2. What is the Russian word for `dissolute` and the nickname given to Grigory Efimovich, the illiterate son of a peasant, who had influence over the tsarina? a) Babushka b) Svejk c) Rasputin d) Philip Neri
5. Which 19th-century English poet, famous for his odes including `Ode to a Nightingale` and `Ode to a Grecian Urn`, died prematurely at the age of 25? a) Shelley b) Byron c) Wordsworth d) Keats
20. Syracuse is the name of a city in New York State, USA, and also the name of an ancient port of which Mediterranean island? a) Sardinia b) Crete c) Sicily d) Malta
24. In the 17th and 18th centuries, what was the name of the form of satirical comedy parodying a particular play or dramatic genre? a) Arabesque b) Pantomime c) Masque d) Burlesque
36. Who wrote the words `When Britain first, at heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain: `Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.``? a) Georg Friedrich Handel b) Thomas Arne c) Alexander Pope d) James Thomson