Round 1 - General Knowledge
Q1
Which British Prime Minister has featured on the £5 note since 2016?
Winston Churchill
Q2
What is the main ingredient in falafel?
Chickpeas
Q3
Which UK coin featured the inscription, 'Standing on the Shoulders of Giants' from Isaac Newton stamped around its edge?
Two Pound
Q4
Which 95 year old Australian businessman was married to Jerry Hall from 2016 to 2022?
Rupert Murdoch
Q5
What name is given to an upright support/stand used to hold a canvas, drawing board, or panel at a comfortable working angle, used by artists?
Easel
Q6
What is the impulse-control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist the urge to deliberately start fires?
Pyromania
Q7
In the government ministerial department DEFRA, what do the R and the A stand for?
Rural Affairs
Q8
The 1994 autobiography Long Walk To Freedom was written by whom?
Nelson Mandela
Q9
Also supposedly considered as the most beautiful woman in the world, in Greek mythology, who was the sister of Castor and Pollux?
Helen of Troy
Q10
Apparently very apt, given recent developments, which Labour politician was nicknamed the Prince Of Darkness by Private Eye magazine during the 1990s?
Peter Mandelson