MASTERQUIZ

1. What name is given to the white fur derived from the winter coat of the ermine?

2. The years of birth and death of novelist W. Somerset Maugham exactly matched those of which prominent British politician?

3. What kind of rackets were used to hit the shuttlecock in an early form of badminton?

4. With which instrument is teenage musician Sheku Kanneh-Mason associated?

5. An extension to which London Underground line is concealed by two false frontages in Leinster Gardens, Bayswater?

6. In which battle did Roman general Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal’s Carthaginian forces, ending the Second Punic War in 202BC?

1 Miniver. 2 Winston Churchill. 3 Battledores. 4 Cello. 5 Metropolitan. 6 Zama.