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1. Who are Boycott, Denis Compton and "Dolly"?
2. What is "cafe au lait"?
3. Which movement of Brahms Third Symphony does Basil try unsuccessfully to listen to? (If you don't know your Brahms but you do know your Italian musical terms, they might help - well, a bit, anyway.)
4. Is the town of Dorchester on the seaside?
5. Polly's sale of two of her own artworks in one day is "as many as van Gogh sold in a lifetime".
6. At the time the first series of "Fawlty Towers" was originally broadcast in 1975, Harold Wilson was British Labour Prime Minister, having been elected with a narrow majority in 1974. How did he end that term of office?
7. The Burma Railway (also known as the "Death Railway") was built by the Japanese during World War II to link Burma with which other country?
8. One of the German words for "car" is "das Auto". Is the gender of this word masculine, feminine or neuter?
9. Which of the following authors achieved literary fame under the name they were given at birth?
10. Yom Kippur War was a surprise attack - by whom and on whom?
11. Where do wildebeeste NOT sweep majestically?
12. What is Benzedrine a preparation of?
13. In which of his films did James Cagney plagiarise Polly's line "You dirty rat"? ;-)
14. Which of these fields of study was the earliest investigated by Freud (who "started about 1880")?
15. From which famous musical is the song "I'm just a girl who can't say no"?
16. In what increments does the speaking clock in the UK give the time?
17. What dance from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" ballet suite does Sybil turn off in irritation?
18. As well as that "ville lumière", Maxim's de Paris has branches in all but which one of the following cities?
19. At the time the second series was broadcast in the late 1970s, was it illegal in England for unmarried couples to occupy the same hotel room?
20. "Prophylactic" has two meanings. One is "condom". What is the other?
21. Paella is a fish dish.
22. When St George killed the dragon, its blood purportedly hit a spot on which nothing has grown since. Which famous English landmark contains this spot?
23. What are green stamps?
24. "The Admirable Crichton" was a play written by whom (before s/he wrote the book on which their subsequent fame rests)?
25. Easy last one for the afficionados: from which episode HAVEN'T I drawn an example in this quiz?
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