Off the Shelf

St. Leger.
(Don’t be fooled by date).
Image Wikimedia Commons

Today’s questions follow a theme.

One

The St Leger, the oldest of Britain’s five Classic races, is the last of the five to be run each year, and its distance is longer than any of the other four. In what decade was it first ran?


Two

What J.K. Rowling book was first published in the U.K. in June 1997, and under what title was the same book published the following year in the U.S.?


Three

What geometric shape is also the path of the Earth around the Sun, and how far approximately, in miles or km, does the Earth travel on that path in a year?


Four

The cover of which debut studio album from 1969 depicts the Hindenburg exploding?


Five

What tennis Grand Slam takes place in a stadium which is named after a World War 1 fighter pilot who was killed in action?


Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.


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