Which crime writer, creator of Inspector Wexford, was made a life peer in 1997?

Which Clint Eastwood western won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1992? Which U.S. president was born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, on the Fourth of July? Which NBA team began in Vancouver in 1995 before moving to Memphis in 2001? The Westchester Cup, first played in 1886, is a polo rivalry between the United States and which country? Which senator represented California alongside Dianne Feinstein from 1993 to 2017? In which 1939 film did Bette Davis play Queen Elizabeth I opposite Errol Flynn? What is the largest desert in Australia? Cecil Rhodes built which South African diamond company, named for the farm where its mine began?