Five-minute quiz

1. His first name was Niccolo and he wrote a famous 16th-century work on the dark arts of politics and diplomacy. What was his surname?

2. What word can precede cop, go or play?

3. A symphony orchestra consists of four sections: strings, woodwinds, brass and what else?

4. In a 19th-century nursery rhyme, the Muffin Man lived in what London lane?

5. Wandering, sooty and royal are species of what?

6. What British footballer-turned-actor made his screen debut in the 1998 crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?

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