Name The Year: William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair)?

Questions

hat is known as the ship of the desert?

What river in the world is the longest?

What sport do you shag flies in?

This Roman emperor had his own mother executed, murdered his wife, killed a girl who wouldn't marry him, and then put many Christian's to death after accu?

Coimetrophobia is the fear of ____?