16 The river Liffey flows into which sea?
17 In which English county is the town of Bromsgrove?
18 What is the form of address for an Italian married woman?
19 What is the capital of New York State?
20 Of what are there 100 in a US dollar?
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QUIZ 9 – Pot Luck (#ulink_2a1e6fe4-e791-5eb9-9339-c82b3fd0dbf9)
1 What term is given for lines that run from the centre to the edge of a circle?
2 Tenerife is part of which island group?
3 What collective name is given to foods such as fusilli and linguine?
4 With which city is the Sally Lunn bun associated?
5 How many stomachs has a cow?
6 In 2011, which band had a hit with Paradise?
7 What is the chemical symbol for iodine?
8 Who wrote the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey?
9 In the English alphabet, what is the 13th letter?
10 What is a sheepshank?
11 On which part of your body would you wear a homburg?
12 If you betray your country what crime do you commit?
13 In the Bible, who was the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth?
14 What was Elvis Presley’s first chart hit in the UK?
15 Cape Canaveral was formerly known by what name?
16 Who directed the 1966 thriller Torn Curtain?
17 Which orchestra was founded in Manchester in 1858?
18 What term is given to the young of a whale?
19 Who played the title role in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom?
20 Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
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QUIZ 10 – History (#ulink_27b4fffa-21e6-52fc-8e74-f6f2349e3409)
1 What was an old five-shilling piece called?
2 In 1913, what make and model of car became the first to be mass-produced on an assembly line?
3 To which island was Napoleon first exiled?
4 What was the surname of Henry VIII’s sixth wife?
5 Which religious movement in the Christian church was founded by brothers Charles and John Wesley?
6 Ukraine and Belarus were a part of which country until 1991?
7 Which WWII battleship shared its name with a 19th-century German statesman?
8 Which “metallic” period occurred around 1000BC?
9 During which war did the Battle of Marston Moor take place?
10 Which November 11, 1918 event is marked every year on that date?
11 What name is given to a member of the pre-conquest population of Mexico?
12 During which war did Operation Desert Storm take place?
13 What nationality was explorer Vasco da Gama?
14 William of Orange was married to which queen?
15 Who was the longest-reigning British king?
16 In which century was Christopher Columbus born?
17 What was East Germany’s official name?
18 The Getty family made their fortune from which commodity?
19 Who was victorious at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314?