5 minute quiz

1. Titania and Oberon, moons of the planet Uranus, were named after characters in what play by Shakespeare?

2. The pineapple originated where: Asia, South America or the Pacific Islands?

3. In what country would you find Transylvania, setting for the gothic horror novel Dracula?

4. What Abba hit song had a title inspired by a Morse code signal?

5. According to a popular saying, what is the thief of time?

6. The novels The Power of One, The Covenant and Cry, the Beloved Country were set in what country?

7. What do the initials of the New Zealand Army’s SAS unit stand for?

8. Comintern, a global political organisation in the 20th century, was an amalgamation of what two words?

9. Was Mungo Park an artist, an explorer or a general?

10. The 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes described the typical man’s life as ‘‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish’’ and what else?