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1. Which 2019 number one hit song by singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran featured British rapper Stormzy?

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Take Me Back to London

Shape of You

Castle on the Hill

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2. Which actor starred as Zoe Wanamaker's husband Ben Harper in the BBC TV sitcom My Family?

David Mitchell

Kris Marshall

Hugh Bonneville

Robert Lindsay

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3. What is the most northerly city on the UK mainland?

Inverness

Glasgow

Edinburgh

Aberdeen

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4. What name is given to the speculation mania which ruined many British investors in 1720?

The Great Depression

The South Sea Bubble

The General Crisis

The Tulip Mania

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5. Who was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Joseph Conrad

Ford Maddox Ford

H. G. Wells

Rudyard Kipling

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6. Which 2020 Christopher Nolan sci-fi action thriller film stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh?

Tenet

Inception

Interstellar

The Dark Knight

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7. The video for which UK No 1 single, released in 2012, became the first to achieve one billion views on YouTube?

Diamonds by Rihanna

Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars

Despacito by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee

Gangnam Style by Psy

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8. Issued in 1981, the statement known as the Limehouse Declaration marked the creation of which political party?

New Labour

UK Independence Party

Green Party

The Social Democratic Party

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9. Who was Chelsea Football Club's captain from 2001-2004?

John Terry

Didier Drogba

Marcel Desailly

Frank Lampard

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10. Which game show returned to TV in 1996 with new team captains Alan Coren and Sandi Toksvig and Bob Holness as the chairman?

Shooting Stars

Have I Got News For You

Call My Bluff

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

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11. Which 2021 BBC1 prison drama by Jimmy McGovern starred Sean Bean and Stephen Graham?

The Capture

Time

The Fall

Line of Duty

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12. Which university is the third oldest in the UK, after Oxford and Cambridge?

Durham

St Andrews

Bristol

Edinburgh

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13. Described as 'lost' due to the disappearance of English settlers, a colony was established in 1587 on which North American island?

Roanoke Island

Block Island

Martha's Vineyard

Nantucket

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14. Who wrote the poem that opens with this line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thomas Gray

John Keats

William Wordsworth

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15. Which singer's only UK Top Ten single, (Sitting On) The Dock Of The Bay, was released posthumously in 1968?

Otis Redding

Marvin Gaye

Sam Cooke

James Brown

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16. Which 1980 comedy film starred Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as unemployed friends who are given 125-year prison sentences?

Stir Crazy

Blazing Saddles

The Producers

Young Frankenstein

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17. Which Conservative politician and former candidate for London mayor lost the Richmond Park seat in the 2019 general election?

Zac Goldsmith

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Jeremy Hunt

Boris Johnson

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18. Which English football team first featured Emmanuel Adebayor on their starting line-up?

Manchester United

Arsenal

Chelsea

Liverpool

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19. In Doctor Who, what is the name of the character who created The Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks?

The Creator

Davros

The Master

The Engineer

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20. The islands of Unst, Yell and Fetlar are part of which UK archipelago?

Isle of Man

Shetland

Orkney

Outer Hebrides

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