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...Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...Who’s missing from this sequence: The Duke of Wellington, George Stephenson, —————, Winston Churchill? What was the only number one single by Iron Maiden? Click here for the answers...
...In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith’s gin, cigarettes and coffee are all which brand? Which Christian church was originally founded in 1865 as the East London Christian Mission?...
...What was officially inaugurated by George VI on May 3 1951? In the celebrated 1995 “Battle of Britpop”, Blur’s “Country House” was released on the same day as which single by Oasis?...
...I want to say Walton, but angry listeners should feel free to tell me how silly I am. He resigned over spy cops. He will be back. Ditto so with Jess Phillips....
...Round on the Links The link was TV channels Pick of the Pops Margaret Court George W Bush The Secret History The Eden Project Dave Angel Fox Rio Bravo The Kiss TLC...
...Round on the Links The link was writers for musical theatre Bart Simpson Kevin Hart Berlin “Coward of the County” Janet Street-Porter Miranda Rice Carl Bernstein Gilbert and George The Ed Sullivan...
...The title character of which George Bernard Shaw play is a female officer in the Salvation Army? Which of the UK’s four national patron saints was one of Jesus’ 12 apostles?...
...In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, what’s the name of the human farmer who the animals overthrow? What two words complete the title of this 2013 album by Jay-Z: “Magna Carta . . . ”?...
...This disc looks to the high watermark of the genre, the coronation of George II in 1727....
...He said he would “let the dust settle” before deciding whether to contest his Esher and Walton seat in Surrey....
...In 1851, the Astronomer Royal George Airy established the position of which line of longitude? The Alhambra Palace is in which Spanish city?...
...Raab, who has represented the Surrey constituency of Esher and Walton since 2010, held on to the seat at the 2019 general election with a slim majority of 2,743....
...Who’s the main female character in George Eliot’s Middlemarch? In the phrase often attributed to Aristotle, “Nature abhors” . . . what?...
...Davey has been targeting safe Tory areas such as Windsor, Wokingham and Esher & Walton that have been dubbed the “blue wall”....
...Round on the Links The link was the first names of TV chefs Heston Nigella Gary Delia Derbyshire Gordon (his first was George) Boulevard Saint-Michel Jamie Lee Curtis Marco Polo Alsace-Lorraine...
...When a 22-year-old Roger Smith showed George Daniels the first pocket watch he had made, the master horologist sent him away to start again. “He said it looked too handmade,” says Smith....
...First up, Dom’s almost consistently used hyphens in the date ranges on his CV, except in the his longest-held job — as MP for Esher & Walton — where he’s used a spaced en dash instead: There’s also some...
...Esher and Walton, the next one along, Dominic Raab’s seat in danger. Then further down into Woking, Guildford, South West, Surrey, places like that. What sort of picture did you pick up down there?...
...Which first name is shared by the actors who played Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones and George in Seinfeld? Which Trojan priestess was fated to speak true prophecies but never be believed?...
...In 2020, with the US struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic and confronting its racial divisions after the murder of George Floyd, McMillon gave a speech about Walmart’s purpose and legacy....
...Which hit single by Elvis Costello was a cover of a song by the country singer George Jones? Click here for the answers...
...What was George Orwell’s second full-length work of non-fiction?...
...Some 30 per cent of Marcus Foundation funds go to Jewish causes, including the Israel Democracy Institute, a think-tank supporting democratic principles that he and George Shultz, former US secretary of...
...Round on the Links The link was botany “Flower of Scotland” Grass snake Joe Root Cherry Blossom Elisabeth Moss (The West Wing and Mad Men) George H W Bush The number of seeds (in the singles) The...
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