1. Evidence of one of the oldest human beings has been found in which country?
2. Which foreign leader gave a speech to the US Congress this week?
3. What four-letter word for air pollution found in large urban areas was first coined in 1905?
4. Name the film
5. 33 copper miners survived for 69 days underground following a mining accident in which country?
6. Which word describes a branched, decorative ceiling-mounted light fixture?
7. What city, whose name is a familiar sight on the British High Street, is the capital of a Spanish autonomous community?
8. What was the name of the 2012 feelgood French drama about a quadriplegic millionaire who hires a streetwise African to be his carer?
9. What links these two pictures?
10. Who is this?
11. Which traditional English drink, probably introduced from France in the 12th century, has a name derived from the Latin for ‘strong drink’?
12. Which was the only country to compete in all 26 sports at the 2012 London Olympics?
13. Name the artist?
14. With basements extending way underground, which London building was the largest building constructed in the UK in the 20th century?
15. Which Australian was the top-placed teen musician in Heat magazine’s 101 Hottest hunks of 2014?
16. In which animated film do a 10-year-old and her parents enter a magical world where her parents are turned into pigs?
17. Can you name the traditional tune from the extract below:
18. In the Middle Ages, Cornwall had a dragon. Sir Galahad was sent to kill the dragon. This dragon had 3 heads and 3 tails. If one head is chopped off a new one grows, also, if one tail is chopped off two new ones grow. If Sir Galahad chops off two tails, one new head grows. But fortunately, if two heads are chopped off, nothing new grows. Sir Galahed has borrowed Excalibur which with one blow can either remove one head or two heads, or one tail or two tails, but never a combo of a head and a tail in one blow. What is the minimum number of strokes needed by Sir Galahad to chop off all the heads and the tails of the dragon, thereby killing it?
19. What connection links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two connected words : A C D E I I J L N S S U V