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Who directed the 1986 film Stand By Me?

      18 In the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, who played the title role?

      19 For which 1996 film did Frances McDormand win the Best Actress Oscar?

      20 Who played Huggy Bear in the 2004 film Starsky & Hutch?

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QUIZ 205 – Pot Luck

      1 Through which mountains does the St Gotthard Pass run?

      2 Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard are in which US state?

      3 Whose tenth album X was released in 2007?

      4 Which letter of the Greek alphabet precedes iota?

      5 What land measure is equivalent to 4840 square yards?

      6 What nationality was sociologist Ulrich Beck (b.1944)?

      7 Who created the Mr Men?

      8 What is the name of the Isle of Man’s main airport?

      9 James IV of Scotland was killed at which 1513 battle?

      10 In which European city is Wencelas Square?

      11 In a standard pack of cards, what are the queens pictured holding?

      12 Which actor played the Nightmare on Elm Street character Freddy Krueger?

      13 The ancient city of Palmyra is in which present-day country?

      14 Which Arabian cargo ship is distinguished by its lateen sail?

      15 The Mappa Mundi is housed in which city’s cathedral?

      16 What term is used for members of the Egyptian Orthodox Church?

      17 Richard O’Brien was the original host of which game show, revived in 2017?

      18 Who played Arthur to Colin Morgan’s Merlin in the TV series of that name?

      19 Which is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet?

      20 In Abrahamic religions, what are angelic beings of the second order called?

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QUIZ 206 – Diaries

      1 In which novel does the diary of Marian Halcombe appear?

      2 Which 1953 Marilyn Monroe film is based on a fictional diary by Anita Loos?

      3 Which actor’s diaries formed the basis for the TV film Fantabulosa!?

      4 The first instalment of whose diaries was entitled Prelude to Power 1994-97?

      5 In which 1897 novel does Jonathan Harker’s diary describe his encounters with a vampire?

      6 Which actor and traveller’s diaries give an insider’s view of the Monty Python team?

      7 Who wrote in his diary about the “excruciating dialogue” he had to speak in Star Wars?

      8 Published by her father in 1947, who wrote The Diary of a Young Girl?

      9 Which thriller author wrote three volumes of his A Prison Diary, entitled Hell, Purgatory and Heaven?

      10 Based on her own diaries, who wrote the WWI memoir Testament of Youth?

      11 Which British queen’s journals totalled 122 volumes?

      12 Whose fictional comic diary is loosely based on Pride and Prejudice?

      13 Who commits thoughtcrime by writing “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” in his diary?

      14 Jeff Kinney created which fictional US schoolboy’s diaries?

      15 Whose 1906 Country Diary was a publishing sensation in the late 1970s and early 1980s?

      16 Which 1949 novel was narrated through the journal of Cassandra Mortmain?

      17 Which long-running radio series began in 1948 and featured the journals of a doctor’s wife?

      18 In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, whose diary plays a crucial role?

      19 Which politician’s diaries unlocked the secrets of Baroness Margaret Thatcher’s government?

      20 Which revolutionary documented his youthful travels in The Motorcycle Diaries?

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QUIZ 207 – Pot Luck

      1 How are the musicians Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith as a duo known?

      2 Who won the men’s 800m Olympic gold medal in 2012 and 2016?

      3 Who played Mrs Coulter in the 2007 film The Golden Compass?

      4 The Government Inspector (1836) was written by which Russian author?

      5 Which author lived at Chawton House in Hampshire?

      6 What is the capital of Slovenia?

      7 Which Italian port is the capital of the Apulia region?

      8 Which famous drink is made in Charente, France?

      9 In which 1960s children’s series did the puppet Troy Tempest appear?

      10 Which Roman emperor made Christianity a state religion?

      11 Where in London was the US Embassy located from 1960 to 2018?

      12 Which sea is between Poland and Sweden?

      13 Which Latin term means “from the beginning”?

      14 New Rules was a 2017 single by which artist?

      15 What was Calder Hall the first UK example of?

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