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The questions and answers within this quiz were verified and updated in July 2020.

 

Tiger Woods dominated the Major Championships of Golf in the 2000s (2000 to 2009) winning 12, who were the joint second most successful with 3 apiece?
Pádraig Harrington and Phil Mickelson

 

As of 2019 which was the most widely circulated (bought) newspaper in the UK?
The Sun

 

Which comedy duo had a UK hit with 'The Stonk' in 1991?
Hale and Pace

 

George Stubbs was an English painter best remember for painting what subject matter?
Horses

 

What is the bone of the upper arm called?
Humerus

 

European capital whose name derives from the Greek Goddess of wisdom.
Athens

 

Milan in the north of Italy is capital of which region?
Lombardy

 

Which book by Ernest Hemingway opens with the following line - "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."
The Old Man and the Sea

 

What was the nationality of the artist Edvard Munch?
Norwegian

 

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, had they existed or survived would have been in which modern day country?
Iraq