- What, in several newspaper articles of 1960, was blamed for a decrease in sales of opaque shower curtains? Psycho.
- In a 2024 interview, Rishi Sunak revealed that between 5 p.m. on Sunday and 5 a.m. on Tuesday he avoids what? Eating.
- The maximum permissible width of a cricket bat and the width of a golf hole are exactly the same — what is that width, in inches? It is not a whole number. 4.25 inches.
- Marie Antoinette found her ‘too small, too dark’. But 20,000 people a day still want to see her. Who is she? The Mona Lisa.
- Apart from Greater Manchester, which is the only English county with four ‘e’s in its name? Leicestershire.
- Which actor, who portrayed a fictional US president in a 1997 movie, has a first name and surname which are both the surnames of real US presidents? Harrison Ford. He played the fictional James Marshall in Air Force One. The real presidents are Benjamin Harrison and Gerald Ford.
- 7. From 1983 to 1986 John Hamilton held a particular post in British politics. But his deputy throughout that time was much better known, to the extent that many people mistakenly thought (and indeed still think) that he rather than Hamilton held the post. Who was that deputy? Derek Hatton. Hamilton was leader of Liverpool City Council.
- August and Ernest Brooksbank are numbers 12 and 13. Who is number one? The Duke of Cambridge, in the line of succession to the throne.
- Some 92 per cent of the vehicles, 75 per cent of the airplane engines and 56 per cent of the tanks used by US forces in the second world war were built in which city? Detroit.
- The Bank of England’s £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes portray four people (other than the monarch). Two of these died at 41, while the other two have been played on screen by Timothy Spall. Who are those four people? £5 -Winston Churchill – played by Spall. £10 – Jane Austen – died at 41. £20 – J.M.W. Turner – played by Spall. £50 – Alan Turing – died at 41.
- In 2023, the Doctor Who actor Ncuti Gatwa revealed that he had been told off by the show’s boss, Russell T. Davies, for doing what on set while in costume? Swearing.
- Andy Murray called his company ‘77 Sports Management’, the number referring to which period of time? The number of years between Murray’s win at Wimbledon (2013) and that of the previous men’s singles winner from Britain, Fred Perry (1936).
- David Bowie was pictured reading this magazine on a train in 1990, and again on a visit to the Radio 1 studio in 2002. In Michael Cockerell’s 1993 documentary about Alan Clark, the politician reads aloud from the same magazine. Which one? Viz. Clark was a particular fan of ‘Top Tips’, and reads out: ‘Taxi drivers why not pop into a garage and ask them to fix your indicator lights for you, so that other motorists know where the fuck you’re going?’
- The word ‘supercilious’ is derived from supercilium, Latin for which part of the body? Eyebrow.
- Dale Harper, Laura Jo Watkins, Davina Sheffield, Zoe Sallis, Anna Wallace and Sarah Spencer (the elder sister of Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales) were all 1970s girlfriends of which man? Prince Charles, now Charles III.
