1. Who won the 2019 World Snooker Championship?

Judd Trump

Shaun Murphy

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

Mercia

Danelaw

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?

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?

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?

Belarus

Estonia

Lithuania

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

Hildesheim

Hamelin

Hanover