1. Who won the 2019 World Snooker Championship?

Ronnie O'Sullivan

Shaun Murphy

Judd Trump

2. Which British PM said: "I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me."

Benjamin Disraeli

Harold Macmillan

Margaret Thatcher

3. What name was given to the area of England where Danish customs prevailed between the 9th and 11th centuries?

Wessex

Danelaw

Mercia

4. Which artist won the 2018 Turner Prize?

Helen Marten

Duncan Campbell

Charlotte Prodger

5. Which Italian astronomer is said to have muttered 'Eppur si muove' after recanting his belief in the Copernican system?

Johannes Kepler

Tycho Brahe

Galileo

6. Who wrote the novel Madame Bovary?

Emile Zola

Gustave Flaubert

Honore de Balzac

7. What name is given to the saclike organ that stores bile produced by the liver?

Appendix

Spleen

Gall bladder

8. What sort of creature is a mudskipper?

A frog

A fish

An insect

9. Of which former Soviet republic is Vilnius the capital?

Estonia

Lithuania

Belarus

10. Which German town is famous for the legend of the Pied Piper?

Hanover

Hildesheim

Hamelin