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Questions:

 

1) Which common pub name celebrates the end of the Wars of the Roses when Henry Tudor united the red rose of Lancaster with the white rose of York through marriage?

 

2) Which popular author writes the Cormoran Strike series of novels?

 

3) Which NBA basketball star headlines the 1996 animated film Space Jam?

 

4) The song Macarena by Los Del Rio is written in a mix of English and which other language?

 

5) Which monarch did Queen Elizabeth II surpass as Britain's longest reigning monarch?

 

5) The term 'Yom Tov' refers to festival dates in which major religion?

 

6) Which 'B' is a fictional Scottish village which is said to only appear one day in every 100 years?

 

7) New Yorker Nancy Shevell married which Beatle in October 2011?

 

8) The Whopper sandwich is a signature item on the menu of which fast food chain?

 

9) Which English football club play their home games at Ewood Park?

 

10) Which order of architecture shares its name with somebody who comes from the central Italian region of Tuscany?

 

Answers:

1) Which common pub name celebrates the end of the Wars of the Roses when Henry Tudor united the red rose of Lancaster with the white rose of York through marriage?

Rose & Crown

 

2) Which popular author writes the Cormoran Strike series of novels?

Robert Galbraith

 

3) Which NBA basketball star headlines the 1996 animated film Space Jam?

Michael Jordan

 

4) The song Macarena by Los Del Rio is written in a mix of English and which other language?

Spanish

 

5) Which monarch did Queen Elizabeth II surpass as Britain's longest reigning monarch?

Victoria I

 

5) The term 'Yom Tov' refers to festival dates in which major religion?

Jewish

 

6) Which 'B' is a fictional Scottish village which is said to only appear one day in every 100 years?

Brigadoon

 

7) New Yorker Nancy Shevell married which Beatle in October 2011?

Paul McCartney

 

8) The Whopper sandwich is a signature item on the menu of which fast food chain?

Burger King

 

9) Which English football club play their home games at Ewood Park?

Blackburn Rovers

 

10) Which order of architecture shares its name with somebody who comes from the central Italian region of Tuscany?

Tuscan