transform which capital city’s centre?
8 What is the subject of Chris Rae’s 2008 book The Septic’s Companion?
9 In the TV series Succession, Tom described which disease as the “MySpace of STDs”?
10 Which sculptor’s Winged Figure (1963) is mounted on the east side of John Lewis in Oxford Street?
11 Which tsar of Russia sold Alaska to the USA?
12 Shostakovich’s unfinished opera Katyusha Maslova is based on which 1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy?
13 Which pope (r 366-384) (who was opposed by the antipope Ursinus) commissioned the Vulgate Bible?
14 Which England fast bowler was the first male winner of Strictly Come Dancing?
15 Which English fashion photographer is pictured?
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1 Mariah Carey
2 Ostriches
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3 BBC Radio 1
4 Darcey Bussell, she was aged 20
5 The Guinness Book of Records, now known as Guinness World Records
6 Anthony Hopkins, for the title role in Nixon and for playing John Quincy Adams in Amistad
7 Paris
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8 British slang
9 Syphilis
10 Barbara Hepworth
11 Alexander II, in 1867
12 Resurrection
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13 Damasus I
14 Darren Gough
15 David Bailey