1. What is the capital of?

a. Albania. d. Wales.

b. Alaska. e. South-West Africa.

c. Indonesia.

2. Who wrote the following lines and what is the next line in each case?

a. She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven.

b. There was a shout about my ears.

c. Curs'd be the man, the poorest wretch in life.

d. Oh wearisome condition of humanity!

e. Yes, I ken John Peel and Ruby too!

3. What have the following in common?

a. Craven Cottage, Meadow Lane, The Valley, St. Andrews.

b. George, Harris, J. and Montmorency.

c. Barkston Ash, Isle of Thanet, Spelthorne, The Wrekin.

d. The Bear, The Hunt, The Absent-minded Person, The Surprise. e. Vindobala, Hunnum, Camboglanna, Petriana.

4. What is?

a. The largest town on the main railway line between King's Cross and Newcastle upon Tyne.

b. The farthest town from a railway line in England (and what is the distance?).

c. The destination of the A.40 road from London.

d. The distance between the mainlands of Asia and America.

e. The sea into which the western end of the Panama Canal opens.

5. What well-known novels open with the following passages and who was the author of each?

a. I have noticed that when someone asks for you on the telephone and, finding you out, leaves a message begging you to call him up the moment you come in, and it's important, the matter is more often important to him than to you.

b. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. . . .

c. I was ever of opinion that the honest man who married and brought up a large family did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

d. He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.

e. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet. powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.

6. What are or were the other names of?

a. The Governor of Barataria. d. Rubella.

b. Nicholas Brakespeare. e. Ulianov and c. Eric Blair. Bronstein. 8. A miscellany: a. How many movements does (i) a concerto, (ii) a symphony, usually contain?

b. What are the primary colours of (i) light, (ii) paint? c. What, according to Kant, is the 'one categorical imperative'?

d. Who said, do not agree with a word that you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it'? e. How many of Shakespeare's plays have an alternative title?

9. Who was the first person to?

a. Sail through the North-West Passage. b. Sail through the North-East Passage. c. Arrive home in command of a ship that had sailed round the world.

d. Make an individual score of 400 runs in first-class cricket.

e. Hear the words `hekina degul'.

10. Who said or wrote the following, and in what connection?

a. Eating pâtés de foie gras to the sound of trumpets. b. It probably began upon mud or sand in warm sunlit shallow brackish water.

c. The perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

d. I shall hear in Heaven.

c. Nature is such that it is- impossible to determine absolute motion by any experiment whatever.

What have the following in common?

a. Beethoven, Charles Lamb, Schopenhauer, Horace b. Basildon, Bracknell, Cwmbran, Glenrothes.

c. Republic of Ireland, Albania, Jordan, Spain. d. Axerophthol, aneurine, ascorbic acid, calciferol.

e. Ayrshire Lassie, Souter, Laird and Lady, Old 14th.

12. Who was born at these places in the year given?

a. Amsterdain, 1632. d. Hamburg, 1833. b. Eaglesfleld (Cumberland), 1766. e. Taganrog, 1860.

c. Grenoble, 1783.

13. Who lived at?

a. Chalfont St. Giles. d. 15 Clifford's Inn.

b. 205 Waterloo Road, Cobridge. c. Mas a Tierra.

c. Craigenputtock.

14. Who?

a. Painted the Mona Lisa.

b. Modelled the Eros in Piccadilly Circus.

c. Wrote thelnusic of 'Rule Britannia.'

d. Wrote the words of 'Annie Laurie.'

e. Played the 'Harry Lime Theme' in the film 'The Third Man.'

15. What have the following words in common?

a. Brilliant, Diamond, Pearl, Minion.

b. Cordoba, 1ev, sol, sucre.

c. Cabo, kosa, ras, rhu.

d. Onomatapoiea, supersede, dessicate, innoculatel e. Labour, mute, route, shrewdness.

16. Where are or were the following? 11.