I’m aware that some of the answers [below] to yesterday’s questions are debatable but have stuck with them because sufficient sources indicate that they are so.

1 What is a leprechaun's profession? [Tailor and Cobbler]

2 Only three countries in the United Nations have names which start with the letter 'F' in English. Name two of them. [France, Finland and Fiji]

3 Which came first – colour [as a feature film] or sound films? [Colour: '1922: Toll of the Sea' as a feature film. The first sound film was 'The Jazz Singer' in 1927.] At the same time as the first of these, one of the most famous Russian films came out about a battleship. What was that film? [Battleship Potyomkin ]

4 For which two films did Marlon Brando win an Oscar? [On the Waterfront <1954> and The Godfather <1972>]

5 Which two US presidents has Anthony Hopkins played in film? [John Quincy Adams in "Amistad" and Richard Nixon in "Nixon"]

6 From which movie: "Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!" [Monty Python and the Holy Grail]

7 Contrary to popular belief, brides do not walk down the aisle to the altar. What do they walk down? [The nave of the church - aisles are along the sides]

8 From which country does the cloth denim, used in jeans, originally come from? Do you know the town it comes from as well? [France - Nimes Denim=de Nimes]

9 What shape is the DNA molecule? [Double helix]

10 Which novel begins with the words, ‘At the beginning of July, during a spell of exceptionally hot weather, towards evening, a certain young man came down on to the street from the little room’? [Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky]

11 Name the original six countries of the European Union . [Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands]

12 What major European event happened on Sunday, May 29th, 2005? [French referendum on the EU constitution]

13 Parnassus was the sacred mountain home of the muses and which Greek god? [Apollo]

14 Who was John Kerry's running mate in the 2004 US Presidential election? [John Edwards]

15 It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him. Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice. [Catch-22, Joseph Heller]

16 In Roman numerals, what is the letter M with a bar over it? [One million]

17 Where did the first traffic lights appear? [Detroit, in 1919]

18 What English military strategy was the Battle of Culloden famous for [to the English, that is]? [Thrusting your sword at the opponent diagonally to your right, rather than at the man immediately facing you, thereby getting behind the other man’s shield]

19 Who was the pop duo who travelled by train to Riga, for the Eurovision song contest? They were expected to win, but because of their bad behaviour, they didn’t win. [Tatu]

20 Who is Bibendum better known as? [The Michelin Man]

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Try the previous quiz as well, on countries. Answers to that quiz are here.