MINI QUIZ

1. Which British adventure novelist wrote King Solomon's Mines and She?

2. What is the capital of Venezuela?

3. What is the name for the decay caused by fungi attacking wood with a high moisture content?

4. Which legless European lizard is also called the blindworm?

5. What was the name for a Roman marketplace that was the civic centre of a town?

6. What was the world's tallest building before the completion of the World Trade Center?

7. Which manned US space station was launched in 1973 and fell to earth in 1979?

8. Which poet and artist wrote The Book of Nonsense and popularised the limerick?

9. Who is the patron saint of artists and doctors?

10. Which African insect transmits sleeping sickness?