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Which is the only Yorkshire dale to form its own Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty — and not to be part of the Yorkshire Dales national park?

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NIDDERDALE (accept NETHERDALE)

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Which celebrity builder first found fame on the television series ‘Ground Force’ in 1997, and is the subject of a 2011 song by Half Man Half Biscuit?

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Tommy WALSH

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Which family — whose ranks have included a British prime-minister — own Burleigh House?

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the CECIL family

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Peterborough United FC play their home matches at a ground with what (rather mundane) name?

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“LONDON ROAD”

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Who married All Saints’ Natalie Appleton in 2002?

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Liam Paul Paris HOWLETT

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George Du Maurier’s character Svengali is popularly thought to have been inspired by which French harpist — who co-founded the Royal Academy of Music?

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Nicolas-Charles BOCHSA (accept Robert-Nicolas-Charles BOCHSA)

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Which West Yorkshire town features a statue of Ernie Wise — who won a talent-contest there in 1936?

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MORLEY

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Which British motor-vehicle manufacturer described himself as the “hyphen” in the Rolls-Royce name — keeping the business running after Charles Rolls’ death in 1910?

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Claude Goodman JOHNSON

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The works of which British sculptor include a memorial to Edith Cavell, outside the National Portrait Gallery; and a statue of Peter Pan, in Kensington Gardens?

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George James FRAMPTON

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In 1977, which Paul Nicholas song reached Number 6 on the Billboard chart?

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‘HEAVEN ON THE 7TH FLOOR’

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Which west-coast inlet — on the border between England and Scotland — stretches from St Bees’ Head to the Mull of Galloway?

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the SOLWAY firth

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The football-club Queen of the South play their home matches in which town?

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DUMFRIES (accept DÙN PHRIS)

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Which town is paired with Crewe, in the name of an English parliamentary constituency created in 1983?

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NANTWICH

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The Sopwith Camel is regarded as the successor to which previous fighter-aircraft of the First World War?

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the Sopwith PUP

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Once the largest ship in the world, RMS ‘Oceanic’ was wrecked off which remote Shetland island in 1914?

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FOULA

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Which British actor of stage and screen starred in ‘The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp’, and ‘A Matter Of Life And Death’?

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Roger LIVESEY

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In a possible case of nominative determinism, which brothers launched Tizer in 1924?

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Fred and Tom PICKUP

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Which Scottish town is the home of AG Barr — which owns Irn-Bru, Tizer, and Rubicon?

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CUMBERNAULD

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Which controversial Greek shipping-magnate purchased Nottingham Forest FC in 2017?

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Evangelos MARINAKIS

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As of 2024, which manager of Nottingham Forest FC is the only Premier League manager to be born on the island of São Tomé?

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Nuno Herlander Simões ESPÍRITO SANTO (accept NUNO Herlander Simões Espírito Santo)

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Which Aberdeen-born architect designed the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, in Trafalgar Square?

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James GIBBS

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Which 1879 children’s book is regarded as having launched the career of the illustrator Kate Greenaway?

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‘UNDER THE WINDOW: Pictures & Rhymes For Children’

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In 1936, who became the first woman since 1769 to be elected a full member of the Royal Academy?

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Dame Laura KNIGHT (accept Dame Laura JOHNSON)

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In 1967, the first public exhibition of the work of Malcolm McLaren took place at a gallery at 26, Kingly Street, Soho — co-run by which artist and his wife?

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Keith ALBARN

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Which English artist wrote the best-seller ‘The Hare With Amber Eyes’?

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Edmund Arthur Lowndes de WAAL

24
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Which Augustinian priory in Nottinghamshire was the ancestral home of Lord Byron?

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NEWSTEAD abbey

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What title links a 1927 silent film directed by Victor Fleming — for which Emil Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor — and a posthumous semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler, which traces four generations of the Pontifex family?

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“The WAY OF ALL FLESH”

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Who won the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her second novel, ‘Brotherless Night’?

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VV GANESHANANTHAN (accept Sugi GANESHANANTHAN)

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Along with Wigan Casino and the Twisted Wheel in Manchester, which nightclub in Stoke-on-Trent was an epicentre of the Northern Soul scene?

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the GOLDEN TORCH

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Along with Wigan Casino and the Golden Torch in Stoke-on-Trent, which nightclub near Manchester’s Deansgate was an epicentre of the Northern Soul scene?

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the TWISTED WHEEL

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Which château-style hotel in Droitwich earned fame in the 1960s, for its association with the Northern Soul movement?

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Château IMPNEY

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Having the real given-name and surname “Charles Hatcher”, which soul legend died in 2003 of a heart-attack at his home in Nottinghamshire?

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Edwin STARR

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Which actress played Peggy Woolley in ‘The Archers’, but is — as of August, 2024 — still alive, at the age of one-hundred-and-five?

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June Rosalind SPENCER

32
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Which comedy writer created the comedy-drama series ‘Benidorm’?

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Derren Ronald LITTEN

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The actress Nathalie Lunghi is the daughter of Cherie Lunghi and which film-director?

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Roland JOFFÉ

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Which former partner of Robert Lindsay — and cousin of the footballer Gary Birtles — starred in ‘Hollyoaks’, ‘Benidorm’, and ‘Crossroads’, and played Maureen Holdsworth in ‘Coronation Street’?

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Sherrie Lynn HEWSON (accept Sherrie Lynn HUTCHINSON)

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The actress Esme Creed-Miles is the daughter of the actor Charlie Creed-Miles, and which double-Oscar-nominated actress?

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Samantha Jane MORTON

36
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Who are the three hosts of the podcast ‘My Dad Wrote A Porno’?

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Alice Esme LEVINE, Jamie MORTON, and James COOPER

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Which actress played Sarah-Jane Smith in ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘The Sarah-Jane Adventures’?

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Elisabeth Clara Heath-SLADEN

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Which novelist wrote the ‘Confessions Of Georgia Nicholson’ series for teenage girls — the first two being adapted into the film ‘Angus, Thongs, And Perfect Snogging’?

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Louise RENNISON

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Who played Mildred Hubble in the 2017 CBBC series ‘The Worst Witch’?

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Bella RAMSEY (accept Isabella May RAMSEY)

39
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Who created the ‘Worst Witch’ series of children’s books?

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Jill MURPHY

40
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Billie Whitelaw was considered the foremost interpreter of the works of which playwright?

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Samuel Barclay BECKETT

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Based on a 1980 novel by the Booker prize-winner Barry Unsworth — and directed by Basil Dearden’s son, James — which 1988 drama film starred Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, and Helen Mirren?

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‘PASCALI’S ISLAND’

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Which screenwriter wrote several Ealing comedies, and won an Academy Award for ‘The Lavender Hill Mob’?

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Thomas Ernest Bennett CLARKE (accept Tibby CLARKE)

43
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Which director of ‘Frozen’ and ‘Frozen 2’ married Alfred Molina in 2021?

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Jennifer Michelle LEE (accept Jennifer Michelle REBECCHI)

44
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Whom did Millie Bobby Brown marry in 2024?

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JAKE BONGIOVI

45
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Which 1928 novel details a love-affair between Stephen Gordon and Mary Llewellyn?

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‘The WELL OF LONELINESS’, by Radclyffe Hall

46
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Which Corsican-born musician was the original guitarist with the Police?

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Henry PADOVANI (accept Henri PADOVANI)

47
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Bruce Forsyth both spoke and served as a pallbearer at the 1965 funeral of which boxer — the world light-heavyweight champion between 1948 and 1950?

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Freddie MILLS (accept Frederick Percival MILLS)

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Which sportsman and administrator is credited with originating the idea of the FA Cup, and was the winning captain for Wanderers in the competition’s first final in 1872?

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Charles William ALCOCK

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Which musician was born in 1979 in Hexham, Northumberland?

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Pete DOHERTY

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