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1. Which city in the centre of Spain is the country's capital?
a) Madrid
b) Barcelona
c) Granada
d) Seville
2. Who wrote `Ghastly Good Taste, or a depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture.`?
a) Ove Arup and Partners
b) Richard Ingrams
c) John Betjeman
d) HRH The Prince of Wales
3. In which battle with the English was King James IV of Scotland killed?
a) Bannockburn
b) Roxburgh
c) Flodden
d) Solway Moss
4. Which novel for children by Louisa M Alcott was published 1869?
a) Little Women
b) Black Beauty
c) Little Lord Fauntleroy
d) Anne of Green Gables
5. What was the nickname of William Cody who toured the USA and Europe with a famous `Wild West` show?
a) Davy Crockett
b) Chief Sitting Bull
c) Wild Bill Hickok
d) Buffalo Bill
6. Who wrote the words `Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.`?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Christina Rossetti
c) Anna Akhmatova
d) Ernest Dowson
7. Who said: `Remember that time is money.`?
a) Benjamin Franklin
b) Richard Branson
c) Adolf Hitler
d) Clement Attlee
8. The Korean War began in 1950. In which year did it end?
a) 1954
b) 1956
c) 1951
d) 1953
9. In which country does the Indus rise?
a) Nepal
b) Tibet
c) Bangladesh
d) Bhutan
10. Where is Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the UK?
a) The Pennines in England
b) The Grampians in Scotland
c) The Mountains of Mourne in N Ireland
d) Snowdonia in Wales
11. Which Labour Party leader, twice British Prime Minister in the 1960s and 70s, was famous for smoking a pipe?
a) Neil Kinnock
b) John Smith
c) Ramsay Macdonald
d) Harold Wilson
12. Which Essex cricketer captained England on 34 occasions and became one of the select few to score 100 centuries in first-class cricket?
a) Graham Gooch
b) Mike Gatting
c) Ian Botham
d) David Gower
13. Who wrote the words `Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman pass by!`?
a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
b) W B Yeats
c) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
d) Thomas Malory
14. What is the other name of the Friendly Islands?
a) Salote Islands
b) Leeward Islands
c) Tonga
d) Solomon Islands
15. Of which country is Katmandu the capital?
a) Laos
b) Bhutan
c) Bangladesh
d) Nepal
16. In which country did the English poets Keats and Shelley both die?
a) Spain
b) Greece
c) Portugal
d) Italy
17. What 1923 peace settlement was agreed between Greece and Turkey after Turkey refused to accept the terms of the Treaty of Sčvres 1920?
a) Lateran Treaty
b) Treaty of Lausanne
c) Treaty of Breda
d) Treaty of Brétigny
18. Who wrote the words `Imperious Caesar, dead, and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.`?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Juvenal
c) Alexander Pope
d) Robert Browning
19. Which international aid agency is known as the Red Crescent in Muslim countries?
a) Oxfam
b) Save the Children
c) The Red Cross
d) Christian Aid
20. What is the capital of Paraguay?
a) Concepción
b) Asunción
c) Ciudad del Este
d) Pedro Juan Caballero
21. Who became king of Scotland in 1040 when he killed Duncan I, but was himself killed by Malcolm, Duncan's son in 1057?
a) Alexander I
b) Donald Bane
c) Robert I
d) Macbeth
22. Where in Britain is the tradition of `Up-Helly-Aa` practised?
a) Cornwall
b) Lerwick in the Shetland Islands
c) East Anglia
d) Isle of Man
23. What is the name of the autonomous district of the Russian Federation, which was part of the Krasnodar Province from 1936?
a) Moscow
b) St Petersburg
c) Adygea
d) Kiev
24. Who wrote the words `Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward.`?
a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
b) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
c) Matthew Arnold
d) Walter de la Mare
25. What was held in Seoul in 1988, in Barcelona in 1992, and in Atlanta in 1996?
a) Baseball World Series
b) Olympic Games
c) Formula 1 Grand Prix
d) Football World Cup
26. What is the title of Kenneth Grahame's book, on which A A Milne based his play Toad of Toad Hall?
a) Poop Poop
b) The Wraggle-taggle Gipsies
c) The Wind In the Willows
d) Duck's Ditty
27. Which duke of Addis Abbaba succeeded Mussolini as Italian prime minister in 1943?
a) Bettino Craxi
b) Aldo Moro
c) Giuseppe Garibaldi
d) Pietro Badoglio
28. What is the name of the colourless, unsweetened Greek liqueur flavoured with aniseed?
a) Ouzo
b) Kirsch
c) Raki
d) Slivovitz
29. Which group of islands is separated from Europe by the North Sea, the Strait of Dover, and the English Channel?
a) The British Isles
b) The Channel Isles
c) The Farne Isles
d) The Scilly Isles
30. Waterloo was the scene of a famous battle fought in 1815. In which country is it?
a) Austria
b) Belgium
c) Germany
d) Spain
31. In Australia, which series of events in 1975 centred on the dismissal of the Whitlam Labour government by the governor general?
a) 1975 crisis
b) Constitutional crisis
c) Governmental crisis
d) Whitlam crisis
32. Which Venetian explorer served the emperor Kublai Khan?
a) Henry the Navigator
b) Bartolomeu Dias
c) Ferdinand Magellan
d) Marco Polo
33. In which capital city are the ancient remains of the Pantheon, the Forum, and the Coliseum?
a) Constantinople
b) Cairo
c) Athens
d) Rome
34. Who wrote the Just So Stories and Kim?
a) Joseph Conrad
b) Daniel Defoe
c) Rudyard Kipling
d) Angela Carter
35. Boston Massachusetts has a famous baseball team. What is its name?
a) The Red Sox
b) The Black Caps
c) The Greenbacks
d) The Blue Shirts
36. Which fictitious private detective and his assistant Dr. Watson, were created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
a) Dick Barton
b) Perry Mason
c) Sherlock Holmes
d) Maigret
37. In which type of Japanese drama do men take all the parts ... in the interests of propriety?
a) Haniwa
b) Kabuki
c) No
d) Kano
38. Which bloody but indecisive battle of the American Civil War was fought 17 Sept 1862 at Antietam Creek, off the Potomac River?
a) Battle of Potomac
b) Battle of 1862
c) Battle of Yorktown
d) Battle of Antietam
39. In which US state are the towns of Fairbanks and Anchorage?
a) Alaska
b) Florida
c) Rhode Island
d) Kentucky
40. What US light machine gun used for infantry support was adopted by the US Army 1917 and was standard issue until the early 1950s?
a) Benet-Mercie gun
b) Bren gun
c) Becker gun
d) Browning automatic rifle
41. Of which range of English hills is Coombe Hill near Wendover, Buckinghamshire, the highest point?
a) Cheviots
b) Peak District
c) Chilterns
d) Cotswolds
42. Which French author wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days?
a) Anthony Trollope
b) Walter de la Mare
c) Victor Hugo
d) Jules Verne
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