Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1. According to Warren Buffett: “The more you learn, the more you’ll . . .” what?
2. Which country occupies the easternmost island in the Caribbean?
3. With 26 victories, who was America’s most successful fighter ace in the First World War?
4. Who designed the Fiat Nuova 500 that was launched in July 1957?
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5. Which city in L’Aquila is known as the home of both the poet Ovid and confetti (sugared almonds)?
6. Which James Bond star’s Bond girls included Maryam d’Abo, Carey Lowell and Talisa Soto?
7. Which Apollo 13 astronaut said: “Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here”?
8. Irving Stone’s novel Love is Eternal is about which 19th-century American couple?
9. Labour’s only Scottish MP, Ian Murray, represents which constituency?
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10. Dipsomania refers to an uncontrollable craving for what?
11. The French model Amanda Lear was a later muse of which Spanish painter?
12. Located near Nazareth, Mount Tabor is believed by many to be the site where Jesus underwent which event?
13. Who has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize?
14. Which Norwegian skier won his first Olympic gold in the Super-G at Albertville in 1992?
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15. What is the pictured lizard?
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Answers
1. “. . . earn”
2. Barbados
3. Eddie Rickenbacker
4. Dante Giacosa
5. Sulmona
6. Timothy Dalton
7. Jack Swigert
8. Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln
9. Edinburgh South
10. Alcohol
11. Salvador Dalí
12. The Transfiguration
13. Youyou Tu — co-recipient of the 2015 medicine or physiology prize
14. Kjetil André Aamodt
15. Komodo dragon