WE WISH YOU A MERRY QUIZMAS!

Take a break from the television and the family with our Boxing Day brainteaser from ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD

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1 Which food do you associate Melton Mowbray with?

2 East Kent Goldings, Fuggles, Phoenix and Pilgrim are varieties of what?

3 What traditional food is filled with tender beef, potato, swede and onion?

4 What spice fills a Chelsea Bun?

5 Which county produces the majority of cider consumed in the UK?

6 Red Leicester and Shropshire Blue are varieties of what product?

7 Which UK city has the most breweries?

8 What traditional English dessert is said to come from a famous public school?

9 What was invented by physician William Oliver of Bath?

10 Which UK region has the most vineyards?

11 Which museum houses the Rosetta Stone?

12 What’s the name of London’s Shakespearean-style theatre?

13 What is the world’s longest-running literary festival?

14 What is the name of the annual classical music festival at the Royal Albert Hall?

15 What is the UK’s most prestigious literary prize for fiction?

16 Who designed St Paul’s Cathedral?

17 What type of art is the UK’s Henry Moore best known for?

18 Which British architect created The Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, Kent?

19 Where is the Royal Shakespeare Company based?

20 In which UK city did the Museum of Making open in 2021?

21 Which two film actors have played Alfie?

22 Which UK actor played Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series?

23 Who directed The Thursday Murder Club, based on Richard Osman’s bestseller?

24 How many actors have played James Bond in films?

25 Who plays Lord Grantham in Downton Abbey?

26 The film The King’s Speech (2010) tells the story of which British monarch?

27 Which long-running soap opera is set in the fictional village of Ambridge?

28 Who wrote Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral?

29 Which historical drama series follows the reign of Queen Elizabeth II?