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."

Harold Macmillan

Margaret Thatcher

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Mercia

Danelaw

Wessex

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?

Tycho Brahe

Galileo

Johannes Kepler

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?

Spleen

Appendix

Gall bladder

8. What sort of creature is a mudskipper?

An insect

A fish

A frog

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

Belarus

Lithuania

Estonia

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

Hamelin

Hildesheim

Hanover