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Question: 1: Sam Fender and Olivia Dean's hit single Rein Me In has broken the record for the most weeks at the top of the charts in the UK. Who previously held the record ?

Answer: Frankie Laine

Question: 2: A female boxer has won Tuvalu's first ever Commonwealth Games medal. How many bouts did she win on her way to winning her medal ?

Answer: Nil

Question: 3: Which one of these famous people was not born with the surname they are known by shown below ?

Answer: Vivien Leigh

Question: 4: Which of these films was not partly set in San Francisco ?

Answer: Fatal Attraction

Question: 5: The man pictured above has sadly died, aged 80. Where did he work for a couple of years after leaving school ?

Answer: Betting shop

Question: 6: Which one of these singers has recently been convicted and fined for failing to insure his Aston Martin, even though it is not on the road ?

Answer: Ed Sheeran

Question: 7: Today is the 100th anniversary of the first British Grand Prix. How many cars finished that race ?

Answer: 3

Question: 8: What name will the man pictured above be known by when he appears on the TV show Gladiators next year ?

Answer: Mauler

Question: 9: An actress who appeared in The Royle Family and Brookside stars in a 2026 sitcom in which Rylan Clarke also appears. In which year is the sitcom set ?

Answer: 2029

Question: 10: Which of these jokes has not previously won the Funniest Joke of the Fringe award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival ?

Answer: The hotel I am staying in has just lost their head chef who was brilliant at cooking eggs. Apparenty he was poached

Question: 11: Which one of these was not in Captain Beaky's band ?

Answer: Hissing Sid

Question: 12: Which Tom starred in the 1970s film Eclipse ?

Answer: Tom Conti

Question: 13: How many of this year's celebrity contestants in Strictly Come Dancing were not born in England ?

Answer: 4

Question: 14: The lady pictured above celebrates her 80th birthday today. Who played her character's husband in a TV series that aired from 1971 to 1977 ?

Answer: Rock Hudson

Question: 15: If you add the number of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse to the number of deadly sins and add the number of Amigos in a 1980s film the total is a number that appears in the title of a musical performed this year at a theatre in which county ?

Answer: Cumbria

Question: 16: 207 years ago today 18 people were killed in the Peterloo Massacre. At a museum in Manchester what commemorative object created in the aftermath of the massacre has recently gone on public display for the first time ?

Answer: Jug

Question: 17: There is one American state whose name has no letters in common with the name of its capital. How many letters are in the name of that state ?

Answer: 11

Question: 18: The lady pictured above, who has just created athletics history in Birmingham, graduated from Cambridge University in which subject ?

Answer: English Literature

Question: 19: In the 1970s the theme tune to which crime drama series reached number one in the UK singles charts ?

Answer: Van der Valk

Question: 20: What is the breed of the dog that won the annual World's Ugliest Dog Contest last week ?

Answer: Pug

Question: 21: What is the name of the Beagle rescue dog owned by the couple pictured above ?

Answer: Mamma Mia

Question: 22: 315 years ago today one of the worst naval disasters in British history took place, resulting in the loss of over 800 lives. The ill-fated expedition was an attempt to attack which city ?

Answer: Quebec

Question: 23: Which former Olympic Champion can Emile Heskey and Joleon Lescott count amongst their team mates ?

Answer: Usain Bolt

Question: 24: The organisers of the annual marathon depicted in the picture above, due to be held next Sunday, have apologised for mistakenly showing a landmark from which country on the finishers' medal ?

Answer: Germany

Question: 25: This month is named after a Roman Emperor. His successor as Emperor was played by which actor in the popular TV series I, Claudius ?

Answer: George Baker

Question: 26: Which of these weapons was not named after a person ?

Answer: Trebuchet

Question: 27: The lady pictured above has sadly died, aged 80. Which of these actresses did not appear with her in a 1989 film ?

Answer: Jane Fonda

Question: 28: Which path has just been named Britain's favourite path of 2026 according to The Ramblers charity ?

Answer: The Strawberry Line

Question: 29: Who joined Ruth, Babs, Louise and Dee Dee in December 1972 ?

Answer: Cherry

Question: 30: Which of these Eastenders actors is an Ambassador of the Notting Hill Carnival ?

Answer: Rudolph Walker

Question: 31: Which chocolate company complained about the original name of a group who had a hit with a cover version of a song that featured in the musical pictured above ?

Answer: Mars