Five-minute quiz

1. On which floor of the Beehive would you find the prime minister’s office?

2. What is mined at Lightning Ridge, in inland New South Wales?

3. What word usually means prejudice but may also refer to the way a ball rolls in the game of bowls or an edge cut obliquely across the weave of a fabric?

4. What influential British daily paper has the initials FT?

5. The ancient monument known as the Rosetta Stone originated where: Greece, Rome or Egypt?

6. What is distinctive about the Hampshire and Suffolk breeds of sheep?

7. Where would you be most likely to hear reference to a porte cochere: in architecture, cooking or ballet?

8. The car manufacturer SEAT is based in what country?

9. What long-running TV comedy series has a theme song that starts: ‘‘Our whole universe was in a hot dense state’’?

10. An emetic is a substance that causes people to do what?