1. Who won the 2019 World Snooker Championship?

Ronnie O'Sullivan

Judd Trump

Shaun Murphy

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

Harold Macmillan

Benjamin Disraeli

Margaret Thatcher

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

Danelaw

Wessex

Mercia

4. Which artist won the 2018 Turner Prize?

Charlotte Prodger

Helen Marten

Duncan Campbell

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

Galileo

Johannes Kepler

Tycho Brahe

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?

Gall bladder

Spleen

Appendix

8. What sort of creature is a mudskipper?

A fish

A frog

An insect

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

Lithuania

Estonia

Belarus

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

Hamelin

Hildesheim

Hanover