Weekend Herald - Canvas

Quiz

- Compiled by Mark Fryer

1

What is extracted from the plant papaver somniferum?

2

“Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks” — two seldom-sung lines from which famous song?

3

How many US presidents have been assassinat­ed?

4

Music-streaming service Spotify originated in which country?

5

1 Infinite Loop is the address of which company’s HQ?

6

A coney is an old-fashioned word for what animal?

7

Carolina reaper, Trinidad scorpion, Scotch bonnet – varieties of what?

8

Julius Caesar was killed on the Ides of March. What date is that on the modern calendar?

9

Harper Seven is the daughter of which celebrity couple?

10

If you’re strolling along the “Paris end”, which street are you on?

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