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QUIZ 73 – General Knowledge

1 Who based his drawings of Winnie-the-Pooh on Growler, his son Graham’s teddy bear?

2 Maidenhead railway bridge features in which 1844 painting by J.M.W. Turner?

3 Which Austrian family moved into 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, in 1938?

4 119 copies of which book by John James Audubon are known to survive?

5 Which children’s TV duo spoke the language Oddle Poddle?

6 Who married Giovanni Sforza, Alfonso of Aragon and, finally, Alfonso d’Este?

7 Thomas Gibson Bowles founded which women’s weekly magazine in 1885?

8 Which Austrian-born biographer (1921–2012) wrote The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered and Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth?

9 Berlioz composed an 1838 opera about which Florentine sculptor and goldsmith?

10 Which French composer wrote the music for the 1964 film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg?

11 Werner Heisenberg won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the creation of ” what?

12 Which Bush frontman is the father of fashion model Daisy Lowe?

13 Quarried in Dorset, which limestone was used to build the Cenotaph in Whitehall?

14 Jane Goodall is considered the world’s foremost expert on which animals?

15 Revelations (1960) is regarded as the modern dance masterpiece of which American choreographer?

16 Who invented the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in the 1943 “Dambusters” raid?

17 Cavity Sam is the patient in which board game?

18 “Fast Eddie” Parker (1931–2001) was a legendary American player of which sport?

19 British swimmer James Guy won which individual title at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships?

20 What is the pictured rodent?


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