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Quiz of the year 2016: Round 5

Simon O'Hagan
Friday 16 December 2016 17:05 GMT
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What are these guys collectively known as?
What are these guys collectively known as? (Getty)

ROUND 5

51. The Gold Coast in Australia in 2018, Durban in South Africa in 2022. What?

52. Fans of Doctor Who are known as what?

53. In 1987 who became the first black woman to have a seat in the House of Commons?

54. The Moon Under Water – according to the title of an essay he published in 1946 – is whose idea of the ideal pub?

55. The regulatory body for British printed newspapers and magazines that closed in 2014 was called what?

56. Which two post-Second World War UK prime ministers were born in the same year?

57. Which rock legend – born 1940, died 1993 – said that “writing about music was like dancing about architecture”?

58. Founded in San Francisco in 2009, recently valued at $51bn, it has been banned in Berlin, and been the subject of protests in London, Paris and Madrid. What is it?

59. Mesopotamia mostly equates to which modern-day country?

60. Since 2001 Roger Tilling has been the voice of which TV show?

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Answers:

51 Venues of the next two Commonwealth Games; 52 Whovians; 53 Diane Abbot; 54 George Orwell; 55 The Press Complaints Commission; 56 Harold Wilson and Edward Heath (both 1916); 57 Frank Zappa; 58 Uber; 59 Iraq; 60 University Challenge.

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