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Here are the quiz questions I had to replace because of potentially offensive content...

1 Sharing her surname with a Derbyshire tart, who was called “the thinking man’s crumpet” by Frank Muir? 

2 Which 1997 film was director Paul Thomas Anderson’s attempt to make the “Raging Bull of pornography”? 

3 The Bada Bing strip club was a hangout in which US TV drama (1999-2007)?

4 In a 1931 speech attacking the press barons Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook, what did Stanley Baldwin describe as “the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages”?  

 
5 Which French sprinter was the first White athlete to break the 10-second barrier in the 100m?

6 Danish-Chilean artist Marco Evaristti is best known for putting which live animal in a blender? 

7 John Knox (David Tennant) calls the title monarch in which 2018 film “a fornicator – with a monstrous lust”?

8 A 1980 Saturday Night Live monologue, in which Steve Martin mentions “boobs” and “golden bozos”, inspired the name of what US restaurant chain?

9 Which Nordic state was the first country in the world to ban stripping and lap dancing for feminist reasons?
 

10 Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind and Geek Stink Breath by Green Day are songs about addiction to which drug?

11 The self-proclaimed “rudest, crudest, lewdest, drunkest band in Christendom”, which Cheshire punk rock band released the 1985 album Beer & Sex & Chips n Gravy? 

12 The pictured Francisco Macías Nguema – “The Pol Pot of Africa” – was which country’s first president?

 

13: "Which Polish anthropologist wrote The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929)?

14 In 1938, Albert Hofmann first synthesised which psychedelic drug by isolating compounds in ergot?

15 Which Arthur Miller play features the quote: "A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!"?

16 In 1898, Bayer began marketing diacetylmorphine as a cough suppressant under which trademark name? 

17 Which wife of Argentine president Juan Perón was called “a common prostitute” by Jorge Luis Borges?

18 Elected as a Tory MP in 1950, who did Roy Hattersley call the “Alf Garnett of British politics”?"

19 Which US travel author wrote that Butlins in Bognor Regis “had the feel of a concentration camp”?

20 Rab Butler described which Tory prime minister as “half mad baronet, half beautiful woman”?

21 George Orwell wrote “One cannot really be a Catholic & grown up” about which English novelist?".

22 Ken Russell called which 1971 film “the story of a homosexual who marries a nymphomaniac”?

23 Which Taskmaster series 13 champion launched the monthly Wacky Racists comedy night in 2018? 

24 Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng (b 1991) is widely known for the character Uncle... who?

Answers

1 Joan Bakewell 2 Boogie Nights 3 The Sopranos 4 Power without responsibility 5 Christophe Lamaitre 6 Goldfish 7 Mary, Queen of Scots 8 Hooters 9 Iceland 10 Crystal meth 11 The Macc Lads 12 Equatorial Guinea 13 Bronisław Malinowski 14 LSD 15 After the Fall 16 Heroin 17 Eva "Evita" Perón 18 Enoch Powell 19 Paul Theroux 20 Anthony Eden 21 Evelyn Waugh 22 The Music Lovers 23 Sophie Duker 24  Roger