1. Who won the 2019 World Snooker Championship?

Shaun Murphy

Judd Trump

Ronnie O'Sullivan

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

Margaret Thatcher

Harold Macmillan

Benjamin Disraeli

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?

Duncan Campbell

Helen Marten

Charlotte Prodger

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

Tycho Brahe

Johannes Kepler

Galileo

6. Who wrote the novel Madame Bovary?

Honore de Balzac

Emile Zola

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gall bladder

Spleen

Appendix

8. What sort of creature is a mudskipper?

An insect

A frog

A fish

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

Estonia

Belarus

Lithuania

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

Hanover

Hildesheim

Hamelin