Following on from this introductory piece, here is another “oven-ready quiz round”.

Have a Guess, Part 1 (20 Questions)

Each of these questions has a clue for which there is one obvious answer. These clues include street artist, Icelandic singer, space agency, Scottish queen and Emily Bronte novel. If you can think of one example of each of these you will probably get the right answer. If the questions were phrased as “Name a famous street artist”, “Name an Icelandic singer” or “Name a Scottish queen” they would be more straightforward. The key phrase in each question has been marked in bold. [All of the answers appeared in one or other of these earlier pieces: “You might as well have a guess: 25 answers that are usually right” or “You might as well have a guess, revisited: another 50 answers that are usually right”.]

1 Which online retailer acquired MGM Studios for over 8bn dollars?

2 “If you don’t mask you don’t get” is a 2020 work by which street artist?

3 Peanut butter and cookies is a vegan flavour of ice cream made by which American company?

4 “Army of Me” was the first UK Top 10 hit for which Icelandic singer?

5 Businessman Fred Flynn made 718 flights on which supersonic jet?

6 “Chicago Freestyle” was a hit for which Canadian rapper?

7 Professor Waldman is a character in which Mary Shelley novel?

8 What German sweet company makes Fizzy Farm Animals?

9 Which Danish toy company opened a theme park just outside Windsor in 1996?

10 Aguas Calientes is the nearest to town to which Inca city?

11 The Casket letters were said to have been written by which Scottish queen?

12 Gravity Assist is a podcast by what space agency?

13 Which naval hero was made a Viscount in 1801?

14 “Take a Bow” was a UK #1 in 2008 for which Barbados-born singer?

15 “Merry Muses of Caledonia” was written by which Scottish poet?

16 SP4 7DE is the postcode for which ancient monument?

17 Lexi Viktorova was a Bulgarian character in which radio soap?

18 Gareth Russell’s book The Ship of Dreams is about the sinking of which ship?

19 Anthony Gormley was the 1994 winner of which Arts Prize?

20 Hareton Earnshaw is a character in which Emily Bronte novel?

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