Can You Answer 10 Of The Toughest Questions From University Challenge?

"In the darkening twilight I saw a lone star hover gem-like above the bay."
This was the last diary entry of which explorer, written on January 5th 1922 at Grytviken in South Georgia?

An ancient temple site near Luxor in Egypt, the director of Lolita and Dr Strangelove, and the electronic music group whose albums include Autobahn and Computer Love all have names that begin and end with which letter of the alphabet?

"The Strangest Man" by Graham Farmelo is a 2009 biography of which scientist, who applied Einstein's Theory of Relativity to quantum mechanics in order to describe the spin of an electron? In 1933 he shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Erwin Schrödinger?

Often featuring in photographic illusions caused by forced perspective, which structure was begun in 1173 as the third and final structure of its city's cathedral complex? Designed to be 56 metres high, improvements to the foundations since 1990 have diminished its distinctive aberration

The seduction of Europa by Zeus, after he had assumed the form of a bull and carried her on his back to Crete, resulted in the birth of which king, whose own wife, Pasiphaë, later fell in love with a bull?

Which Shakespearean comedy is the source of the opera by Berlioz entitled Beatrice and Benedict?

Which novel, first published in serial form from 1914 to 1915, begins: "Once upon a time and a very good time it was…"?

The title character of which 1972 David Bowie album was inspired by the British rock ’n’ roll singer Vince Taylor?

What surname links a bagpipe-playing Canterbury pilgrim in Chaucer; a Henry James novella of 1878; the author of the trilogy Sexus, Plexus and Nexus, and the playwright husband of Marilyn Monroe?