1: Whose Welsh Test record of 40 tries did Shane Williams equal in the Six Nations win over Ireland at the weekend?

Mar 15 2008 by Roy Wright, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

2: Who won Britain’s gold medal at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Valencia?

3: Which tennis player was the surprise winner of the Dubai Championship on Sunday?

4: What was the name of the Archbishop of Canterbury executed by rebels of the Peasant’s Revolt in 1381?

5: Which US president gave a long series of “Fireside Chats” as radio broadcasts to the nation?

6: Which three types of sword are used in current Olympic fencing events?

7: NASA scientists believe they have found evidence for a ring around which Saturnian moon?

8: The Battle of Sheriffmuir was a major but inconclusive encounter in which war?

9: Which horse did Robert Thornton ride to victory in this year’s Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham?

10: In which country is the hit TV show Ugly Betty to be remade with a title translating as Invincible Ugly Woman?

11: The northern sky constellation Cepheus is named for a mythical king of which country?

12: Which player has just put out crowd favourite Jimmy White in the final qualifying round of this year’s snooker world championship?

13: In which country is the huge palace of Eszterhaza, home to a festival commemorating the composer Haydn, employed by its prince for many years?

14: From which country does the English word “bungalow” derive?

15: Which returning 1990s TV programme is to be hosted by Ian Wright and Kirsty Gallacher?

16: Which chemical element’s name, meaning light-bearer, connects it to old names for the planet Venus?

17: Which two metals were used to make Sheffield plate, in a process discovered by Thomas Boulsover in around 1742?

18: Which internet giant has been banned from making detailed films of US military bases?

19: Which legendary golfer’s nickname is the Golden Bear?

20: The daatun, obtained from the neem tree, is thought to have been the world’s first toothbrush – used for thousands of years in which country?

21: Which iconic singer-songwriter, now 73, is to make his first world tour for 15 years, starting in Toronto in June?

22: Which now-reforming 1980s pop group was fronted by “Dr Robert”?

23: Which still-active footballer has made more than 600 appearances in Italian Serie A league games?

24: Which Seattle rockers had a string of top 10 UK albums, but only one top 10 UK single, Spin The Black Circle in 1994?

25: Which writer coined the word “chortle” in a famous nonsense poem?

26: In Test cricket, only one England batsman features in the top 10 all-time run-scorers, at ninth with 8,900 – who is he?

27: Welcome To Wherever You Are and Full Moon Dirty Hearts were among which group’s albums?

28: Which screen star’s debut was as a kidnapped undertaker in 1967 film Bonnie And Clyde?

29: Which soul star was most associated with the Love Unlimited Orchestra?

30: The Gunfighter, David And Bathsheba, Captain Horatio Hornblower – which actor?

31: Through which three countries does the 1,700-mile river Euphrates flow?

32: Woburn Abbey and its Safari Park are in which English county?

33: To which country is the nut-bearing cashew tree native?

34: Who wrote the 1890s detective novel Puddn’head Wilson, among the first to feature the use of fingerprints in crimefighting?

35: In which British city was the January 1919 “Battle of George Square”, a major riot branded a “Bolshevist uprising” by the authorities, with 10,000 troops backed by tanks sent to restore order?

36: The Ionian Islands became part of modern Greece in 1864 – having been the possession of which country?

37: Which 16th-17th century dramatist nicknamed The Phoenix Of Spain is estimated to have written 1,800 plays?

38: The world’s first black football international, Andrew Watson, played for which country?

39: The island volcano of Mount Pico is the highest point of which European country?

40: The engraver Martin Droeshout is remembered almost entirely for one of the very few existing portraits of which famous person?

41: What kind of creature is a lammergeyer?

42: Which of these well-known poets was NOT Poet Laureate: Wordsworth, Tennyson, Auden or Betjeman?

43: In August 1939 the He 178 became the world’s first what?

44: What is the popular name of the two species of bird in the genus Pavo?

45: With which three countries does Mexico have a land border?

46: Who was the star of the strange 1989 comedy film How To Get Ahead In Advertising?

47: What is the particular interest of a deltiologist?

48: Businessman Arthur Heineman is remembered for opening the first what, in California in 1925?

49: Which group is the most recent British winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (in 1997)?

50: What is the birth name of leading English model Agyness Deyn?

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