50 for fun; Phil Brown's trivia quiz.

Byline: Phil Brown's

1 Who scored the winning goal for Egypt in this year's African Nations Cup final?

2 Which athlete set a world record for the women's 60m hurdles in Karlsruhe at the weekend?

3 In Roman history, the Second Triumvirate consisted of Octavian (Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and...?

4 What is the scientific name of the boa constrictor?

5 Which poet wrote the famous lines "Oh, East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet"?

6 In tennis, who was the only British winner - in a dead rubber - in the Davis Cup defeat to Argentina?

7 Which two Scottish football teams currently play their home games at Fir Park?

8 In Arthurian legend, which knight is Arthur's foster-father?

9 Which actor has this week launched a defamation case over allegations about his on-set behaviour in Kathleen Turner's autobiography?

10 Which very popular ITV show was hosted between 1955 and 1967 by Tommy Trinder, Bruce Forsyth, Don Arrol, Norman Vaughan and Jimmy Tarbuck?

11 Which side thrashed England by 10 wickets on Monday to take a 2-0 lead in the one day international series?

12Which New Testament location has a name meaning, literally, "oil press"?

13In which winter sport is Briton Kristan Bromley the 2008 World Cup champion?

14In which country have scientists discovered the fossil of an exceptionally small flying reptile, a pterosaur with a wingspan of less than a foot?

15Which extremely influential work appeared in London in German in 1848, but not in English until its 1850 translation by Helen MacFarlane?

16Journeys To Glory was the first album from which New Romantic band?

17Which is the highest mountain in Austria?

18In the US and Mexico, what kind of creature is a crissal thrasher?

19In which country is the Neanderthal valley after which the species Homo neanderthalensis is named?

20Which name of a traditional pantomime character originally meant (one of) a troop of devil's horsemen?

21Menaquinone is a member of which group of vitamins?

22Coleridge's poem The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner may have been based on a voyage for which his schoolmaster William Wales had been navigator - who was that voyage's real-life commander?

23Which country's ancient Order of the Elephant was founded in its current form by Christian V in 1693?

24On many warm New World beaches, what is a Sally Lightfoot?

25Which Nobel Prize-winning author memorably described his childhood neighbourhood of Oak Park, Illinois, as having "wide lawns and narrow minds"?

26Which London football club was founded by local employees of the Scottish canning firm Morton's in 1885?

27The prestigious "Tony" awards are so known because it was the nickname of which leading figure in US theatre?

28In the global gem trade, Muzo in Colombia has long been the source of most of the world's finest...?

29Who played the title artist in the 1996 film Surviving Picasso?

30Which actor connects Ruby Gentry, Planet Of The Apes and The Big Country?

31Which RAF base was the home of the "Dambusters" 617 squadron and is now home to the aerobatic team known as the Red Arrows?

32Which actress won an Oscar in a 1944 US remake of a 1940 British chiller starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard?

33Who wrote or co-wrote screenplays for tough-guy films High Plains Drifter, Shaft and The French Connection?

34Which great composer's father was a wheelwright in the Austrian village of Rohrau?

35Charles Stewart Parnell, a key figure in the Parliamentary struggle for Irish Home Rule, first became an MP for which constituency?

36Which small, oil-wealthy monarchy became independent when a British protectorate ended on January 1, 1984?

37The 1904 Olympic Games were held in St Louis - but which other US city had originally been awarded them?

38By what name is the 11th-century leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better known in European history?

39No Parlez was a chart-topping album for whom in 1983?

40Which mathematical symbol's use was first suggested by Anglesey-born mathematician William Jones?

41On which Scottish island did the K Foundation burn pounds 1m in cash (earned from their pop music releases under various names) in 1994?

42Which major city now stands in a place Viking sagas called Agnafit?

43Who had a big hit with Bloodnok's Rock'n'Roll Call/The Ying Tong Song in 1956?

44Kenneth MacAlpin, founder of a longlasting medieval Scottish dynasty, ruled in which century AD?

45The varieties canephora and arabica account for most of the worldwide production of which crop?

46Augusta is the name of a town in many states of the US - but in which one is it the name of the state capital?

47In which year was Muppet-spawning children's TV series Sesame Street first broadcast (two either way)?

48On the Hollywood/Bollywood pattern, which country's burgeoning film industry is often referred to as Nollywood?

49In which country would you find the much-debated drystone Iron Age buildings known as brochs?

50What was the name of the goddess form of Naomie Harris' character in the film Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End?

ANSWERS

1 Mohamed Aboutrika; 2 Susannah Kallur; 3 Mark Antony; 4 Boa constrictor; 5 Rudyard Kipling; 6 Jamie Baker; 7 Motherwell and Gretna; 8 Sir Ector; 9 Nicolas Cage; 10 Sunday Night At The London Palladium; 11 New Zealand; 12 (The garden of) Gethsemane; 13 Skeleton bob; 14 China; 15 The Communist Manifesto; 16 Spandau Ballet; 17 The Grossglockner; 18 A (song)bird; 19 Germany; 20 Harlequin; 21 Vitamin K; 22 Captain James Cook; 23 Denmark's; 24 A type of crab; 25 Ernest Hemingway; 26 Millwall; 27 Antoinette Perry; 28 Emeralds; 29 Anthony Hopkins; 30 Charlton Heston; 31 RAF Scampton; 32 Ingrid Bergman (for Gaslight); 33 Ernest Tidyman; 34 Haydn's; 35 Meath; 36 Brunei; 37 Chicago (moved, controversially, to coincide with St Louis' World Fair); 38 El Cid; 39 Paul Young; 40 Pi; 41 Jura; 42 Stockholm; 43 The Goons; 44 The 9th; 45 Coffee; 46 Maine; 47 In 1969; 48 Nigeria's; 49 Scotland; 50 Calypso.

CAPTION(S):

What hugely powerful character did Naomie Harris play in Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End? See question 50