1. In which competition this week did Colombia pip the USA?
2. Which singer has just trademarked some of her lyrics?
3. What can be correctly used to describe a fraction, a noun and an adjective?
4. What 4-letter word is this?
5. Although it has never been seen from the Earth and was only mapped recently, it charted for a record amount of time (over 10 years). What was it?
6. According to legend, a 9th century girl named Joan spent her life disguised as a man, but the secret was finally revealed when she died giving birth during a procession in Rome. If true, she was the first and only what?
7. If the oriental kind is twelve, then the middle one will be eleven; the lofty one , ten; and the peaceful one, nine. Nine what? ?
8. Apart from the fact it is used in flash lamps, what is strange about the noble gas Xenon?
9. What links these two pictures?
10. Name the film.
11. If Roger is checked and Dennis is striped to what party do they belong?
12. Which small freshwater duck, the male of which is often richly coloured, usually with an iridescent coloured patch on each wing, is also the name of a colour?
13. In which country would you currently find this player?
14. What was the theory expounding that political events are interrelated and that one can trigger off a chain of others developed by a US President to warn of the spread of communism in south-east Asia ?
15. What made its full debut in the 1830s, has over 1,000 pieces, 46 or 47 red and blue strings and seven pedals?
16. In cricket, how is it possible for a bowler to take a genuine hat-trick spanning three different overs?
17. Who is this?
18. The game of frooble has two scoring moves: the booble and the beeble. Each is worth an odd prime number of points, with a booble being worth more than a beeble. If the highest score that can *never* be achieved in a game is 95 points (regardless of how long the game lasts), how many points is each move worth?
19. What connection links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two connected words : A B I L O R S S U
