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1. What is the real name of the English author who also writes as Barbara Vine?
a) Eleanor Hibbert
b) Ruth Rendell
c) Isabella Gregory
d) Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston
2. Until 1972, the Boyoma Falls on the upper Zaïre River were named after a British explorer. What were they called?
a) Livingstone Falls
b) Park Falls
c) Stanley Falls
d) Speke Falls
3. Who said `The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.`?
a) Sir Edward Grey
b) Edmund Burke
c) Prince Metternich
d) Napoleon Bonaparte
4. Who wrote the words `There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men;`?
a) Lord Byron
b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
c) Henry Newbolt
d) Alfred Noyes
5. Which entertainer began his career as dancing partner to Mistinguett at the Folies-Bergère?
a) Bruce Forsyth
b) Maurice Chevalier
c) Fred Astaire
d) Liberace
6. What is the capital of Norway?
a) Trondheim
b) Bergen
c) Stavanger
d) Oslo
7. Which two collections of Icelandic literature constitute the chief source of Old Norse mythology?
a) Sveinsson's Edda
b) Sturluson Sagas
c) Edda
d) Island Sagas
8. Which Belgian author created Inspector Maigret?
a) Charles Perrault
b) Michel de Montaigne
c) Marguerite Duras
d) Georges Simenon
9. What is a positive response indicating agreement?
a) Ambivalent
b) Negative
c) Dogmatic
d) Affirmative
10. Who wrote the words `How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree.`?
a) John Dryden
b) Alexander Pope
c) Ben Jonson
d) Andrew Marvell
11. What is mined at Kimberley, in South Africa's northern cape?
a) Diamonds
b) Coal
c) Gold
d) Tin
12. Which fruit was grown in the orchard, according to the title of a Chekov play?
a) Cherry
b) Pear
c) Greengage
d) Apple
13. What is the capital of Armenia?
a) Kumayri
b) Yerevan
c) Baku
d) Ashkhabat
14. Who said `I feel that I am reserved for some end or other.`?
a) Adolf Hitler
b) Mother Theresa of Calcutta
c) Robert Clive
d) Brigitte Bardot
15. What is the Catalan name for Catalonia?
a) La Mancha
b) Castile
c) Euskal Herria
d) Catalunya
16. What is the term for a mounted soldier who carried an infantry weapon such as a 'dragon', or short musket, as used by the French army in the 16th century?
a) Dragoon
b) Musketeer
c) Doughboy
d) Anzac
17. Which tundra region of Canada is west of Hudson Bay?
a) Birch Plane
b) Harney Basin
c) Barren Lands/Grounds
d) Brooks Range
18. What did Alexander Fleming discover?
a) Vaccination
b) Germs
c) Analgesics
d) Penicillin
19. Which English author, born in India, wrote Puck of Pook's Hill?
a) Rudyard Kipling
b) Algernon Swinburne
c) Thomas Macaulay
d) Walter Pater
20. Whose book The Tale of Peter Rabbit was followed by The Tailor of Gloucester and many other stories based on observations of pets and wildlife?
a) Lucy Atwell
b) Alison Uttley
c) Enid Blyton
d) Beatrix Potter
21. Which US playwright wrote Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple?
a) Eugene O'Neill
b) Neil Simon
c) Edward Albee
d) Arthur Miller
22. Arabic and which other language are the official languages of Chad?
a) French
b) English
c) Italian
d) Portuguese
23. What is a nation's fighting aircraft and the organisation that maintains them called?
a) Territorial army
b) Army
c) Air force
d) Air cadets
24. Who said `What if someone gave a war`?
a) Spike Milligan
b) Allen Ginsberg
c) e e cummings
d) John Lennon
25. What French river rises in Creuse département and flows into the River Loire below Tours?
a) Charente
b) Cher
c) Rhône
d) Saône
26. What was the surname of the Chilean revolutionary known as `the Liberator of Chile`?
a) Bernardo
b) O'Higgins
c) MacWilliams
d) Zapata
27. What started at the baker's shop in London's Pudding Lane in 1666?
a) The Great Fire of London
b) The English Civil War
c) The Norman invasion
d) The South Sea Bubble
28. What name refers to Salvador Allende's presidency of Chile 1970-73?
a) Chilean Renewal
b) Chilean Revolution
c) Chilean Reformation
d) Chilean Restoration
29. Which is the largest of the Canary islands?
a) Tenerife
b) Lanzerote
c) Gran Canaria
d) Las Palmas
30. In the Seven Weeks' War, what was the name of the Austrian victory over the Italians 24 June 1866?
a) Battle of Saratoga
b) Battle of Tannenberg
c) Battle of Adrianople
d) Battle of Custozza
31. Which is the athletics field event in which only men are allowed to compete?
a) Hammer
b) Javelin
c) Discus
d) Shot Put
32. How many times would the UK fit into the Russian Federation?
a) 40 times
b) 70 times
c) 50 times
d) 100 times
33. Which city in West Yorkshire is home to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television?
a) Leeds
b) Wakefield
c) Bradford
d) York
34. In which present-day country were the battles of Lexington and Concord fought in 1775?
a) Germany
b) USA
c) France
d) Canada
35. Which French king was known as `the Sun King`?
a) Louis XVI
b) Hugh Capet
c) Charles VII
d) Louis XIV
36. What former gold-mining area in Yukon, Canada, was named after the river valley where gold was found 1896?
a) Klondike
b) Coppermine
c) Fraser
d) Murray
37. After the English Civil War, what was the title of the officers appointed by Oliver Cromwell 1655 to oversee the 12 military districts into which England had been divided?
a) Field marshal
b) Lance corporal
c) Man-at-arms
d) Major-general
38. Who wrote the words `Brevity is the soul of wit.`?
a) Noël Coward
b) William Shakespeare
c) Alexander Pope
d) Francis Bacon
39. Which English playwright wrote the television series Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective?
a) David Leland
b) Alan Bleasdale
c) Dennis Potter
d) Mike Leigh
40. On which river is Vienna situated?
a) Oder
b) Rhône
c) Rhine
d) Danube
41. On which inland sea do the ports of Astrakhan and Baku lie?
a) Caspian Sea
b) Dead Sea
c) Red Sea
d) Black Sea
42. Which UK Act of Parliament 1880 obtained for workers or their families a right to compensation from employers whose negligence resulted in industrial injury or death at work?
a) Employer's Liability Act
b) Employers and Workmen Act
c) Worker's Compensation Act
d) Articles of Association
43. What was the nickname of Jean-Claude Duvalier, president of Haiti 1971-86?
a) Baby Doc
b) Papa Doc
c) Baby Doll
d) Junior
44. What is a megalith?
a) One million tons
b) A large prehistoric stone monument
c) A measure of memory capacity
d) A unit of electrical resistance
45. On which Italian island is the active volcano, Mount Etna?
a) Capri
b) Sicily
c) Majorca
d) Crete
46. Which novel was written by US writer James M Cain in 1945?
a) Double Indemnity
b) The Postman Always Rings Twice
c) Mildred Pierce
d) The Pursuit of Love
47. What is the Celtic language spoken on the Isle of Man?
a) Cornish
b) Breton
c) Welsh
d) Manx
48. What is another term for quotation marks?
a) Brackets
b) Inverted commas
c) Colons
d) Full stop
49. In which country was Simón Bolívar born?
a) Venezuela
b) Portugal
c) Argentina
d) Ecuador
50. Which town in western Nigeria is traditionally the oldest of the Yoruba kingdoms in the region?
a) Onitsha
b) Ife
c) Sokoto
d) Kano
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