All are famous books, but can you work out the authors when alternate letters are removed.

The History Man - M_l_o_m _r_d_u_y
Malcolm Bradbury 

Just William - R_c_m_l _r_m_t_n
Richmal Crompton

The Talented Mr Ripley - P_t_i_i_ H_g_s_i_h
Patricia Highsmith

Finnegans Wake - J_m_s _o_c_
James Joyce

Blott on the Landscape - T_m S_a_p
Tom Sharpe

Christine Baranski played which character in 'The Good Wife' and again in the follow-up series 'The Good Fight'?
Diane Lockhart

What is the stage name of Stuart Leslie Goddard?
Adam Ant

The type of meat most consumed worldwide is what?
Pork

What did the United States adopt as its national anthem in 1931?
The Star Spangled Banner

By what more common name is the Yam known in the UK?
Sweet Potato

Which animated remake of a 1994 film stars voice actors Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor?

The Lion King

Which US actor who once played Johnny Cash appears as the Joker in the 2019 film directed by Todd Phillips?

Joaquin Phoenix

'Chucky' appears in which 2019 remake of a 1988 film with the same title?

Child's Play

In 1997, Pathfinder, NASA's space probe landed on the surface of which planet?
Mars.

The largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, began in July 1942. What was the battle known as?
The Battle of Kursk

Particles consistent with the Higgs boson were discovered in 2012 using which machine, currently (as of 2018) the worlds largest?
Large Hadron Collider

Which national park became Britain’s first in 1951?