Hom ework for grown-ups

Everything you learnt at school ... but can you remember?

1 Margaret and Helen Schlegel are the female protagonists of which early-20th-century English novel?

a) Women In Love by DH Lawrence b) Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley c) To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf d) Howards End by EM Forster

2 In geometry, what is the name given to the area of a circle created by a chord and its corresponding arc?

a) Sector b) Tranche c) Segment d) Slice

3 Which nymph falls in love with Narcissus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses?

a) Clytie b) Echo c) Daphne d) Ligeia

4 What type of male singing voice did Frank Sinatra have?

a) Countertenor b) Tenor c) Baritone d) Bass

5 At which battle did Edward I of England defeat William Wallace in 1298?

a) Falkirk b) Stirling Bridge c) Lanark d) Bannockburn

6 Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli was a native of which Italian city?

a) Venice b) Siena c) Milan d) Florence

7 What is the Italian word for Summer?

a) Primavera b) Sole c) Raccolto d) Estate

8 Which word describes a river or stream that is dry except in the rainy season?

a) Wadi b) Barchan c) Butte d) Loess

9 The concept of pantheism, a belief that God and the cosmos are identical, is associated with which 17th-century philosopher?

a) John Locke b) Baruch Spinoza c) René Descartes d) Thomas Hobbes

10 Which of the following is not an event in the heptathlon?

a) Javelin b) Shot put c) Discus d) High jump