Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below
1. Which singer’s 1997 album Romanza is the bestselling Italian LP in history?
2. Which type of cross is used by the St John Ambulance in its logo?
3. Likoma and Chizumulu are inhabited islands in which African lake?
4. The root of salsify is noted for having a taste similar to what, giving it an alternate name?
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5. Which toy inventor was elected as Conservative MP for Everton in 1931?
6. Which lutenist composed the song Flow My Tears and the instrumental work Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares?
7. Which pair of brothers wrote The Dangerous Book for Boys (2006)?
8. Manufactured by Honeywell International, Xtratuf is a brand of neoprene what?
9. Joseph Malin is said to have opened the first example of which shop in Cleveland Street, London, in 1860?
10. The citric acid cycle is also known by the name of which German-born biochemist?
11. Which son of the emperor Claudius and Messalina was poisoned by Nero in AD55?
12. A red fire extinguisher with blue label denotes which type of extinguisher?
13. Which First World War veteran’s poem Mattina / Morning consists entirely of the lines: “M’illumino / D’immenso”?
14. In 1897, “Gentleman Jim” Corbett lost the heavyweight championship to which Cornish-born boxer?
15. Who is the pictured German singer?
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Answers
1. Andrea Bocelli
2. Maltese cross or the white eight-pointed cross of St John
3. Lake Malawi
4. Oysters — it is also called the oyster plant
5. Frank Hornby
6. John Dowland
7. Conn and Hal Iggulden
8. Boots
9. Fish and chip shop
10. Hans Adolf Krebs — who discovered the Krebs cycle
11. Britannicus
12. Dry powder
13. Giuseppe Ungaretti
14. Bob Fitzsimmons
15. Heino (born Heinz Georg Kramm)