MINI QUIZ

1. Which Australian tennis player won the men's singles at Wimbledon in 1987? 2. How many arms does an octopus have? 3. Which Irish novelist wrote The Country Girls, Night and Returning?

4. What name is given to a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler fragments by chemical means and that appears in a periodic table?

5. What name is given to a mathematician employed by an insurance company to calculate premiums?

6. Which figure in Greek mythology unwittingly killed his father and married his mother?

7. Which 18th-century Italian adventurer and spy was famous for his many romantic liaisons, recorded in his memoirs?

8. By what name is the contentious collection of sculptures from the Parthenon in the British Museum that the nation acquired in 1816 known?

9. Which Irish dramatist wrote The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock?

10. With which musical instrument was Pablo Casals chiefly associated?